Warriors Body Doubles: Player Comparisons using Pre-Draft Measurements

I just did a massive data scraping from Draft Express, pulling 12 years worth of draft measurements, which I will use for analysis leading up to the big day. One of the things that we often seem to do around here is compare physical measurements (height, weight, reach, and wingspan) of draftees or current Warriors with other players around the league. It's a PITA to look this stuff up, but I think I can make it a little easier. And I'll give you an example using our current roster.

First, here is a table of all the measurements I pulled from DX (I converted all the length measurements to inches):

View in Google Spreadsheet

To find the similarities, I took the four body measurements (height, weight, wingspan, and reach), normalized them, and calculated a similarity score, which gave the following dendrogram:

You can actually download that PDF and search for players' names using Adobe Acrobat. The closer two players are on a branch, the more similar their pre-draft measurements. Of course, weight is going to change the most during a player's career, so that could change some of the comparisons. Still, this gives you a rough idea of player similarities, in terms of physical characteristics. So let's get going.

Stephen Curry

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Monta Ellis	2005	74.25	177	74.75	98
Ramon Sessions	2007	74	185	76.25	97.5
Stephen Curry	2009	74	181	75.5	97

Klay Thompson

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Antoine Wright	2005	77.25	203	80.75	104.5
Darington Hobson	2010	77.25	204	81.25	104.5
Klay Thompson	2011	77.75	206	81	103.5

David Lee

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
David Lee	2005	79.75	230	84	106.5
Tyler Hansbrough	2009	80.25	234	83.5	106
Justin Harper	2011	80	228	83.75	106

Andrew Bogut

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje	2001	83.5	245	88	111
Andrew Bogut	2005	83	251	87	110.5
Yi Jianlian	2007	83	246	87.5	N/A

Brandon Rush

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Brandon Rush	2005	77	211	83.25	104.5
J.R. Giddens	2008	76	208	83.25	104
Xavier Henry	2010	77.25	210	83.25	105

Dominic McGuire

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Dominic McGuire	2007	79.75	220	82.5	104
Reyshawn Terry	2007	78.75	222	82	103.5
Luke Babbitt	2010	79.5	218	83.25	104.5
Tobias Harris	2011	78.5	223	83	103.5

Nate Robinson

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Nate Robinson	2004	67.75	181	73	91.5
Isaiah Thomas	2011	68.75	186	73.75	91.5

Charles Jenkins

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Charles Jenkins	2011	73.5	216	79.5	96.5
Shelvin Mack	2011	73	209	79.5	96.5

Jeremy Tyler

NAME	YEAR	HEIGHT	WEIGHT	WINGSPAN	REACH
Emeka Okafor	2004	80.75	257	88	110.5
Jeremy Tyler	2011	81	262	89	110.5

Have fun!