Consulting Services

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Combines and ID Events

DSA Labs has collectively been involved in hundreds of ID events, tryouts, and combines.

✅ 📊 Let us power your evaluations

✅ 🎯 Objectively identify talent

✅ ⚙️ Help you with your operations.

  • Read HERE how StatLink helps streamline evaluations, identify talent, and add value to your events.

    Most recently, DSA Labs provided the registration, evaluation, and analysis tools for the OTB NCAA Transfer Portal Showcase in December 2024.

Talent Identification

🔍 Need to know who to draft or sign? StatLink simplifies your scouting process by aggregating player data from all major sources into detailed scouting assessments, depth charts, and draft boards.

✅ 📊 Comprehensive Player Rankings – Instantly access scouting insights and performance data.


✅ 📂 Multiple Formats – Get rankings in an easy-to-use Excel sheet or exclusive access via the StatLink Manager Dashboard Depth Chart.


✅ ⏳ Save Time & Resources – Identify top talent efficiently, eliminating hundreds of hours of manual research.

🚀 Make data-driven decisions and sign the right players—faster.

  • Working with DSA Labs, Kaleigh Fratkin of the PWHL Boston Pride, we identified key player statistics (source InStat) that predict professional success. We then ranked the entire NCAA player population based on data from the 2023-2024 season. The result: a comprehensive, objective assessment of future PWHL talent! Top 10 are shown here.

Player Valuations

💰 What Is a Player Worth?

A fundamental question for managers and decision makers. 

At DSA Labs, we leverage years of experience in objective, data-driven analysis and regression modeling to provide accurate player valuations.

✅ 📊 Data-Driven Insights – Remove bias and make informed financial decisions.

✅ 📈 Advanced Regression Models – Predict player value based on performance metrics, market trends, and impact analysis.

✅ 🎯 Smarter Investments – Ensure strategic roster decisions that maximize performance and budget efficiency.

🚀 Let data guide your next signing.

  • An analysis of Premier League forwards produced some other interesting results. At the end of his career, Wayne Rooney was one of the lower performing forwards, particularly with respect to his hefty salary. A number of prominent strikers, including Lukaku, Salah, and Kane were clearly undervalued at the time; all subsequently signed much larger deals bringing their salaries in-line with their performance. It is also interesting to note that the performance of forwards in the EPL is more strongly correlated with salary than for the midfielders above. This points to the difficulty in quantitatively evaluating players in the “beautiful game”, particularly at midfield! The modeling and prediction tools we have developed at DSA permit straightforward solutions to this challenge and produce results that are easy to interpret.

  • Looking at EPL midfielders during the 2015-2018 time period, we created a composite ranking of defensive performance, playmaking ability, and shooting & goal scoring. Examining player composite rankings against their average salary during this time period yielded some interesting results. In terms of all-around performance, both Deli Alli and Alex Iwobi would seem to be underpaid. Sure enough, both saw their annual salary increase significantly in the ensuing years. The big names in EPL do indeed bubble to the top in terms of ability and compensation. Some, however, like James Milner are commanding larger salaries than we believe their ability dictates. By giving managers a quantitative means of assessing player value , DSA can help find those hidden gems as well as avoid the overvalued signings.

Key Performance Predictors

With so much data available, how do you find the signal in the noise?

Which aspects of player performance are truly central to building a winning organization?

At DSA Labs, we’ve developed a suite of advanced algorithms designed to:

✅ 🔍 Extract Key Performance Indicators – Identify the most critical factors that drive success.

✅ 📈 Predict Winning Outcomes – Analyze player and team performance trends that correlate with victory.

✅ 🎯 Optimize Decision-Making – Provide clear, actionable insights for scouting, recruiting, and roster management.

🚀 Turn raw data into a competitive advantage with DSA Labs.

  • What are the individual player performance measures that predict the strength of a team?

    At DSA, we seek to objectively provide answers by tying our measures of player performance to our measures of team strength. Application of our analysis to EPL game data from the 2015-2018 time period produced a well-defined (predictive!) relationship between these two measures. Such analyses are critical to understanding which traits to focus on in player selections and which aspects of the game require attention in training.

Defensive Ability (Top 20)

Defensive Ability (Bottom 20)

  • Our analysis of La Liga data (2015-2018) contained a number of interesting results. Here, we focus on defenders and demonstrate how different analyses can yield different results. First, we ranked all defenders in the league on their ability to win challenges and successfully anticipate passes. Sergio Ramos leads all 558 defenders for whom data were recorded. Notable players in the bottom 20 include Real Madrid left back Odriozola.

Passing & Playmaking

  • We also considered the ability of defenders to generate opportunities, goals, and assists. Here Odriozola shines, finishing first and just ahead of Barcelona playmaker Jordi Alba. In fact, in looking at the complete list of rankings one can see the tradeoffs coaches and managers must make every game in balancing conceding vs. generating opportunities!

  • Filipe Luis is the only defender to appear in the top 25 for both his ability to win challenges and generate offense. During the time covered by this data set, Filipe was a fixture in the back with Atletico Madrid. Not surprisingly, he played a crucial role for the squad in both league play and Champions League competition, earning ”best defender” in the Spanish League in 2013.

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