Cerebro Sports CEO Ryan Girardot on Building Analytic Basketball Scouting Tools to Improve Decision Making and How He Convinced Mark Cuban to Invest

Ep. 61 Learning Basketball with Ryan Girardot! @rmgbuildsRyan Girardot is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cerebro Sports, a basketball scouting data company that is out to collect every box score on earth and put it in one place.Today we learn about Ryan Girardot's journey to running a basketball data company, how he convinced Mark Cuban to invest, building analytic scouting tools to improve decision making, and the role of analytics in basketball scouting.Timeline:00:00Introduction & Background: Ryan Girardot’s Journey to Cerebro04:29The Evolution of Player Data Tracking, Mark Cuban investing in Cerebro09:02Understanding C-RAM and 5MS - Cerebro’s Player Evaluation Metrics13:13Creating Player Archetypes through Cerebro with Data Visualizations 23:14Running a Basketball Data Company: The Cerebro Team’s Dynamics25:56Analytics as a Tool for Decision Making26:34Predictive Modeling in Basketball28:07Communicating Data to Players30:59How Cerebro can assist Players, Skill Development Coaches, College Scouts, Front Office Evaluators37:41Breaking News: The Global Scoreboard Initiative and Future Possible Partnerships41:04The Role of Data in Scouting: a tool that tells you the odds that can create advtange and improve decision making in the front office, in the practice gym, and in the middle of the game right on the court45:00Advice for Aspiring Basketball Analysts + Ryan’s Cerebro Data Viz Portfolio