Can You Predict Performance from What a Player Says? You'd Be Surprised.

Taking some inspiration from MIT Sloan today!

Sometimes, I’ll do a bit of perusing of MIT Sloan papers. You know, the conference where guys with super-technical degrees decide to use their expertise in finance, engineering, or otherwise, in what is obviously a far more important field: Hoops!

I digress, but some of the stuff that comes out of the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference every year is l…