This is my stab at using Hoop Explorer’s preseason roster-building tool to make the optimist’s projection for this season, assuming Thomas and De Ridder adds even though that is not confirmed:
In case it’s hard to see, that adds up to #17 O, #46 D, and #27 overall. That feels optimistic to me, but this is an exercise in loosely informed dart throwing, so whatever.
You can use it yourself: hoop-explorer.com/TeamEditor?
A few notes on using:
- You need to remove Warley (lol). I also filtered out Lang without removing him.
- Tillis doesn’t start out on the roster for some reason, so you have to search for him at the bottom, with “Only Show Transfers” unticked.
- You need to manually build in Gertrude, GrĂĽnloh, and De Ridder (if you choose) and make some assumptions about their profile
- For GrĂĽnloh and De Ridder, I noticed that Sananda Fru had been projected at +4.4 RAPM, so I anchored off of that.
- I bumped up Chance a little on offense and bumped down a little on defense (the projections start out symmetrical for players with no data in the system).
- You can adjust any player’s offense and defense up-and-down, so you can adjust further, like bumping Onyenso’s defense up and bumping his offense down, etc.