The NBA Combine is here and I cannot wait for it all. Measurements, cone drills, vertical leaps, shooting drills, and 5-on-5 scrimmages. Here is what I'm keeping an eye on this week in Chicago.
I love your article, very interesting points. My question might be a bit complicated to answer in the comments.
I am an MS student at Brooklyn College in kinesiology and one of the topics that I am interested in writing my research thesis is the importance of combine testing, specifically only physical tests. I am interested in finding the correlation between performance aspects and draft positions. I am aware of the fact that ball skills and college stats play a significant role in the NBA draft, however, I want to isolate just the physical aspect and find the correlation between objective data and draft position.
The tricky part is that not every test is rated equally for each position. For some positions agility drill has greater importance than for some other ones. In order for the statistical deviation to be as accurate as possible I need to know which specific tests are most valuable to the ones that are least valuable for each specific position. I did research on this, but there is not lot of information on this specific topic, and that is how I came across your article.
I hope you have some recommendations for me on how to find right answer to this problem.
Amazing stuff 💯
Thank you!
Hi Alex,
I love your article, very interesting points. My question might be a bit complicated to answer in the comments.
I am an MS student at Brooklyn College in kinesiology and one of the topics that I am interested in writing my research thesis is the importance of combine testing, specifically only physical tests. I am interested in finding the correlation between performance aspects and draft positions. I am aware of the fact that ball skills and college stats play a significant role in the NBA draft, however, I want to isolate just the physical aspect and find the correlation between objective data and draft position.
The tricky part is that not every test is rated equally for each position. For some positions agility drill has greater importance than for some other ones. In order for the statistical deviation to be as accurate as possible I need to know which specific tests are most valuable to the ones that are least valuable for each specific position. I did research on this, but there is not lot of information on this specific topic, and that is how I came across your article.
I hope you have some recommendations for me on how to find right answer to this problem.
Thank you.
Dan.