Swamped with a book deadline, I won’t be writing much today or for the rest of the week. I’ll try to send something each day. My friend Carl McGown came through bigtime, sending this gem of a link on how well the NFL combine can predict how much success a college player will have in the NFL. The short answer? Not too well.

It’s the Jeremy Lin Syndrome: How do we use current performance to predict future performance?

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