Every offseason, basketball analysts help us predict the upcoming year with various and never disparate! rankings of off-seasons, players, teams and conferences. They help us understand trends, true values and team building successes and failures. Without basketball analysts, we would have no idea which teams are going to be good next year and which teams are going to be bad.
Or something like that.
Some analysts are really good, some are not. Some assumptions and predictions are based on good information, some are not. Some predictions are unduly influenced by confirmation bias, some are not.
But hey, it’s fun to consume these lists anyway.