Given we have Eli Witus as our AGM, I thought it may be interesting to see if I could find any videos that looked at prospects from different analytic perspectives. The above video is long (58 Mins), but the young man has put in some time creating graphs for the viewer to help visualize his work (built from a spreadsheet). His presentation skills aren't the best, but besides the analytics he's also watched some film and offers that to support some of what comes out in the numbers. If anyone finds better videos please post them in this thread. If you like Maluach, Queen, Knueppel, Jakucionis, Coward or Clifford to name a few you'll find some support. He's not as high on Ace Bailey, Tre Johnson, Egor Demin, Liam McNeeley and a few others.
The problem with college numbers is the game is so different than the NBA and combined with the fact the competition they went up against is all over the place depending on which conference you were in. The various numbers can make you look too good or too bad. We see it every when people claim Player A is great/elite based upon numbers and ends up being a benchwarmer because the skills didn't tranlate to the NBA or he was just playing against inferior competition that hid flaws.
Agree, but you can look at these assessments and use film to confirm whether the skills or issues may translate to NBA ball. There are no absolutes, but looking at the prospects from multiple perspectives can be beneficial, especially for us non-scout fan types.
Lol, done! Having worked in the intelligence and analytics world for over 40 years, nerds/dorks/geeks are some of our strategic advantage. The smartest nerd I ever worked with (we actually founded a tech company together) is a math guru whose brilliance helped tracked down some of the most deadly terrorists the world has known. Ironically, beyond is appearance he's a regular guy who loves sports (KC fan). Sorry, tangent, retired guys tend to expound beyond what people care about.
If all of us very smart retired guys got our brains together...what could/should we do? Other than a bbq?
Follow your passion my friend. Once I rehab from this quintuple bypass I'm going to get certified in this leadership training I believe in and pour my extra time into building the next generation of leaders (which I believe is a weakness). Personally, I think as a country we waste a lot of our intellectual capacity by not having more ways for seniors to contribute. I'm very happy I'm out of the "rat race" but still believe I have a lot to give back and that's why I'm going to pursue the above. Besides bbq, we could also start a whiskey tasting, cigar smoking, local sports club.
