FiveThirtyEight.com has some awesome stuff. If you have some spare time I strongly suggest you take a look at the site.
One of their more interesting pieces involves their top 50 college players of the 2015 NBA draft and how they compiled their data. The results ended favorably for Detroit’s Stanley Johnson who–not surprisingly– rates very similar to Justise Winslow.
What is surprising however, is how high each forward ranks on the their big board. WInslow is second and Johnson third.
Take a look at how they came up with this list:
Like other statistical draft projection systems out there, this model uses a player’s college numbers,3 demographic data such as height and weight, and his top 100 ranking, as a proxy for what the scouts think of him.