Would be interesting to see, over time the "value" of each NBA draft slot. NFL teams have done analyses on this such that you know what your pick is worth if you decide to trade it away.
To do this for the NBA, I think you would limit it to The OAD era, since the era of when players go skip college left teams in even a bigger level of uncertainty of what they were getting. Although going back 20-25 years would give you a bigger sample size.
In a simplistic analysis, you could simply grade out each player take #1 overall on a 1-10 scale, and then average those. And then do that for the #2 picks, and so on.
Anyone with some spare time on your hands, feel free to show us what you come up with.
To do this for the NBA, I think you would limit it to The OAD era, since the era of when players go skip college left teams in even a bigger level of uncertainty of what they were getting. Although going back 20-25 years would give you a bigger sample size.
In a simplistic analysis, you could simply grade out each player take #1 overall on a 1-10 scale, and then average those. And then do that for the #2 picks, and so on.
Anyone with some spare time on your hands, feel free to show us what you come up with.
