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Over the past ten years, the Toronto Raptors have been the best drafting team by a wide margin. This has contributed to seven straight post-season appearances, capped with an NBA Championship in 2019. Meanwhile, Cleveland ranked as the worst drafting team.

A couple of the result are fairly surprising. While Golden State and San Antonio are both considered to be strong drafters, this analysis ranks them as below average. In reality, most of their home-run draft picks occurred more than ten years ago (outside of this analysis). Their drafting in more recent years has been less impressive.

This roll-your-own approach can be very powerful. We have seen LISP programmers use this to build object-oriented programming systems in LISP, even creating multiple-dispatch systems akin to Julia.

The results of this analysis also empirically validate the vital link between drafting success and winning. The relationship between team drafting scores and winning is strong and statistically significant — an increase of 0.1 in team draft score is associated with 3.7 more regular season wins in the last NBA season. Of the fourteen teams with an above average draft score, ten of them made the playoffs last year. Among the bottom five teams, none made the playoffs.

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The very best draft picks have a score of 4.0 while worst-performing picks have scores below -2.0. About one-quarter of all draft picks had a score close to zero— largely due to late draft picks that had low expectations and correspondingly low-impact performance.

Drafting is one of the most crucial elements of a successful long-term franchise. Fueled by a series of great draft picks, the San Antonio Spurs went on to make the playoffs for a record-tying 22 seasons while winning five championships in the process. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Sacramento Kings are currently riding a 14-year playoff drought — the second longest in NBA history. Unsurprisingly, this analysis ranks them among the teams least successful at drafting.

One may ask, why not build these kinds of things into the language? If you have ever used Lua, you will know some of the advantages of instead giving you the building blocks to create an object-oriented system rather than hardwiring it.

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This is not exactly how it is define. I am just doing this from memory. What this allows us to do is have different open functions for files, sockets and pipes. But since they all give us a File struct back, other function can operate on this using these function pointers it contains, and this abstracts away the difference in underlying structure.

In Zig we use a similar approach described in more detail here by Nathan Michaels. Zig offers better features for doing this than C, so you see it use more to create generic iterators, allocators, readers, writers and many more things in Zig.

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With Zig you could build C style object-oriented system, something more akin to Go or even object-oriented programming more similar to a more dynamic language like Objective-C.

In this analysis, I have created a metric that scores each draft pick by comparing them against the players taken after them (the full methodology is available at the end). After applying this over the last 10 years (the drafts from 2010 to 2019), we can now measure which teams have been successful in their drafting and what teams have not.

A couple of outliers are noted in this chart. First, despite the relatively low expectations of a 30th overall pick, Jimmy Butler went on to become one of the most impactful players in the NBA. Conversely, Thomas Robinson enormously under-performed as a 5th overall pick.