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NBA Draft-related Additions to Basketball Reference Play Index
Posted by Mike Lynch on June 18, 2015
With the NBA Draft a week away, we wanted to briefly introduce some subtle, but useful additions to the Play Index.
First up, is a tweak to the Player Season Finder, which now allows for customized statistical searches by player draft year. You'll notice there's now a filter for BAA/NBA Draft Year. Utilizing this, you can now search for things such as:
- Most career Win Shares by players selected in 1984
- First Team All-NBA selections for players drafted in 2003
- Hall of Famers selected in 1972
- All-Stars selected in 1996
Additionally, we have made some enhancements to the Draft Finder. The biggest change is that you can now filter by the draftees' NBA/BAA position (please note that we don't have positions in the DB for many drafted players who never went on to play in the league). But, for instance, here are centers drafted in 2014. Additionally, you'll notice that player ages on draft day and birth country now display in the results. Again, this data is unavailable for many players who never played in the league.
We hope you find these new tools useful.
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