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Message: [QUOTE="Puppy Love, post: 4306313, member: 8101"] I am a recently retired data professional. I think I would view this with a dose of healthy skepticism. Data is only as useful as the models that are applied to it. It takes a lot of time and fine-tuning to get good models. Since sports data is ever changing (new players, graduations, coaching changes, injuries), it would be hard to create models that will have a good predictive value. It might be easier to make organizational predictions (win loss records, even the probability of which team will win a particular game) than it is to predict the performance of an individual player. It probably saves some time getting summarized past performance data, but I wouldn’t be basing any recruiting decisions on it. [/QUOTE]