Basic Athletic Measurement, the official combine testing service used by the NBA draft, has partnered with youth sports analytics platform Ballogy. The platform’s testing app will now include exclusive BAM data relating to performance of youth players at camps, clinics, and tournaments.
Ballogy’s youth training program consists of contests and drills with real-time feedback from certified coaches. Performance results are stored in Ballogy’s database. In partnership with BAM, an official BAMScore that tracks data including body measurements, power, speed, agility, reaction time, strength, and stability and balance will be recorded within the Ballogy app—available on both iOS and Android.
“There is a fundamental issue impacting all sports—accurate athletic assessment,” said Brett Brungardt, Founder of BAM, in a press release. “Ballogy and BAM share in the mission to address this bias and inconsistency in the market by offering objective measurements and testing protocols utilizing the latest processes and technology.”
Basketball is the main sport that both companies are most deeply involved with. Ballogy previously partnered with the San Antonio Spurs to track youth basketball players in junior high and high school. BAM claims that its athlete measurement system is akin to “an athletic SAT” score.
SportTechie Takeaway
Youth testing allows professional and collegiate sports teams to track the development of players years before deciding which athletes they may want to draft or recruit. Ballogy is now able to expose junior high and high school level athletes who participate in its training camps to the same performance testing system that BAM deploys for collegiate athletes at the NBA draft combine.