What is your method for making historic draft classes?

[Ar4bAce]

I want to try and recreate some historic classea to myself and am struggling with an accurate way to make sure the stats/potential are somewhat accurate. My current method is looking up a player’s rookie year stats and trying to find the best comp from this year’s rookies and using that as a template. I am inflating everyone’s 3 pt stat a little bit because I want them to make sense in today’s NBA otherwise it would be a whole draft class with bad shooters. For potential I am using BBref to look at similiar winshares and just using that player’s potential.

I want this to be accurate but I also want it to be done quick so I can actually use multiple draft classes so I am not a big stickler for how they look.

What are some methods you guys use?

[DC]

Which years are you referring to?

[Ar4bAce]

Quote: Originally Posted by DC

Which years are you referring to?

Just in general, any year. Basically I am just wondering what general template people use.

[lgoldberg12]

I haven't really been making draft classes, but I'm currently making a 2000-2001 roster on 2k21 for Xbox, and I have had to create tons of players and rate them on stats and stuff I see on Basketball Reference. What I pretty much do is look at their career stats and watch how they progressed and regressed throughout. Then I come up with a possible range I want their overall to be. For example I created Ron Mercer on the bulls, and He was pretty good statistically during those years, but he was also on a very bad team. I thought his overall should be in the 79-81 range. So after I gave him badges and fixed his attributes I checked his overall to see that he was an 82, so I nerfed him a bit. I pretty much think of players on levels of talent. So like Superstars are 93 and above, Then other stars are 87-92. Then there are the good players who have made an all star team, in the 83-86 range. Then 78-82 is a quality starter, and so on. It really just comes down to how you gage talent and what your overall system is like.