I believe that the only tool that can tell you in which coin / token you need to invest your money, and in which not, is your brain.
You are right, now there are more than 2000 coins and tokens and 95 percent is rubbish and fraud. To choose a promising project, you need to think very well with your head and be able to analyze.
In stock market, there are some indicators that might help us, investors to choose which are good to buy, I guess soon in the cryptocurrency there will also one that will provide us some great updates regarding whales that will going to invest too much in a coin so, we can join the party while the coin's market value is increasing.