Ethan Levy (Nylon Calculus): Have you looked at projecting players out of high school into college?

Ken Pomeroy: That’s the next frontier of analytics at the college level. There is a proliferation of elite AAU events where they’re keeping stats. There’s a decent trove of data out there to be analyzed and used for projection. Now there’s a legitimate data set to use to make your decisions. Obviously, for teams like Kentucky and Duke, that’s pretty useless – you can identify who the top players are, you don’t need stats to help you out. For some of these programs that traditionally struggle, I think there’s some good work to be done there to find hidden gems.

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