I just wanted to talk a little bit about Tankathon's rating system. It has green dots for positive stats and characteristics and red for negative and if a stat is really good or bad you can get up to 4 dots. I first used it as a lazy man's way to get a quick look at a guy to see if it confirmed what i had seen or heard. Then I wondered if it was more valuable. Certainly not the end all, be all, but maybe a tool that some GMs should look at more. If I was a real scientist I would look at every player they ever rated and then look at their careers, but that's a lot so I just looked at a few things.
First I looked at some players who significantly out-performed where they were picked. Halliburton (12), SGA (11) and Brunson (33?). All three of these guys had ratios of about 3/1 positive on the tankathon stats and traits. Siakam (28) also about 3/1. Kawhi (15?) also 3/1. Draymond Green (2nd round) 2/1. Devin Booker (13) 2/1, Jimmy Butler , late first 3/2. Donovan Mitchell, Klay Thompson 2/1. Adebayo 55/45. Sabonis 4/1. Austin Reaves, who was undrafted was 1/1. Payton Pritchard 2/1. Josh Hart (30) 7/1,
I looked at a couple instances of players drafted right after each other. Scoot 1/2 and Amen Thompson 2/1. (they apparently try to standardize the stats somehow to match NCAA), Holmgren 10/1. Banchero 1/1.
I found some outliers: Khris Middleton 5/95. Deni Avdija 1/1, Chris Duarte 6/1, Wiseman had one of the best ratios ever but it was based on only three games and I'm guessing early games against inferior competition.
Busts that should have been seen: Adam Morrison 55/45, Drajon Bender 15/85.
Do these stats tell us anything about this year's class? I would be looking for 3/1 ratios minimum. After Flagg, I think Richardson has the best at 95/5. Murray-Boyles is 6/1. Knueppel 5/1. Essengue 4/1 Fleming and Sorbet quite good ratios but not the big totals. also Clifford 5/1. Coward 4.5/1
Guys who don't do so well: Dylan harper 3/2, Newell 1/1. Jakucionis 2/3, Fears 3/7, Demin 3/7, Traore 1/4. McNeely 1/6. Queen 1/1
I just decided to look up Doncic. they didn't have as many categories then or maybe due to international stats? but he was 6/1.
