(07-27-2016 03:21 PM)TribeNiner Wrote:  Problem is that this only shows "drafted." We all know that more than 46 players make the NBA in a year and plenty of UFDA join NFL teams. I suppose it's too difficult/time consuming to track who makes a roster for the first game rather than just drafted. And for something like basketball, think about all of the opportunities for good pay overseas- that would, I'm sure, greatly change the numbers.

ETA: I also wonder if the number of high school athletes is total athletes, or just graduating/senior athletes. If it's total athletes, then that's not an apples to apples comparison when you consider that you have 4 years' worth of chances to be drafted by the NBA (not just one draft). If it's just graduating seniors that are athletes, then that's a lot of graduating athletes every year (for instance, assuming 3 seniors per basketball team would mean there are more than 180,000 high school basketball teams - or more than 3,600 basketball teams per state).

Right, there are(traditionally) four opportunities to enter the draft as a basketball player, at least three times as a baseball player, at least twice as a football player...

Certainly doesn't undermine the whole thing, but I do agree that it's rather oversimplified.