Draft Class Almanac
An archive-grade reference app for serious NBA fans that catalogs every draft class's Summer League, preseason, and rookie-year stats with searchable filters.
Hardcore NBA fans and prospect analysts who track the draft year-round
- Side-by-side draft class comparisons (e.g., this year's rookies vs. 2019 class)
- Filterable Summer League and preseason stat browser
- Saved prospect watchlists with milestone alerts
- Shareable stat cards for social media
With a marquee Summer League debut driving searches, hardcore fans are hungry for context — historical parallels and class-vs-class comparisons are not surfaced well anywhere.
2025 Summer League viewership averaged 255,000 viewers on ESPN/ESPN2 (+27% YoY), showing a real but still niche audience; Basketball Reference and NBA.com absorb the bulk of hardcore prospect-stat lookups.2025 NBA Las Vegas Summer League Viewership Up Double Digits ↗Basketball Statistics & History of Every Team & NBA and WNBA Players ↗
Space is crowded: Basketball Reference covers all draft/rookie/Summer League stats for free plus a $9/mo tier; NBA.com official stats, SI Rookie Tracker, CBS Summer League grades, and NBADraft.net/Tankathon all cover overlapping use cases — a dedicated archive adds incremental, not new, value.Basketball-Reference.com Subscription Plans ↗Rookie Standouts from Day Two of 2025 Las Vegas NBA Summer League ↗
Hardcore fans will pay a modest amount but Basketball Reference already monetizes this audience at $9/mo or $80/yr; a class-specific archive app likely needs to land at $3-6/mo with modest conversion, limiting TAM.Basketball-Reference.com Subscription Plans ↗
Annual NBA draft + recurring Summer League + rookie-year tracking produce evergreen, compounding interest; historical-class comparisons grow more valuable over time, and the 2025 viewership rebound signals durable engagement.2025 NBA Las Vegas Summer League Viewership Up Double Digits ↗
Public NBA stats APIs and Basketball Reference data make core stats straightforward; building searchable, class-vs-class filters is standard work, though sourcing/cleaning historical Summer League and preseason data and shipping a polished mobile-first UI add real build time.Official NBA Stats |Stats | NBA.com ↗