NHL Draft

Last week (2023/06/10), Pranshanth Iyer reached out to see if I was interested in helping apply a rank-ordered logit model to professional draft rankings. I was. The methodology is available both on the app (“About the Model” tab) as well as on my blog here. A suggested application of the methodology, which proposes a new approach to draft pick value, is available here.

In 2020, bored during lockdown, I decided to scrape a now defunct website which hosted user mock drafts called Draft Site. I obtained hundreds of user entries over multiple drafts, and built a draft pick probability model for the upcoming NHL draft. I reached out to Ian Levy at Nylon Calculus to see if he was interested in having the same methodology applied to the NBA draft. He was.