ESPN: Life of an NBA analytics consultant

[He Filled it Up]

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[DByrne86]

I make well into 6-figures. I applied for an analytics/developer role with the Hornets. I was willing to come down to 70K thinking the salary could be that low. I mean it's a dream job working for a NBA franchise doing something with stats which I spend hours and hours a week on anyway. But I didn't even get an interview. It turns out there were a ton of qualified applicants who'd leave money behind to do geeky stuff with a sports franchise.

That's so dumb. What do they think is going to happen, they're going to be partying with the NBA players, mingling with the wives courtside? Plus, the article mentions them working 60+ hours a week, so they are making an extremely low hourly rate for the opportunity to sit in the office of an NBA franchise.

60 hours a week is NOTHING if you love your job. It's play. I've put in 14-18 hours a day, 7 days a week for weeks at times in different jobs when working on new products and releases. And most of the time it was work that I wasn't particularly passionate or care about. You do this with the understanding that you have down times in the year where you work from home doing nothing, get off at 2 pm and get rewarded in bonuses.

I am sure there is no NBA analytics guy working 60 hours per week 12 months a year.

I get your point now. I love my new job I started a couple of months ago, and I actually look forward to being there. Although, 14-18 hours a day, 7 days a week still sounds like WAY too much to me. What is it your passionate about? I only ask because I would love to find something that I love so much I would want to work on it every waking hour of my week.

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Ben Alamar is a tool

[Froob]

Really OKC couldn't afford to move his family? Well I guess owners don't make it big if they spend freely lol.

[Dr Pepper]

These are skills for which companies such as Google and Facebook pay quite handsomely.

Realistically, aspiring NBA analysts must be willing to take at least a 50 percent pay cut from what they could earn elsewhere.

So what else is new? Look at the film VFX or video game industry - tech people need unions or representation but they don't fight for it, and end up getting outsourced or devalued in the process. If you want to make money work elsewhere like @ Google. Cue the tiny violin.