Content # NBA Draft 2015 This folder contains data behind the story [Projecting The Top 50 Players In The 2015 NBA Draft Class](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/projecting-the-top-50-players-in-the-2015-nba-draft-class/). `historical_projections.csv` contains historical results of the NBA draft projection model, 2001-2015. Header | Definition ---|--------- `Player` | Player name `Position` | The player's position going into the draft `ID` | The player's identification code `Draft Year` | The year the player was eligible for the NBA draft `Projected SPM` | The model's projected statistical plus/minus over years 2-5 of the player's NBA career `Superstar` | Probability of becoming a superstar player (1 per draft, SPM >= +3.3) `Starter` | Probability of becoming a starting-caliber player (10 per draft, SPM >= +0.5) `Role Player` | Probability of becoming a role player (25 per draft, SPM >= -1.4) `Bust` | Probability of becoming a bust (everyone else, SPM < -1.4) Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.