Tobias Berger

It's launch day! Check out ProspectTheory.io - your new platform for NBA draft intelligence. It provides its own draft model, big boards, but also the opportunity to deep dive players via their scouting pages. Mission and features I explain here: prospecttheorydraft.substack.com/p/introducing-…

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Yesterday Wemby passed Kareem as the youngest player with a 40/20 playoff game beating him by ~200 days. Abdul-Jabbar was the only player remotely matching Victor's physical profile coming in. (see the 🧵below) Mind-boggling to see that he matches him performance wise so far.

Ever wondered what NBA Combine data you should pay attention to? What is only interesting noise feeding our biases? I explain it in this article through l8oking at peer-reviewed research results,ä while touching the subjects of horse racing and dancing.

I calculate Functional Athleticism directly from in-game events. This has become one of my core prospect scouting pillar numbers, mathematically incorporating a player’s dunks, stocks , rebounding and rim frequency.

To give you a bird’s-eye view of how this class stacks up physically and functionally after the Chicago data drop, I feature a comprehensive overview plot for all 2026 draft prospects.

Updated the anthros for all 2026 NBA Draft Combine participants on my site! I also wrote some words about the event in general because I want you to avoid to jump to wrong conclusions. I looked at biases, research data, horse racing and dancing. prospecttheorydraft.substack.com/p/nba-draft-co…

NBA Draft Intel, now has a sleek player comparison feature if you want to quickly view multiple players, you can also share these comparisons easily via links on the site. Compare Darius Acuff Jr. vs Keaton Wagler vs Kingston Flemings on NBA Draft Intel nbadraftintel.com/compare?draft_…

nbadraftintel.com So I coded up this website, it does a few interesting things: 1: It aggregates all major mock drafts I could find to give an aggregate score 2: If you click into a player it shows their stats and combine measurements (and averages for combine measurements by position) 3: It has an overall combine history with everything on one page which is easier to use than nba's split up one 4: It has a draft history that splits out the draft by who you actually ended up with (post trades) so it is better than listed draft histories for seeing what your franchise did. It also can show who were the next picks after your pick and compares how good your guy was to those guys by a few metrics (you can pick which) 5: It has aggregated summaries from all the mocks about what they have written by about everyone 6: It has an AI research report on every player doing websearch and aggregating the information about each one individually using a skill I wrote to try and get useful, consistent information rather than generic AI summaries 7: Each player has a video section where I brought in different feeds of people who do scouting reports on the players via youtube API. If you're trying to get a quick summary on all the guys the bulls might draft (or any other team), it's a neat quick way to kind of consolidate all draft info into one place pretty quickly.

my 2026 NBA draft top 100 big board is live @ES_sportsnews, featuring scouting reports, stats and superlatives for all prospects. a ton of work went into producing this, shoutout to everyone who made it happen. check it out! essentiallysports.com/nba-draft/2026…

@_BryceCutler You mean reactive strength index with RSI?

@_prospecttheory Yup. Boozer just doesn't have a lot of wasted movement. Not elite explosiveness, but can stop and redirect force really well. Idk why RSI isn't the standard test for explosiveness at the combine. Would tell the best story of function of physical abilities to your point imo.

Athleticism is so tricky. Is Wilson the better run and jump athlete by far? Yes. Is this an interesting example for the "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." way of looking at things? Also yes. Figuring out the functionality of physical traits and abilities is hard.

Draft is more fun than fun is! Die NBA-Lottery ist durch. Grund genug hier einen Mock-Draft zu starten. @DanDeJong1, @GatheringIntel und ich werden die kommenden Tage Manager der NBA-Teams spielen und abwechselnd die 1. Runde picken. Stay tuned!

Check this video to grasp this better. Speed does not always translate. Processing, positioning, rhythm and technique can go a long way. In the military they say "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast" for a reason. Look for smooth, fast processors. youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3p0B…

My paper on this matter, which was part of my dissertation: emerald.com/sbm/article-ab… This is the reason why I used rim pressure, rebounding, sticks and dunking as a proxy for functional athleticism on my new site. Interestingly Boozer scores higher than Wilson here e.g.

I can only 2nd this. Anthros are important. With the drills, please check if they match your eye-test and be a little careful. My research showed that we tend overrate run&jump athl. But you prolly know this and already preach to the functional athl church @TheStepien built.

creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ga… Top 5 Talk zur 2026er Draft

My annual reminder at Combine/measurement. Measurement in a planned situation is different from actual performance during in-game.

@shoooobb Thanks for the compliment. Hope you are having fun with this site.

this is so nice