As always, I’ll start by explaining my methodology and ranking system, and then summarize the value of picks in the draft before getting to the Pelican’s picks specifically. If you only care about how the 6th, 39th and 40th picks historically perform, then skip to the second half of this post.
Determining the Value of a Pick
To determine the value of a pick, I assigned an overall career ranking based on PER and a bastardized Wages of Wins Win Score and applied it to all the players who have been taken in the draft since 1984 and 2012 (I cut if off there because it is hard to judge a career trajectory in three seasons) Finally I jammed those numbers into a simple Grade ranking.