The center position is an excellent source of rebounds, blocks, and field-goal percentage, however centers are also well-known for their horrendous free-throw percentage. The following are our recommended draft rankings for centers, which take into account projected total points as well as upside and risk. The statistical categories are based primarily on a rotisserie scoring format, which typically favors well-balanced players, but no matter what your league settings this list will be a valuable reference as you prepare for draft day.

Be sure to check out our center ranking videos for Tiers 1-4 and Tiers 5-7.

2009-2010 Center Rankings

Rank	Player	TM	GP	FG%	FT%	3PM	REB	AST	STL	BLK	PTS
1	Dwight Howard	ORL	79	.572	.594	0.0	13.8	1.4	1.0	2.9	20.6
2	Mehmet Okur	UTA	72	.485	.817	1.3	7.7	1.7	0.8	0.7	17.0
3	Andris Biedrins	GS	77	.578	.551	0.0	11.2	2.0	1.0	1.5	11.9
4	Marcus Camby	LAC	62	.512	.725	0.0	11.1	2.0	0.8	2.1	10.3
5	Brook Lopez	NJ	82	.531	.793	0.0	8.1	1.0	0.5	1.8	13.0
6	Andrea Bargnani	TOR	78	.450	.831	1.5	5.3	1.2	0.4	1.2	15.4
7	Andrew Bynum	LAL	50	.560	.707	0.0	8.0	1.4	0.4	1.8	14.3
8	Nene Hilario	DEN	77	.604	.723	0.0	7.8	1.4	1.2	1.3	14.6
9	Al Horford	ATL	67	.525	.727	0.0	9.3	2.4	0.8	1.4	11.5
10	Luis Scola	HOU	82	.531	.760	0.0	8.8	1.5	0.8	0.1	12.7
11	Emeka Okafor	NOR	82	.561	.593	0.0	10.1	0.6	0.6	1.7	13.2
12	Andrew Bogut	MIL	36	.577	.571	0.0	10.3	2.0	0.6	1.0	11.7
13	Marc Gasol	MEM	82	.530	.733	0.0	7.4	1.7	0.8	1.1	11.9
14	Kevin Love	MIN	81	.459	.789	0.0	9.1	1.0	0.4	0.6	11.1
15	Rasheed Wallace	BOS	66	.419	.772	1.7	7.4	1.4	0.9	1.3	12.0
16	Spencer Hawes	SAC	77	.466	.662	0.5	7.1	1.9	0.6	1.2	11.4
17	Shaquille O’Neal	CLE	75	.609	.595	0.0	8.4	1.7	0.7	1.4	17.8
18	Chris Kaman	LAC	31	.528	.680	0.0	8.0	1.5	0.5	1.5	12.0
19	Greg Oden	POR	61	.564	.637	0.0	7.0	0.5	0.4	1.1	8.9
20	Tyson Chandler	CHA	45	.565	.579	0.0	8.7	0.5	0.3	1.2	8.8
21	Brendan Haywood	WAS	6	.480	.476	0.0	7.3	1.3	0.7	2.5	9.7
22	Antonio McDyess	SA	62	.510	.698	0.0	9.8	1.3	0.7	0.8	9.6
23	Jermaine O’Neal	MIA	68	.474	.788	0.0	6.4	1.8	0.4	2.0	13.3
24	Kendrick Perkins	BOS	76	.577	.600	0.0	8.1	1.3	0.3	2.0	8.5
25	Roy Hibbert	IND	70	.471	.667	0.0	3.5	0.7	0.3	1.1	7.1
26	Drew Gooden	DAL	51	.468	.840	0.0	7.1	0.9	0.6	0.4	11.9
27	Joakim Noah	CHI	80	.556	.676	0.0	7.6	1.3	0.6	1.4	6.7
28	Brad Miller	CHI	70	.476	.824	0.3	7.8	3.3	0.7	0.5	11.9
29	Samuel Dalembert	PHI	82	.498	.734	0.0	8.5	0.2	0.4	1.8	6.4
30	Nenad Krstic	OKC	46	.469	.797	0.0	5.5	0.6	0.5	1.1	9.7
31	Channing Frye	PHO	63	.423	.722	0.2	2.2	0.4	0.3	0.3	4.2
32	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	CLE	65	.472	.799	0.2	7.5	1.0	0.4	1.3	12.9
33	Chris Andersen	DEN	71	.548	.718	0.0	6.2	0.4	0.6	2.5	6.4
34	Chris Wilcox	DET	62	.497	.564	0.0	4.5	0.8	0.4	0.3	7.2
35	Hasheem Thabeet	MEM	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
36	Eddy Curry	NY	3	1.000	.333	0.0	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.7
37	Joel Przybilla	POR	82	.625	.663	0.0	8.7	0.3	0.4	1.2	5.5
38	JaVale McGee	WAS	75	.494	.660	0.0	3.9	0.3	0.4	1.0	6.5

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