Recruiting Experts

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Group has success picking choices by football recruits
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

So you think college-football recruiting is an inexact science? Several economists would beg to disagree.
Two years ago, a trio of economists borrowed a software program designed for the business community and turned it on the recruiting world.
They sorted through hundreds of factors that highschool kids use to make their college choice, plugged in factors that proved significant, and presto ? a model that correctly predicts the recruit?s decision about 70 percent of the time.

Cont'd

 

[goodguy]

Dispatch

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Group has success picking choices by football recruits
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

So you think college-football recruiting is an inexact science? Several economists would beg to disagree.
Two years ago, a trio of economists borrowed a software program designed for the business community and turned it on the recruiting world.
They sorted through hundreds of factors that highschool kids use to make their college choice, plugged in factors that proved significant, and presto ? a model that correctly predicts the recruit?s decision about 70 percent of the time.

Cont'd

Great read, one of the more interesting Dispatch articles I've read in a long time.

 

[sandgk]

I bet that issue of Sports Economics will be frequently photocopied (and the authors likely can get some dollars by licensing their predictive model).

I was surprised that "you are my number 1 guy" was not an influential factor.

 

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Breakdown of the various "gurus."