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I am not aware of anyone in public who has computed the average recent value of playoff seeds beyond regular season mov or srs. How valuable are higher seeds? Which teams have estimated their value and to what extent has it influenced their actions?

I am not sure many in public have tried to concretely estimate playoff seed value, though perhaps some gamblers have.

What new information / advice are teams seeking, beyond the norms of recent past? Anyone with knowledge want to share? What else should they be asking for?

Any team insiders want to state what they might be interested in here?

How much are they using consultants to pursue requests beyond current staff / time / capability? How much do the professional consulting firms do on brainstorming / producing new products on spec or from client requests? Selling to any willing buyers vs exclusive? Whom is most aligned with whom? Most active / least active with consultants? Most active in analytic talent review, headhunters? How do the pay scales and working conditions compare?

Conceivably media with some analytic background / interest and standing in industry could survey and write on these topics. Or knowledgeable individuals with personal experience could just chat out a few comments here. If they believed in the value of a public or semi-public network and sharing. Is there such a "network" elsewhere? Anybody ever want to share about how they networked at Sloan Conference and what they got out of it? Summer League? Could be as guarded or descriptive as you want, if inclined. A subset could be things you tried / people you tried that didn't really get started or achieve anything. Anybody find the get together for beers at Sloan particularly useful? Any large / hopefully semi-open group analyst hang at Vegas? Anybody want to comment on their experience with sports business classrooms / courses?

I've mentioned it before but will briefly ask about free agency models again.

Do teams have formal analytic models of free agency in general or for a specific year or do they just go from accumulated / remembered information & experience?

Long ago Rich Cho reportedly got Microsoft engineers to build a model to identify all legal trade possibilities and used it to increase awareness of and active consideration of a fuller world of trade options.

How many teams have done / actually use similar?


This is a stepping stone note to my main comment:

Has any team built a detailed model to cluster historic trades actually completed, review their characteristics, common and unusual, and impacts on team, immediate and long-term, on court and on cap?

How much is that project worth or potentially worth? Not worth anything until conceptualized, mentioned, advocated but after it could be.



Has any team tried to get a full log of fan proposed trades on any of the several trade machines? May or may not be good idea needles in those haystacks. If one analyzed them. If not specific / realistic trade winner, perhaps awareness of less common types of trades. The above approaches may be better but knowing / exploring a third possibility is better or potentially better than not knowing / exploring, I'd guess.