Posted by raggedclaws on 9/6/2023 12:02:00 PM (view original):
Posted by samuelyork93 on 9/6/2023 11:24:00 AM (view original):
So I drafted Green assuming he could play PF but he is only 97% there. That makes NO sense. And now all the big men are gone.
I am going with
Harrison Barnes
and
Shake Milton
sm help???
That one is especially nuts. I mean, their most common starting lineup was Steph / Klay / Wiggins or Donte / Draymond / Looney. Even if we're calling Looney a center now (lol), how the f*** is Draymond not at least a valid 4? Shouldn't even be a 1/2. No sense at all.
I have a pretty good theory on why and I am not sure I blame them too much for it. For the longest time they had a stable data provider and that data provider had position data. A while after they got bought by Sportshub, they changed their data provider, I am guessing to cut costs (people like BBR got real expensive). I am guessing the new provider does not provide position data. To deal with that, I think they probably built a simple model using the historical players' positions in the database with height, weight, maybe blocks, steals, some other stats, whatever to generate a position generating formula. Unfortunately, the last several years, players have gotten smaller, shoot more threes, etc. than historically so a model based on the historic database is going to generate players lower on the positional scale. However, building a model entirely from scratch is a pretty big undertaking, which is why you don't see it done on other websites... and changing to a bigger data provider is probably pretty damn expensive for what is a pretty small userbase.
It is not an enviable position to be in if my theory is correct.