Good players can be found virtually anywhere in the draft lottery. Heck, great players can be found anywhere in the draft lottery. Hall of Fame players, though much harder to come by, can be found almost anywhere in the draft lottery. Certainly, the higher you pick, the greater the odds that you will land a good/great player. But a higher pick does not assure you that you will avoid a bust, and a lower pick is not a guarantee that your player will be bench fodder.
Let's take a look at the last twenty five years, first in handy-dandy chart form:
| Pick # | Best Pick(Yr. |