I don't think it's a "front" - I think Ainge probably treats analytics like Bill Simmons does. He reads the reports, considers them, and then goes with his gut anyway. That's just a guess of course. Either way, I don't see much reason to think Ainge gives the metrics much weight with respect to the draft. Or if he does, then the Celtics analytics team is generating very different reports than other teams, and public systems are.
The dude's got a last name that's a full name. I don't know what to make of that.
I saw one area was expected to be 63/37 to remain and it went 50/50. GJGE pollsters.
I thought Hunter and Rozier were highly ranked from an analytics standpoint - at least some analytics.
Polling was actually pretty good, people just assumed the undecideds would break remain.
Giddens and Olynyk were the ones that made me mad. I wanted Chalmers and Giannis. Add Brown to that list with Bender,
I was hearing that the weather favored the exits as they were more determined than the remains. Interesting.
I'll note, Crowder and Green were both analytics darlings in 2012 too, projecting as among the best prospects in the draft that year.
Someone said the Cs had Green as second (third?) best player on their draft board that year but they had Sullinger ranked higher.
Hunter graded out well on most systems I'm aware of. Rozier graded out very poorly on the other hand on every system I know except for Stephen Shea's system, which is based on looking at how players did in their best games, and throws out the rest of the sample. Generally however, analytics-types didn't like the Rozier pick.
