Brian Spilbeler '03 is COO of Tracking Football

October 30, 2017

Brian Spilbeler headshot Brian Spilbeler, a 2003 graduate of DePauw University, is chief operating officer of Tracking Football. Based in Carmel, Indiana, the company bills itself as "the only scouting service available that gives football teams access to independently verified data on key athletic performance statistics, like track and field data, in an easy-to-use format."

A SportTechie story begins, "Before he became the NFL’s leading rookie sensation, Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt faced scouting report questions about his purportedly 'average explosion' and 'marginal downhill burst.' Though just a late third-round pick last April, Hunt has become the first player in league history to accrue at least 100 yards from scrimmage in each of his first six career games." Joe Lemire writes, "At least one service, however, never had any doubts about his underlying athleticism. With roughly 60 percent of NFL draftees having competed in high school track and field, the website Tracking Football has created a proprietary Player Athletic Index that takes a high school athlete’s height, weight, position and speed and power scores -- as indicated by the objective data of their track and field results -- to evaluate an athletic score that correlates to football success."

The text continues, "Tracking Football now has 44,000 players in its database, including every Football Bowl Subdivision (i.e. the former Division I-A) recruiting class since 2004. On this 0 to 5 scale, the average scholarship signee to a Power 5 conference school rates a 3.1; the average NFL draftee is a 3.8; the average All-Pro is a 4.2; and 94 percent of draft-eligible players with perfect 5.0 scores reach the NFL."