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Following potential 2014 draftees

Hotttnickkk said:
Pretty sure we can net a 3pt specialist out of the GSW pick anyway.

Embiid/Kanter
Favors
Hayward
Harris/Burks
Burke

That would definitely fit an Indiana-contender type team built on defense and inside scoring.
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The offense would be kinda ****ed up I think with both Embiid and Favors. Plus, I think the Jazz would still need some stronger perimeter players to match up with stronger wings who would destroy Hayward, Burks, Harris, etc. Would have some real potential fo sho tho, and could be a great team
 
So I did compare the performance of NBAdraft.net and draftexpress.com in 2013...

That's my result:

number of picks correct:
NBAdraft.net - 4
DX.com - 3
Bleacherreport - 1

number of predictions close by 2 places(e.g. predicted 3, picked 1 through 5)
NBAdraft.net - 12
DX.com - 12
Bleacherreport - 9

mean error per prediction(in draft slots)
NBAdraft.net: 6.5333(undrafted projections on Andre Roberson and Solomon Hill counted as 61st pick) - filtering out big misses(Every false prediction at least 15 slots wrong: Roberson, Hill, Nedovic, Goodwin) cleaned up mean: 2.962
DX.com: 4.766 - filtering out Goodwin, Nedovic, Hill: new mean: 3.444

variance
NBAdraft.net: 138 and after leaving out the same misses as in the mean calculation: 13.962
DX.com: 45,433 and 19 after cleaning up

So you can say that NBAdraft.net is considerably more inconsistent in picking the range of a player and they did more HUGE biffs and an equal amount of predictions very much off(more than 10 draft slots away)
Another thing that caught my mind is that DX sometimes had the team but was wrong on the pick they used(Predicting Andre Roberson to OKC with the 32nd instead of 26th, which was also OKC's) There were more of these kind of things but I'm too lazy to revisit it. Both services were comparably off on the lottery picks. If anything DX was slightly less off, but really we're talking inches here. But outside the lottery it becomes obvious that Givony is better connected with league sources than the guys running NBAdraft.net, whose performance really dropped, while Givony obviously had some insider infos he used in his final edition.
 
Hard to play half-court offense with no shooters. Especially against zone. Might wanna try Frankamp
 
BTP said:
So I did compare the performance of NBAdraft.net and draftexpress.com in 2013...

That's my result:

number of picks correct:
NBAdraft.net - 4
DX.com - 3
Bleacherreport - 1

number of predictions close by 2 places(e.g. predicted 3, picked 1 through 5)
NBAdraft.net - 12
DX.com - 12
Bleacherreport - 9

mean error per prediction(in draft slots)
NBAdraft.net: 6.5333(undrafted projections on Andre Roberson and Solomon Hill counted as 61st pick) - filtering out big misses(Every false prediction at least 15 slots wrong: Roberson, Hill, Nedovic, Goodwin) cleaned up mean: 2.962
DX.com: 4.766 - filtering out Goodwin, Nedovic, Hill: new mean: 3.444

variance
NBAdraft.net: 138 and after leaving out the same misses as in the mean calculation: 13.962
DX.com: 45,433 and 19 after cleaning up

So you can say that NBAdraft.net is considerably more inconsistent in picking the range of a player and they did more HUGE biffs and an equal amount of predictions very much off(more than 10 draft slots away)
Another thing that caught my mind is that DX sometimes had the team but was wrong on the pick they used(Predicting Andre Roberson to OKC with the 32nd instead of 26th, which was also OKC's) There were more of these kind of things but I'm too lazy to revisit it. Both services were comparably off on the lottery picks. If anything DX was slightly less off, but really we're talking inches here. But outside the lottery it becomes obvious that Givony is better connected with league sources than the guys running NBAdraft.net, whose performance really dropped, while Givony obviously had some insider infos he used in his final edition.
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Thanks for this. I think my legit loathing of daftnet is more because of wild swings and players they have so incredibly out of common sense position that I feel like they're trolling.

BTP said:
Them playing vs a zone is so clueless. I wonder if the player can't do better or if Self doesn't care or trolls.
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I wish a zone was illegal. Soooooo boring. I love when UK is paying a team that likes to play man.
 
The zone is the biggest reason I can't get that in to college basketball. The game just turns into the offense passing the ball around the perimeter while the crowd shouts "ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" all in unison. Gets so boring for me.

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Using the final mock as the be-all indicator of nbadarft.net's ****tiness is not good. Particularly since they can just become an echo-chamber.

What should be taken note of is their mocks in the middle of the season and also some of their terrible profiles that they EDIT mid-season (my favorite ever: Derrick Favors being a SF).
 
NUMBERICA said:
Using the final mock as the be-all indicator of nbadarft.net's ****tiness is not good. Particularly since they can just become an echo-chamber.

What should be taken note of is their mocks in the middle of the season and also some of their terrible profiles that they EDIT mid-season (my favorite ever: Derrick Favors being a SF).
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Iawtp

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NUMBERICA said:
Using the final mock as the be-all indicator of nbadarft.net's ****tiness is not good. Particularly since they can just become an echo-chamber.

What should be taken note of is their mocks in the middle of the season and also some of their terrible profiles that they EDIT mid-season (my favorite ever: Derrick Favors being a SF).
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I didn't find these mid season mocks and stuff. And it'd be way too much work. I think that's just mid season attention whoring because they wanna set themselves apart of other sites at cost of respectability with hardcore fans. I mean I watched 15 min of that Kansas game tonight and Embiid ****ed up more than he did right. If you pick him #1 you better hope he's the next Olajuwon, because Jabari Parker is definately skilled enough to make a lot of fans very angry on their franchise if his development at some point stops for whatever reason.

I just thought it's noteworthy that they steer back on draft night and stop trolling. They took tabloid strategies to the basketball scene.
 
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