Prospects coming out of college haven’t played competitively since March. Who knows if someone has gotten better? Or maybe worse … “I think you’ll see a lot of teams lean more towards drafting based on analytic models just because it will help save GMs and scouting directors,” the aforementioned anonymous scout said. “Just because they can point to, ‘Oh, we didn’t get them in our buildings, so we put more weight on what the numbers said from the season.’ It’s always risky, I understand. But I think more teams will lean more on that. It protects them. It covers their ass a little bit.”