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Best & Worst Colleges for Converting Elite Recruits into NFL Draft Picks
By mtripat
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
CLICK HERE FOR OUR SERIES ON CONVERTING COLLEGE BASKETBALL TALENT INTO NBA PICKS.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR SERIES ON BEST COLLEGE BASKETBALL FAN BASES.
WE WILL BE LAUNCHING A SERIES OF POSTS RELATED TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL STARTING IN JULY. PLEASE FOLLOW@SPORTSMKTPROF FOR UPDATES.
As a follow-up to our previous post, we would like to provide a more complete view of the best and worst colleges based on converting elite recruits into NFL Draft picks (number of draft picks divided by the number of four and five star recruits). This study considers the last six NFL drafts, and examines the top sixty schools in terms of relevant recruiting cycles over the past twelve years. We exclude schools that have not produced a single draft pick in the 2007-2012 period or that have less than four elite recruits over the relevant recruiting cycles.
Since there have been a considerable number of inquiries, it should be noted that the University of Alabama finished in the middle of the pack. While the table above is produced from a rather straight-forward statistical analysis (descriptive statistics for each school), we would like to stress that our main results are derived from multiple linear regression models. The key result is the significant negative relationship between the number of four-star prospects and the draft conversion rate of high ranked prospect. It is also worth noting that while we focused on the ratio of draft picks to elite recruits we also conducted a number of other analyses that focused on alternative measures of draft success such as the number of Day 1 or First round picks per elite recruit. Our key finding was replicated across the various models.
By Dr. Mike Lewis & Dr. Manish Tripathi, Emory University 2013
By mtripat
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
CLICK HERE FOR OUR SERIES ON CONVERTING COLLEGE BASKETBALL TALENT INTO NBA PICKS.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR SERIES ON BEST COLLEGE BASKETBALL FAN BASES.
WE WILL BE LAUNCHING A SERIES OF POSTS RELATED TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL STARTING IN JULY. PLEASE FOLLOW@SPORTSMKTPROF FOR UPDATES.
Since there have been a considerable number of inquiries, it should be noted that the University of Alabama finished in the middle of the pack. While the table above is produced from a rather straight-forward statistical analysis (descriptive statistics for each school), we would like to stress that our main results are derived from multiple linear regression models. The key result is the significant negative relationship between the number of four-star prospects and the draft conversion rate of high ranked prospect. It is also worth noting that while we focused on the ratio of draft picks to elite recruits we also conducted a number of other analyses that focused on alternative measures of draft success such as the number of Day 1 or First round picks per elite recruit. Our key finding was replicated across the various models.
By Dr. Mike Lewis & Dr. Manish Tripathi, Emory University 2013
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