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So let’s share a little experiment – you guys have to do your part, just like I will do mine...
Mr Body figures the SEC is better than the ABA (and I can’t pull the post up to link it, because search is broken... Slovenian servers up the ass forever).
Here’s a link to the SEC page for 2013/14.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb.../men/2015.html
14 teams, 15 or so players per team (~210 total). I picked 13/14 as that gives the players 10 years to develop their game and get onto a pro team somewhere.
Your part of this is to look through those rosters, looking the players up and figure out who:
1) Had enough talent to ever get money to play in a real pro league (ie. where management can just buy a replacement player...)?
Be generous about it; I don’t care if it’s China, Puerto Rica, the G-league, wherever. Just somewhere where you get paid to play and don’t need a day job to put food on the table.
2)Was good enough to get into a such a league in the 14/15 season (ie, in theory, was good enough to play in a pro league in 13/14 as well...)
Figure out the percentage of those 200 or so players who meet 1 and then 2. I’m guessing you will hit less than 30/210 for 1) and 15/210 for 2)
I will do the ABA side of things. In the ABA, the answer for both 1) and 2) is 100%...
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