Thursday, October 2, 2014

Platooning analytics and the NBA

John Calipari hires an analytics guru in order to better promote his platoon guys to the NBA:

"In other words, Calipari didn't really need to explain why he hired an advanced analytics type. But on Monday, at a UK alumni luncheon in Louisville, he did so anyway. His motivation? The platoon. 

"If you're playing 20 minutes, what will your NCAA stats look like?" Calipari said. "Terrible for NCAA stats. So we're going to have big data stats, per-minute and efficiency stats that we can send to NBA teams."

Maybe the NFL should dump Roger Goodell and go after Calipari -- the guy's a PR master.

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