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Hi everyone!

Recently, we wondered with a friend if it was worth investing in the draft. We wanted to analyze how much we sold our draftees during our career but realized it was a bit tedious to get this info.
So I created this small tool that I think can be interesting for the community: (https://bbhelper.shinyapps.io/Shiny_draft_en/)
You just have to enter a team ID and it will summarize your draft history since you started: list of all your drafted players and how much you sold them.
You can then come here brag about this draftee you sold for 6M back in season 22!

Enjoy and let me know if you have any ideas to improve it!

Last edited by Ariane at 5/7/2026 2:47:26 AM

Very neat idea!

A few suggestions:

- what is the difference between the sale price and the first sale price? I would expect that the sale price should always be greater than the first sale price but I see for my team cases where the first same price is non-zero while the sale price is $0. Maybe that's a bug?
- I would love to see a few more details for each player row (many of these could be hidden by default, so that it doesn't get crowded):
- a link on the player name that opens the player page? ideally with a user setting for buzzerbeater.com vs .org.
- max player salary in the player's career
- age when the player was sold
- team draft order on that season (can be deduced from the player draft order of course, so probably should hidden by default)
- the cumulative weekly salaries paid while that player was in the team. this can be calculated from the player history page.
- Player position (PG, SG, etc)
- Max sale price in the player's career
- If the player was ever NT or U21 NT.
- It would be interesting to have a different "League Draft page" with a selector for the season number. On a related note, it would be interesting to come up with a few metrics that indicate how good a team is at taking advantage of the draft and display it there. Similarly an overview page for the top 30 teams based on world rankings.

Thanks for your feedback and ideas! I'll try to answer to the different points:

- the sale price corresponds to the price you get for a draftee when you sell him just after the draft occurred (well, during the season at least) while the first sale price is the price you get for a player you sell any other season. So the sale price is supposed to represent the price of the "raw" rookies without training while the first sale price is supposed to represent the price you get after potentially training them. I'm not convinced either with the names of the columns, I'll try to find better names.
- You can now click on the player's name to get to his page
- I added the salary at the draft and the max salary during his career
- Team draft order: is that not the same thing as the first value of pick?
- There are a lot of info that I would have loved to add (player age at draft, potential, position, NT games...) but they are not (or not always for NT games) accessible via the player history page so I don't thnk I can add them
- I think the cumulative sales and the plot about the sales per draft are ok metrics to indicate if a team performs well when drafting but if you have any other ideas I would be happy to consider them!