05-03-2026, 02:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2026, 02:59 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(05-03-2026, 02:28 PM)Winter Wrote: This is an article on SI.com about the PYA (productive young athlete) query which is data metrics to help determine longivity in NBA draft picks. Rather than explain it, you can read the article here. Fun read.
Subtitle: "78% of college basketball players who meet four specific criteria play five or more years in the NBA or are currently in the league. Who qualified this past season?"
https://www.si.com/nba/draft/newsfeed/20...lete-query
So, looking at that, of the 11 players they say qualify for their criteria in this draft, 4 of course are the big 4. The others of the "big 9" who made it were Flemings, Burries and Acuff (i.e. no Brown or Wagler, go figure. Wagler is not a super athlete). The other 4 were Allen Graves, Ebuka Okorie, Hannes Steinbach, and Ivan Kharchenkov (who? oh, he didn't declare for the draft).