A player in the top 10 will see a significantly smaller raw variance in rankings than a player ranked around 100. Instead, we can trim outliers and look at pure variance to see which players draw the most disagreement across the panel of experts. It just so happens that there is not an even distribution of rankings for Hamilton between 1 and 108 his rankings cluster around the 3 to 4 range. For example, Kyle Hamilton is the most consistently ranked player inside the top five in 2022, but he also happens to have the largest disparity between his best ranking (No. It’s important not to simply regard players who have a large difference between their best and worst rankings as polarizing. While the Consensus Board project does a great job of exploring experts’ opinions on players in the NFL Draft at large, it can also be used to tell us which players in the class are most controversial. One of the most useful insights we can get from gathering and comparing expert opinions is not necessarily where they agree, but where they disagree.
