and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining

the show is Ben Brown who is the director of research and development for

sumer sports as you guys know we always have an analytics research and

research and development for sumer sports as you guys know we always have an analytic spin on our analysis here leading up to the draft and Ben put out a very interesting article that caught my eye that was using text mining and

you're going to explain how this exactly works to gather from Dane

Brugglers the Beast and his scouting reports and then draw correlations between this year's draft class and the

quarterbacks of the past. So explain this thing in a way that won't make anyone immediately shut off the show because it is

Fascinating and I want to dive into it. So what's up Ben a really cool idea and project that you did there at Super Sports.

Yeah, definitely.

Thanks for having a man.

Obviously, you know, I love, you know,

subscribing to the Purple Insider.

I love listening to all your takes.

I got to, I got to run it back with my you know listening to my colleagues tasian

Ericier talked to you last week about you know like the analytics roundtable

Mike Renner my former colleague at PFF there's just been like a ton of really great content that you put out. I think it's really exciting, you know, for me personally, like I am, I don't know if I'm a closet Vikings fan at this point. I kind of wear my emotions on my sleeve a little bit still more than I should from my

Viking's fandom but like this is very much you know and I think you'd agree with

this like the most anticipated draft we've had in quite some time to be honest with you so I can't wait basically so I'm really

excited to talk about it but yeah let's let's talk text analytics so I do think you know there's a little bit of you know and even

going back to your discussion last week with Eric and Tage like the analytic forward-facing movement is very much trying to push a lot of like

Stat-based analysis that can, you know, better predict college to pro performance.

And in a lot of ways, especially at certain positions, I would say we have, you know, struggled

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