Underdog Daily NBA Draft Rankings

These rankings are updated by 9am ET every day and then routinely updated throughout the day as injury news comes out. The rankings are pulled directly from our NBA model using our projections created from our data team. It’s important to stay up on injury news throughout the day while you’re drafting to find potential edges and great value that the field may not be accounting for!

Daily NBA Draft Strategy

• It’s important to try and find value while drafting. If a player has been getting drafted at 3rd overall all day and he’s still available at 6th, that’s great ADP value. There’s also value in drafting unique combinations where a player may have been getting drafted 6th overall and you take him 3rd. While these top drafted guys will be owned by a ton of the field, only a small percentage of the field will have that specific combination depending on who else you pair with him.
• Always draft for upside. These are large field tournaments so getting a player who has a safe floor but lacks a high ceiling could potentially get you a respectable finish, but we want first place!
• Injuries can play a huge factor in getting great value and high upside. If Derrick White and Jaylen Brown are questionable early in the day, for example, then players like Payton Pritchard will probably go undrafted or have a very low ADP. While relatively risky, you can draft these guys with one of your last few picks early in the day and then once White and Brown get ruled out, both Pritchard’s ADP will rise like crazy! Now that you have lineups with Pritchard in them with great value, you can steer away from him since his ADP has risen so much and start finding value elsewhere.
• There’s only 36 total players being drafted in each lobby. That means any player with an ADP of 36 or higher is primarily going undrafted and you could create HUGE leverage by taking just one of these guys with your last pick instead of the same players between the 30-36th ADP.