A draft tool released by T.J. Furman and philly.com compiles data on 40 years worth of drafts from basketball-reference.com. It compares each pick to every historical pick selected in that same spot.
The idea is this…
You can use various statistics to measure the “value” of a pick historically. Win shares is a statistic that attempts to estimate the number of wins that a player contributed to his team in an individual season. Given the Hawks recent draft picks, every fan could use that tool to evaluate just how valuable each pick has been.