Some professional sports have some degree of psychometric profiles for eligible amateur players for the draft.
What they do, how they weigh it and how effective it is IRL is still kind of a black box though.
The only time you really hear about it is when some scout or executive brags that one of their up-and-coming prospects now in the system tested "off the charts" for intangibles.
You hear it every draft. Like some "scouts" have Zach Benson at 4 or 5 above Will Smith or even Leo Carlsson because work ethic and intangibles.
For context Benson's season was fine, he played on a star studded team and did fine but is tiny and has just ok speed. Will Smith and Leo Carlsson challenged records for pre-draft seasons set by hall of famers.
Some professional sports have some degree of psychometric profiles for eligible amateur players for the draft.
What they do, how they weigh it and how effective it is IRL is still kind of a black box though.
The only time you really hear about it is when some scout or executive brags that one of their up-and-coming prospects now in the system tested "off the charts" for intangibles.
You hear it every draft. Like some "scouts" have Zach Benson at 4 or 5 above Will Smith or even Leo Carlsson because work ethic and intangibles.
For context Benson's season was fine, he played on a star studded team and did fine but is tiny and has just ok speed. Will Smith and Leo Carlsson challenged records for pre-draft seasons set by hall of famers.