Combine performance, draft position and playing position are poor predictors of player career outcomes in the Australian Football League

Benjamin J Gogos, Paul Larkin, Jade A Z Haycraft, Neil French Collier and Sam Robertson

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: Physical testing-based draft combines are undertaken across various sporting codes to inform talent selection. To determine the explanatory power of the Australian football league (AFL) draft combine, participants drafted between 1999–2016 (n = 1488) were assessed. Testing performance, draft selection order and playing position, AFL matches played, AFL player ranking points and AFL player rating points were collected as career outcomes. Boosted regression tree analysis revealed that position and draft selection order were the most explanatory variables of career outcomes. Linear modelling based on testing results is able to explain 4% of matches played and 3% of in-game performance measures. Each individual combine test explained

Date: 2020
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