I ran a draft of Cyclone basketball players with ChatGPT. We did 20 rounds, two squads. I let the AI go first. I went second. Altogether I think this looks like a solid list of all time top 40.
Any glaring omissions? I can think of a dozen guys who can have been included. Homan, Vroman, Tyrus, Elmer Robinson, immediately come to mind being left out. I think I selected more legends than the AI did. I got some takeaways below, along with the picks, and the entire conversation I had with the AI.
Takeaways:
For #1 pick Chat went with Niang! Hey I think he’s my favorite Cyclone but don’t think I’d put him first in a draft. That said, maybe Hoiberg as my first pick is off, perhaps should have been Fizer, Halliburton, Tinsley, Hornacek, Grayer, or heck even the Roland Rocket. I think I could talk myself into any of those guys as the first pick.
The top 10, 5 vs 5 looks solid. I think a good argument could be made that it's the all time Cyclone top 10 right there. Though I think ChatGPT whiffed with its 5th pick of Willoughby and could have put my 6 pick Gary Thompson there or arguably three or four others. Might be splitting hairs at that point. Willoughby did have that 96 Big 8 tournament title.
I think beyond the 7-8th picks players look pretty interchangeable.
Looks like a good cross section of various eras of Cyclone hoops. Likely more guys from the past ten years in there, but obviously that’s been our most successful sustained period of success so it makes sense and not just recency bias.
For my 20th pick I really thought about Conrad Hawley or Greg Hester for the fun of it.
Is it too soon for to have put Milan on this list? (My 19th pick)
I was pretty impressed with ChatGPT’s little blurbs about each of its selections telling the importance of each player to Iowa State basketball.
ChatGPT’s 17th pick of Dean Uthoff is a steal. He totally slipped my mind.
Just a matter of operations ChatGPT really struggled once we got around pick 10 where it had troubles recalling its prior picks and wanted to double pick guys. At one point it tried picking 5 guys consecutively it already picked for one selection and needed to be redirected.
It also had issues keeping track at that point what round it was. At round 10 it thought we were done.
A few funny things. ChatGPT at one point picked Brock Purdy as a joke, even saying it was a joke and then made a real pick. Twice it picked some guys from the 1980s off LSU and Georgia Tech which was weird and I had to correct it.
Once done I had to manually transcribe it all and then correct the AI on the selections/order.
Team ChatGPT
Team Me
Any glaring omissions? I can think of a dozen guys who can have been included. Homan, Vroman, Tyrus, Elmer Robinson, immediately come to mind being left out. I think I selected more legends than the AI did. I got some takeaways below, along with the picks, and the entire conversation I had with the AI.
Takeaways:
For #1 pick Chat went with Niang! Hey I think he’s my favorite Cyclone but don’t think I’d put him first in a draft. That said, maybe Hoiberg as my first pick is off, perhaps should have been Fizer, Halliburton, Tinsley, Hornacek, Grayer, or heck even the Roland Rocket. I think I could talk myself into any of those guys as the first pick.
The top 10, 5 vs 5 looks solid. I think a good argument could be made that it's the all time Cyclone top 10 right there. Though I think ChatGPT whiffed with its 5th pick of Willoughby and could have put my 6 pick Gary Thompson there or arguably three or four others. Might be splitting hairs at that point. Willoughby did have that 96 Big 8 tournament title.
I think beyond the 7-8th picks players look pretty interchangeable.
Looks like a good cross section of various eras of Cyclone hoops. Likely more guys from the past ten years in there, but obviously that’s been our most successful sustained period of success so it makes sense and not just recency bias.
For my 20th pick I really thought about Conrad Hawley or Greg Hester for the fun of it.
Is it too soon for to have put Milan on this list? (My 19th pick)
I was pretty impressed with ChatGPT’s little blurbs about each of its selections telling the importance of each player to Iowa State basketball.
ChatGPT’s 17th pick of Dean Uthoff is a steal. He totally slipped my mind.
Just a matter of operations ChatGPT really struggled once we got around pick 10 where it had troubles recalling its prior picks and wanted to double pick guys. At one point it tried picking 5 guys consecutively it already picked for one selection and needed to be redirected.
It also had issues keeping track at that point what round it was. At round 10 it thought we were done.
A few funny things. ChatGPT at one point picked Brock Purdy as a joke, even saying it was a joke and then made a real pick. Twice it picked some guys from the 1980s off LSU and Georgia Tech which was weird and I had to correct it.
Once done I had to manually transcribe it all and then correct the AI on the selections/order.
Team ChatGPT
- Georges Niang
- Jamaal Tinsley
- Jeff Grayer
- Victor Alexander
- Dedrick Willoughby
- Curtis Stinson
- DeAndre Kane
- Melvin Ejim
- Kelvin Cato
- Loren Meyer
- Rashon Clark
- Michael Nurse
- Jake Sullivan
- Royce White
- Diante Garrett
- Robert Jones
- Dean Uthoff
- Lindell Wigginton
- Jacy Holloway
- Paul Shirley
Team Me
- Fred Hoiberg
- Tyrese Haliburton
- Marcus Fizer
- Jeff Hornacek
- Monte Morris
- Gary Thompson
- Barry Stevens
- Tamin Lipsey
- Craig Brackins
- Will Clyburn
- Zaid Abdul-Aziz
- Chris Babb
- Naz Mitrou-Long
- Talen Horton-Tucker
- Matt Thomas
- Jameel McKay
- Deonte Burton
- Justus Thigpen
- Milan Momcilovic
- Lafester Rhodes
