Mornin Mates...
Today's Topic = Big League Advance
Woke up this morning to more rain down here in Geezerville...
It's rained pretty hard six of the past seven days, mostly at night and during the early morning hours, which is very welcome and bringing the desert alive around these parts...
Too bad that the Bucks are also raining on the Suns parade and figure to be the next NBA champions, unless the undersized Suns, compared to the Bucks, can figure a way to overcome that disadvantage...
Inches, bulk, etc, translate into power and the Bucks are using that to their advantage and why Herm has gone to building team power through up-sizing the team roster...
Weather aside, what do you think about the business model called "Big League Advance" that was featured recently on HBO's Real Sports show..??
This business fronts a lot of money to minor league baseball players, that their analytics tell them will become big league stars, that will command huge salaries, once they make it to MLB...
By doing this, Big League Advance signs deals with these minor league players that guarantees BLA a nice percentage of the player's lifetime MLB earnings, in exchange for the money they receive from the business, while in the minor leagues...
The percentage in usually 10-15% of the player's big league lifetime earnings once they make it to the majors, which is a huge payoff since the upfront investment by BLA is paltry compared to the potential MLB payoff, when the player makes it there and becomes a star there...
Many of these players are from Central and South America, with families that are very poor, so getting a six-figure payment from BLA, while in the minor leagues, is too tempting to turn down, even if it costs them millions of dollars over their MLB baseball careers...
This business was started by a former minor league player, who also made it to the majors, where he did not star or have a great career, but saw that most minor league players live lives of squalor, trying to live on peanuts, at that level...
So far, the business has a high percentage of success stories where their analytical abilities have allowed them to thrive and expand their business that has become a multi-million dollar enterprise that could end up being in the billions over time...
It's interesting to see how their analytics is used to find players, that scouts often don't see as being potential star baseball players, which is why analytics has taken hold in all sports these days...
I wonder if our Sun Devils use any algorithms, besides getting bigger, stronger, faster players, to solve the recruiting dilemma posed by not having the same recruiting abilities as perennial Top 10 teams like Alabama and Ohio St, etc...
Aside from that question, what do you think about the Big League Advance business model..??
Are they unfairly taking advantage of unsophisticated players who are in the minor leagues..??
It should be noted that each minor league player, that signs an agreement with BLA, has to have a lawyer representing them, when they sign the agreements, so everything is straight-forward and aboveboard...
Is this any different from a bank or mortgage company giving loans to people to buy houses for a price..??
On another note, is the "NCAA now obsolete" due to the new NIL law, as Tim Dahlberg of the Associate Press points, out in an article in the sports page this morning in the Daily Star..??
He asks these two questions about the NCAA...
1) What purpose does the NCAA serve any more..??
2) Why shouldn't it simply be disbanded..??
The answer to the first question revolves around putting on championship events, especially like the Big Basketball Dance each spring, that make huge sums of money for programs around the country and for the NCAA itself...
The second answer revolves around the "policing network" that the NCAA provides to its members to try and make things fair for all participants while now, with the NIL legal deal in place, players can get financial inducements, above-board these days, rather than under-the-table, so to speak...
He concludes by stating that "college athletics are changing and changing fast and they no longer need an organization whose main purpose, for so many years, was to play defense against those changes, so it's time to face reality (that is)...the NCAA is no longer relevant going forward"...(my paraphrasing)
And, since it is now being left up to each individual state and university or college to govern this NIL process, has the NCAA become obsolete in your opinion..??
Well, it's stopped raining for the moment so I'm going to await your feedback while the desert dries out a bit down here...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
Today's Topic = Big League Advance
Woke up this morning to more rain down here in Geezerville...
It's rained pretty hard six of the past seven days, mostly at night and during the early morning hours, which is very welcome and bringing the desert alive around these parts...
Too bad that the Bucks are also raining on the Suns parade and figure to be the next NBA champions, unless the undersized Suns, compared to the Bucks, can figure a way to overcome that disadvantage...
Inches, bulk, etc, translate into power and the Bucks are using that to their advantage and why Herm has gone to building team power through up-sizing the team roster...
Weather aside, what do you think about the business model called "Big League Advance" that was featured recently on HBO's Real Sports show..??
This business fronts a lot of money to minor league baseball players, that their analytics tell them will become big league stars, that will command huge salaries, once they make it to MLB...
By doing this, Big League Advance signs deals with these minor league players that guarantees BLA a nice percentage of the player's lifetime MLB earnings, in exchange for the money they receive from the business, while in the minor leagues...
The percentage in usually 10-15% of the player's big league lifetime earnings once they make it to the majors, which is a huge payoff since the upfront investment by BLA is paltry compared to the potential MLB payoff, when the player makes it there and becomes a star there...
Many of these players are from Central and South America, with families that are very poor, so getting a six-figure payment from BLA, while in the minor leagues, is too tempting to turn down, even if it costs them millions of dollars over their MLB baseball careers...
This business was started by a former minor league player, who also made it to the majors, where he did not star or have a great career, but saw that most minor league players live lives of squalor, trying to live on peanuts, at that level...
So far, the business has a high percentage of success stories where their analytical abilities have allowed them to thrive and expand their business that has become a multi-million dollar enterprise that could end up being in the billions over time...
It's interesting to see how their analytics is used to find players, that scouts often don't see as being potential star baseball players, which is why analytics has taken hold in all sports these days...
I wonder if our Sun Devils use any algorithms, besides getting bigger, stronger, faster players, to solve the recruiting dilemma posed by not having the same recruiting abilities as perennial Top 10 teams like Alabama and Ohio St, etc...
Aside from that question, what do you think about the Big League Advance business model..??
Are they unfairly taking advantage of unsophisticated players who are in the minor leagues..??
It should be noted that each minor league player, that signs an agreement with BLA, has to have a lawyer representing them, when they sign the agreements, so everything is straight-forward and aboveboard...
Is this any different from a bank or mortgage company giving loans to people to buy houses for a price..??
On another note, is the "NCAA now obsolete" due to the new NIL law, as Tim Dahlberg of the Associate Press points, out in an article in the sports page this morning in the Daily Star..??
He asks these two questions about the NCAA...
1) What purpose does the NCAA serve any more..??
2) Why shouldn't it simply be disbanded..??
The answer to the first question revolves around putting on championship events, especially like the Big Basketball Dance each spring, that make huge sums of money for programs around the country and for the NCAA itself...
The second answer revolves around the "policing network" that the NCAA provides to its members to try and make things fair for all participants while now, with the NIL legal deal in place, players can get financial inducements, above-board these days, rather than under-the-table, so to speak...
He concludes by stating that "college athletics are changing and changing fast and they no longer need an organization whose main purpose, for so many years, was to play defense against those changes, so it's time to face reality (that is)...the NCAA is no longer relevant going forward"...(my paraphrasing)
And, since it is now being left up to each individual state and university or college to govern this NIL process, has the NCAA become obsolete in your opinion..??
Well, it's stopped raining for the moment so I'm going to await your feedback while the desert dries out a bit down here...
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
