2016: The Big Board

(This article initially appeared at DeepishThoughts and is reproduced here for completeness only.) IT’S TIME FOR THE 2016 BIG BOARD!! GET HYPED!! I lied. Before I get to the Big Board, I’m going to include here a whole bunch of stuff that I’ve written over the course of this draft series and some other information…

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2016: Applying the Theory to This Year’s Prospects

(This article initially appeared at DEEPishThoughts and is reproduced here for completeness only.) With less than two weeks until the 2016 draft, I guess I should start talking about the prospects in the 2016 draft.  I will try to link back to relevant articles where appropriate, but the two most important are probably Naming and…

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2016: It’s All About the Game, And How You Play It

(This article initially appeared at DEEPishThoughts and is reproduced here for completeness only.) Hello, and welcome to my first article over here at DEEPish Thoughts.  Thanks to Chris for inviting me.  For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Buster Ducks, aka TheDuckyNinja.  I’ve been writing about the NBA Draft since 2014, and you…

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2016: What We Know We Think We Know But Don’t

I started this series with an article about fallacies. With a month to go before the draft, I want to write a similar article, this time regarding the most common cognitive biases in prospect evaluation. But, as we’re starting to get close, I’m actually going to talk about some specific prospects in the process. Let’s…

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Just. Fucking. Take. Simmons.

(This was originally posted on LibertyBallers as a FanPost and is not part of my Draft Series. It is reproduced here for completeness only.) It’s been awhile since I came back here, and it’ll probably be awhile until I’m back again, but this post isn’t part of my draft series, it’s just a very clear,…

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2016: The FP System

Back in 2014, I wrote an introduction to the primary “advanced” stat I use to evaluate prospects – FP. Since then, I’ve refined the way I use it to project, but the base stat has stayed the same. FP stands for fantasy points – it’s really nothing more than a way to convert basic statistics…

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2016: Everything’s Different in the Adult World

The 2016 draft series rolls on, and as it transitions from the NBA back to the NCAA, it seems like a perfect time for an article about, well, the transition from the NCAA to the NBA.  Some of this may be obvious to those of you who watch both sports, but as there are a…

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2016: Judging Players Without Judging Each Other

Welcome back, as I continue the journey from the top down. Last week, I covered roles, formations, positions, etc. in the modern NBA. That provides the groundwork for just about everything else I’m writing, so if you missed it, go back and check it out. I will be writing an updated version of the post…

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2016: Naming and Necessity

As explained last week, I take a top-down approach to the NBA draft. And this article, at the very top, was by far the hardest to write. The NBA has changed so much recently, but the language used to discuss it hasn’t. Put simply, the positional paradigm used for, well, as long as I’ve been…

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2016: The Four Horsemen of the Argument-pocalypse

Hello and welcome to the brand new BusterDucks.com, where I will be posting all of my draft articles going forward (and all of my draft articles from the past two years are now on here as well). You can also now find me @BusterDucks, because I finally gave in and got a twitter handle. Anyway,…

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