Over the past couple weeks, we’ve taken a preliminary spin through Ye Olde Draft Analyzer’s (YODA for short) view of the upcoming NBA Draft. The TLDR: several good guard prospects, a few intriguing centers, and not many impressive wings or forwards.
Today, I’m going to run Tankathon’s consensus Big Board top five through the YODA version of the statistical doppelgänger machine. These comps are mainly for fun, though it is sometimes useful to separate a player’s name and how he looks from the evaluation. By using statistical production as the basis for comparison, we may be able to move beyond the silly-season habit of intra-racial comps.