Best drafting teams in the past 20 years

[Zeitgeister]

82games has a couple very interesting articles about the best drafting teams in the past 20 years, the best value picks in the past 20 years etc.

http://www.82games.com/nbadraftpicks.htm
http://www.82games.com/bestdraftingteams.htm
http://www.82games.com/starsandbusts.htm

The way it works is they take the average production for each pick 1-60, and compare it with the production that your team has gotten from that pick. They break down each teams drafting record in the past 20 years, and the Timberwolves are the 5th worst, San Antonio is ranked the 4th best. I know we had a little debate about this a few months back, whether San Antonio was simply lucky to draft the way they did, but the results speak for themselves the Twolves drafted horribly in the past 20 years.

Let's hope that we turned over a new leaf with David Kahn, and I think and hope we have. Anyway, the data is a very interesting read regardless.

[Klomp]

UH OH, Blazer fans won't like this:

Worst Value Picks 1989-2008 Career Stats vs. Expected Perf.
Player Season Pick G Min PTS REB AST RTG G Min PTS REB AST RTG
Nikoloz Tskitishvili 2002 5 172 11.3 2.9 1.8 0.7 5.4 -380 -17.4 -10.5 -3.1 -2.0 -15.7
Patrick O'Bryant 2006 9 63 5.0 1.7 1.3 0.3 3.3 -397 -18.1 -8.5 -3.6 -1.3 -13.3
Kwame Brown 2001 1 435 23.0 7.2 5.5 1.1 13.8 -120 -9.9 -9.4 -2.3 -1.6 -13.2
Saer Sene 2006 10 46 5.5 2.2 1.5 0.0 3.7 -451 -19.1 -8.0 -2.9 -2.2 -13.0
Serge Ibaka 2008 24 0 -350 -20.6 -7.9 -3.0 -2.1 -13.0
Jonathan Bender 1999 5 237 15.0 5.6 2.2 0.6 8.4 -315 -13.7 -7.8 -2.7 -2.1 -12.7
Fran Vasquez 2005 11 0 -389 -19.4 -7.5 -3.5 -1.4 -12.4
Shelden Williams 2006 5 167 14.9 4.7 4.2 0.4 9.3 -385 -13.8 -8.7 -0.7 -2.3 -11.8
Michael Olowokandi 1998 1 500 26.3 8.3 6.8 0.7 15.8 -55 -6.6 -8.3 -1.0 -2.0 -11.2
Darko Milicic 2003 2 305 17.6 5.6 4.1 0.7 10.4 -278 -12.0 -7.3 -1.8 -2.1 -11.2
Luke Jackson 2004 10 73 9.9 3.5 1.2 0.8 5.5 -424 -14.7 -6.7 -3.2 -1.4 -11.2
Pavel Podkolzine 2004 21 6 4.7 0.7 1.5 0.0 2.2 -378 -16.1 -7.1 -1.8 -1.9 -10.9
Frederic Weis 1999 15 0 -348 -17.4 -6.6 -2.9 -1.4 -10.8
Greg Oden 2007 1 37 23.2 8.6 7.2 0.7 16.5 -518 -9.7 -8.0 -0.6 -2.0 -10.5

[Calinks]

That was some good stuff.

Worst Value Picks 1989-2008 Career Stats vs. Expected Perf.
Player Season Pick G Min PTS REB AST RTG G Min PTS REB AST RTG
Nikoloz Tskitishvili 2002 5 172 11.3 2.9 1.8 0.7 5.4 -380 -17.4 -10.5 -3.1 -2.0 -15.7
Patrick O'Bryant 2006 9 63 5.0 1.7 1.3 0.3 3.3 -397 -18.1 -8.5 -3.6 -1.3 -13.3

LOL I wll never understand the POB wolf lovers.

[theGreatRC]

That was some good stuff.

Worst Value Picks 1989-2008 Career Stats vs. Expected Perf.
Player Season Pick G Min PTS REB AST RTG G Min PTS REB AST RTG
Nikoloz Tskitishvili 2002 5 172 11.3 2.9 1.8 0.7 5.4 -380 -17.4 -10.5 -3.1 -2.0 -15.7
Patrick O'Bryant 2006 9 63 5.0 1.7 1.3 0.3 3.3 -397 -18.1 -8.5 -3.6 -1.3 -13.3

LOL I wll never understand the POB wolf lovers.

Young. Tall. Center.

[big3_8_19_21]

But he sucks.

[theGreatRC]

I was just about to edit my post and add that.

[Calinks]

Man, Siler could probably whoop P.O.B.'s tail. I can't believe we actually acronymed the guy here and everything. I had to ask people what P.O.B. meant they were throwing it around so much at that time.

[Klomp]

Man, Siler could probably whoop P.O.B.'s tail. I can't believe we actually acronymed the guy here and everything. I had to ask people what P.O.B. meant they were throwing it around so much at that time.

A piece of something?

[4ho5ive]

Piece.Of.Bull$hit. it is far worse than Patrick O' Stewart.

[MN Die Hard]

That was some good stuff.

Worst Value Picks 1989-2008 Career Stats vs. Expected Perf.
Player Season Pick G Min PTS REB AST RTG G Min PTS REB AST RTG
Nikoloz Tskitishvili 2002 5 172 11.3 2.9 1.8 0.7 5.4 -380 -17.4 -10.5 -3.1 -2.0 -15.7
Patrick O'Bryant 2006 9 63 5.0 1.7 1.3 0.3 3.3 -397 -18.1 -8.5 -3.6 -1.3 -13.3

LOL I wll never understand the POB wolf lovers.

Young. Tall. Center.

And local.

[Esohny]

Piece.Of.Bull$hit. it is far worse than Patrick O' Stewart.

No mentioning his Awesomeness the Right Honorable Capt. Picard/Ebenezer Scrooge/Professor X in the same breath as the terrible player who shall not be named.

[walchy]

notice all the guys on that list are big men? expectations are always way too high for guys that are tall.

[shrink]

Its interesting, but I'd like to see more methodology.

MIN has had 40 picks and had a net lower total than 0.

Does the fact that MIN has had 6 more second round picks than first rounders make this the expected results?

For example, MIN has had 23 players ranked as "Deep Bench, Bust, or DNP" which is exactly the number of seconds they had. They had 17 "star, solid, and role-players" which is their number of 1sts.

To me, this makes MIN an average drafter, but again, I don't know enough about the methodology to state this as a fact.

[casey]

The biggest flaw right away is that he's comparing players to the average player at that pick #. That doesn't take into account how strong or weak of a draft it is. A good Wolves example would be Wally. Pretty decent numbers for the 6th pick. However he is barely a top 15 player in that draft. So in this system he was a good pick, but in reality he was actually a pretty bad pick. Plus the whole ppg+rpg+spg rating system. That's a terrible way to judge players.