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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5356296, member: 628"]
Are you talking about deploying analytics for in-game strategy?  Or a  broader application?

In terms of the latter, that's where the analytics staff for pro franchises tend to earn their keep.  For example, the Red Sox have a large analytics staff.  Much of their work is focused on player projection and forecasting.  Not just current Sox, or MLB players, but the 20 year olds playing for Vanderbilt or winter ball in Mexico, or guys in the Dominican league.  If you hit on a couple players that end up being productive major leaguers it justifies the expense of an analytics team, sometimes by multiples.

In the case of basketball I think the true analytical skill is deciphering individual performance in a sport that's very much a team game.  There's no better example of that right now than Lampkin.  He's doing for us what he did for Colorado.  Except there he had 3 NBA-caliber players surrounding him.  Our evaluation of him was bad, because we didn't properly distinguish his value on a team that would have far less talent.

I suspect the hope is that Kline and his team make us much better in that aspect of projections and forecasting.

In-game strategy is whole other kettle of fish, IMHO.
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