Man that makes me happy to hear - I know it can get better...but I put a lot of time into sound fx, music...touches hoping that some are listening with headphones and getting more out of it. Thank you
@@michaelmackelvie seconding this - the production value in general is extremely high, but the sound direction in particular is really a cut above the rest
Don't forget to take into account that basketball starts fewer players per team. The fact that professional teams of every other sport have two to three times more players on their roster than the NBA, adds to the difficulty of "achieving the dream".
Maybe 12 regular guys, 3 on two-way. Out of 12, 10 will be on regular rotations. Hope he makes a video also on how difficult it is to stay even a year on the NBA; accounting injuries. I salute role players for surviving 10+ years.
@@Kai-gr6sg I think of the 4 NA sports, basketball has the longest average career of around 5 years. NFL and MLB is around 2-3 years. Maybe it's changed in the last 10 years though
Can we all just appreciate how much work went into this video. The marbles, the ramps, the cinematics, the audio, I tip my hat to you for this amazing quality!
I love how every video there’s always a different type of visualization. Your really put care into each video you create and you deserve more views. keep it up man!
Truly awesome vid, Michael. Love the cinematic approach. Also, wonderful editing. Note: Dont hesitate to add a tiny bit of compression/limiting to your voiceover. If done right, you'll preserve the dynamics in your inflection (which you do a wonderful job at) while smoothing your levels a bit (reducing the peaks and raising the low level audio). Helps to correct for small errors in mic technique/distance. If the compression increases sibilance or exaggerates plosives, you can correct those with notch filters.
@@justvibing2497 I’m not saying it’s easy but 1 in roughly a thousand odds is pretty decent. Of course basketball is heavily skewed by tall kids but it’s still much better than the odds for the general public.
To be honest most of these stats proves that making it to major sport leagues is attainable, yea of course 1 chance on 600/700 or a thousand might seem low, but when you actually think about it most kids be playing for fun and do not take it very seriously. If you were to have stats only accounting for the kids who actually put the work in, it will be like 1/20 or sum, still tough but reachable. (This work to a degree tho you still need genetic luck in sport like basketball)
Interesting that you think 98% of kids playing sports aren't working hard. You may be right, but it feels crazy. Subconscious logic makes me think its more 50/50, but again, you may be right.
@@nickduringtheday I played baseball in high school and there were two guys on my team that went on to play D1, and a couple others who played at smaller colleges, and they definitely worked harder than everyone else. They were the ones taking BP before and after practice, they'd always be up at the field on the occasions me and my dad would go up there on weekends, and they'd always push themselves harder when it came to cardio, usually doing a few more foul poles or stairs than the coaches made us do. Maybe making it to the MLB isn't achievable, but I think anyone who puts in the work could make it to the minors.
Man I remember seeing your video about the NFL draft, with less then 100 views and thinking "this is some great content, this guy will make it far" and a year later, you have grown substantially and still the quality of your videos is amazing, keep it up!
Can't imagine how long this took. Also to those saying I though it'll be harder to make it into the league were either not thinking about it or are on crack
wow those odds aren't too bad. if you're in a grade with roughly 300 other people (plenty of schools with classes even larger than that), you could expect someone to become pro or olympic athlete (100 kids in my class, but there were still two kids who went olympic) If you're a decent athlete it's probably worth giving it a shot!
Yea exactly, to be honest most of these stats proves that making it to major sport leagues is attainable, yea of course 1 chance on 600/700 or a thousand might seem low, but when you actually think about it most kids be playing for fun and do not take it very seriously. If you were to have stats only accounting for the kids who actually put the work in, it will be like 1/20 or sum, still tough but reachable.
No doubt a data dead end, but I'd bet that height at xx age is a critical factor as well. An athlete who is 6ft at 12 years old gets significantly more playing time, opportunities, coaching, etc then a 5ft 2in 12 year old. Even if they both end up 6ft 2in, the kid who was taller sooner has a significant advantage in my mind. I'd imagine it's similar to the January birthday thing as it relates to a Canadians odds of making the NHL. Great video as always!
Not necessarily. Anthony Davis famously got taller in high school and it helped (he developed guard skills before being the size of a center, so now he has both size and agility).
He also practiced the right skill at the right time, he made the 3pt shot popular so in the future we'll probably get more Steph's but he'll always be the goat shooter
Total number of players on active rosters at any given time: NBA: 450 (15 players on 30 teams) NHL: 640 (20 players on 32 teams) MLB: 780 (26 players on 30 teams) NFL: 1696 (53 players on 32 teams)
This is active but its worth keeping in mind how many actually play. Around 60 men will play for an MLB team at least once in a given year due to injuries and other vacancies. Obviously some guys get traded so there's overlap, but this is true for all of the sports sans maybe NBA basketball. And there's not exactly a lot of shame in being a guy who made it but never became more than a fringe platoon guy, you're still among the best in the world.
Honestly the odds for soccer, the NFL, and hockey are higher than I thought. You just need to be the best player in a mid sized metro area. I think the ratio in regard to active players is the better ratio than general population as those represent who is trying.
my guess is that a lot of players who debut in the EPL are from relegation teams that go back down after the end of the season. Same with players from the academies, they will play them a couple of games but then try to sell them the the lower divisions or to other leagues in Europe. The debut may not mean much more than playing 2 games as a sub. My guess is that a lot of newies don't last long in american sports, but these are whole teams of players who are professional with experience just playing in a lower league.
I too was surprised, but there are a lot who make the league for only a brief time that get counted in the numerator. Also, these odds aren't considering geographic differences within the US. Per capita more NFL defensive backs hail from heavily-black Southern states than from say, New England or the upper Midwest.
Another great vid. Its "easier" than thought to make it to the 4 big pro leagues in the USA. But I guess Muggsy Bogues faced the worst odds between them all and yet was an NBA star for 14 years. Internationally, the toughest odds are for soccer players. Number one sport in almost every country, but just about 10 leagues paying good money (including some 2nd divisions of the big four European countries). But soccer is still the most boring sport, I know it, I played it, I grew up with it in Germany.
The statistics of the odds of playing in the Premier league used only work if every single player in the Premier league was English, which they’re not. Still love your videos though
Yes, but his main point here is basketball is very discriminatory on height. Anyone can play football or any other sports, but in basketball, you need both the height and wingspan.
also the numbers of debuts is not as clear due to promotion, most of those teams go back down and if they stay the players will be replaced. Seems like a much more precarious position than getting chosen by an NBA team
1. This was amazing! Tough work with the marbles. Much respect. 2. THIS is how you tell a story with data. Man amazing analysis, especially the social piece!
Loving the content and the overall quality is astonishing. For future videos it would be great if we could get a metric reference to the imperial "X.x foot" height. ;)
7:00 Just to note: The first recognized pro basketball leagues are the NBL and the MSBL. Also, while an NBL did merge with the BAA to create the NBA, that was a different entity than the original.
Your point about European (and non American) players in the NBA being predominantly taller and more often playing the big man positions is reflected in the Euroleague. Forwards and center are usually European, African, South American. But guards especially point guards are usually American. Europe doesn't produce enough point guards that's why that's often the position that is naturalised for the European national teams.
If you're around good athletes you'll have a few pro friends when you grow up. I went to high school and grew up with/played with 4 NFL players, 2 NBA players along with a Harlem Globetrotter, and ran with an Olympic record holder.
Ngl, I had to look at the title again halfway to see if I was still watching this video because I was confused on the marbles going through a rollercoaster
Look baby Michael dropped another banger
I thought you were calling him baby Michael and that is much funnier
@@joanamarques6184 🤣
Ghey 😂
Real
Truly mean it when I say your audio production is the best on TH-cam. I Always wear headphones when I watch your videos.
Man that makes me happy to hear - I know it can get better...but I put a lot of time into sound fx, music...touches hoping that some are listening with headphones and getting more out of it. Thank you
@@michaelmackelvie seconding this - the production value in general is extremely high, but the sound direction in particular is really a cut above the rest
I wonder how many marbles were lost in the making of this video 🧐
Hopefully not the friends we made along the way
Don't forget to take into account that basketball starts fewer players per team. The fact that professional teams of every other sport have two to three times more players on their roster than the NBA, adds to the difficulty of "achieving the dream".
Maybe 12 regular guys, 3 on two-way. Out of 12, 10 will be on regular rotations. Hope he makes a video also on how difficult it is to stay even a year on the NBA; accounting injuries. I salute role players for surviving 10+ years.
@@Kai-gr6sg I think of the 4 NA sports, basketball has the longest average career of around 5 years. NFL and MLB is around 2-3 years. Maybe it's changed in the last 10 years though
@@TheHolySC . Yes, it changed.
NFL: 3.3 Years
NBA: 4.8 Years
NHL: 5 Years
MLB: 5.6 Years
Rest in Peace to Dikembe. Legend of the game
And Pete rose on the same day…
Once you go Michael MacKelvie you never go back
The greatest rabbit hole you can ever go down on TH-cam
Jxmyhighroller has to be scared
Lol dey buttes. Sorry great vid but that one word was so distracting
Agree lol I almost quit the video after the 4th DayBuewt
How the hell do you keep getting better
This might be the most weird video yet. 10/10, would recommend.
the "debut" pronunciation is wrong. Should be pronounced "dey-byooz". not "dey-byoots".
Can we all just appreciate how much work went into this video. The marbles, the ramps, the cinematics, the audio, I tip my hat to you for this amazing quality!
Now that's some high effort filmmakin' right there.
I love how every video there’s always a different type of visualization. Your really put care into each video you create and you deserve more views. keep it up man!
Rip Dikembe Mutombo 🕊
RIP Dikembe Mutombo
I have enjoyed several of your films. But, it's really hard for me to listen to you pronounce debut as "day-butte" every time 😂
Truly awesome vid, Michael. Love the cinematic approach. Also, wonderful editing.
Note: Dont hesitate to add a tiny bit of compression/limiting to your voiceover. If done right, you'll preserve the dynamics in your inflection (which you do a wonderful job at) while smoothing your levels a bit (reducing the peaks and raising the low level audio). Helps to correct for small errors in mic technique/distance. If the compression increases sibilance or exaggerates plosives, you can correct those with notch filters.
Not gonna lie the odds from playing a sport at highwchool level to going pro is better odds then I thought tbh.
@@justvibing2497 I’m not saying it’s easy but 1 in roughly a thousand odds is pretty decent. Of course basketball is heavily skewed by tall kids but it’s still much better than the odds for the general public.
Not tonight babe Michael Mackelvi just dropped
Algorithm comment here.
Great work as usual
Does anyone know what version of Africa is being sung at 8:15.
To be honest most of these stats proves that making it to major sport leagues is attainable, yea of course 1 chance on 600/700 or a thousand might seem low, but when you actually think about it most kids be playing for fun and do not take it very seriously. If you were to have stats only accounting for the kids who actually put the work in, it will be like 1/20 or sum, still tough but reachable. (This work to a degree tho you still need genetic luck in sport like basketball)
Interesting that you think 98% of kids playing sports aren't working hard. You may be right, but it feels crazy. Subconscious logic makes me think its more 50/50, but again, you may be right.
@@nickduringtheday I played baseball in high school and there were two guys on my team that went on to play D1, and a couple others who played at smaller colleges, and they definitely worked harder than everyone else. They were the ones taking BP before and after practice, they'd always be up at the field on the occasions me and my dad would go up there on weekends, and they'd always push themselves harder when it came to cardio, usually doing a few more foul poles or stairs than the coaches made us do. Maybe making it to the MLB isn't achievable, but I think anyone who puts in the work could make it to the minors.
Man I remember seeing your video about the NFL draft, with less then 100 views and thinking "this is some great content, this guy will make it far" and a year later, you have grown substantially and still the quality of your videos is amazing, keep it up!
That’s not a high-production value video about sports statistics, that’s a goddamn work of art.
The amount of work put into this video is incredible. Can't wait to see your channel blow up even more.
Speechless. Your best video amongst already excellent work. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Always banger videos. And so different from the media narratives that so many other content creators focus on.
Can't imagine how long this took. Also to those saying I though it'll be harder to make it into the league were either not thinking about it or are on crack
Your videos are so well done and are extremely unique, you always pick some fascinating topics!
Nfl most popular but baseball most pay. Talking about in America
Like that outro. Being a pro is the dream, but it's not the only thing possible to get out of sport.
Also RIP Dikembe Mutombo
Consolation prize for men is that there’s 3.95 Billion women in the world
wow those odds aren't too bad. if you're in a grade with roughly 300 other people (plenty of schools with classes even larger than that), you could expect someone to become pro or olympic athlete (100 kids in my class, but there were still two kids who went olympic)
If you're a decent athlete it's probably worth giving it a shot!
Yea exactly, to be honest most of these stats proves that making it to major sport leagues is attainable, yea of course 1 chance on 600/700 or a thousand might seem low, but when you actually think about it most kids be playing for fun and do not take it very seriously. If you were to have stats only accounting for the kids who actually put the work in, it will be like 1/20 or sum, still tough but reachable.
This was amazing. Thank you.
Cannot get enough of your videos. Keep up the great work
Michael you are on the mount rushmore of sport video essays
The pipelines for gymnastics or tennis are probably crazy too
This is becoming my favorite TH-cam channel
Incredible. Keep'em coming man. So good!
The work put in this video is mind-blowing
No doubt a data dead end, but I'd bet that height at xx age is a critical factor as well. An athlete who is 6ft at 12 years old gets significantly more playing time, opportunities, coaching, etc then a 5ft 2in 12 year old. Even if they both end up 6ft 2in, the kid who was taller sooner has a significant advantage in my mind. I'd imagine it's similar to the January birthday thing as it relates to a Canadians odds of making the NHL.
Great video as always!
Not necessarily. Anthony Davis famously got taller in high school and it helped (he developed guard skills before being the size of a center, so now he has both size and agility).
What jxmyhighroller wants to be
This puts into perspective how insanely good Steph Curry is to be one of the greats and the undisputed greatest shooter in NBA history.
He also practiced the right skill at the right time, he made the 3pt shot popular so in the future we'll probably get more Steph's but he'll always be the goat shooter
What the ….. did I just watch? I was hooked, 10/10 would recommend. New sub earned.
Thanks Josh!
Total number of players on active rosters at any given time:
NBA: 450 (15 players on 30 teams)
NHL: 640 (20 players on 32 teams)
MLB: 780 (26 players on 30 teams)
NFL: 1696 (53 players on 32 teams)
This is active but its worth keeping in mind how many actually play. Around 60 men will play for an MLB team at least once in a given year due to injuries and other vacancies. Obviously some guys get traded so there's overlap, but this is true for all of the sports sans maybe NBA basketball.
And there's not exactly a lot of shame in being a guy who made it but never became more than a fringe platoon guy, you're still among the best in the world.
he never misses
Honestly the odds for soccer, the NFL, and hockey are higher than I thought. You just need to be the best player in a mid sized metro area.
I think the ratio in regard to active players is the better ratio than general population as those represent who is trying.
my guess is that a lot of players who debut in the EPL are from relegation teams that go back down after the end of the season. Same with players from the academies, they will play them a couple of games but then try to sell them the the lower divisions or to other leagues in Europe. The debut may not mean much more than playing 2 games as a sub. My guess is that a lot of newies don't last long in american sports, but these are whole teams of players who are professional with experience just playing in a lower league.
Your way off bud. It's extremely hard
I too was surprised, but there are a lot who make the league for only a brief time that get counted in the numerator.
Also, these odds aren't considering geographic differences within the US. Per capita more NFL defensive backs hail from heavily-black Southern states than from say, New England or the upper Midwest.
Another great vid.
Its "easier" than thought to make it to the 4 big pro leagues in the USA. But I guess Muggsy Bogues faced the worst odds between them all and yet was an NBA star for 14 years.
Internationally, the toughest odds are for soccer players. Number one sport in almost every country, but just about 10 leagues paying good money (including some 2nd divisions of the big four European countries).
But soccer is still the most boring sport, I know it, I played it, I grew up with it in Germany.
See you on the front page 🫡
This channel is 1 : 31,450
The statistics of the odds of playing in the Premier league used only work if every single player in the Premier league was English, which they’re not. Still love your videos though
Yes, but his main point here is basketball is very discriminatory on height. Anyone can play football or any other sports, but in basketball, you need both the height and wingspan.
also the numbers of debuts is not as clear due to promotion, most of those teams go back down and if they stay the players will be replaced. Seems like a much more precarious position than getting chosen by an NBA team
Genuinely, I think you have some of the best video and audio production I have ever seen on youtube. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
Great video, I will add one thing, the likelihood of you making the premier league is probably even slimmer because your competition is global.
1. This was amazing! Tough work with the marbles. Much respect.
2. THIS is how you tell a story with data. Man amazing analysis, especially the social piece!
Loving the content and the overall quality is astonishing.
For future videos it would be great if we could get a metric reference to the imperial "X.x foot" height. ;)
7:00
Just to note:
The first recognized pro basketball leagues are the NBL and the MSBL. Also, while an NBL did merge with the BAA to create the NBA, that was a different entity than the original.
In England, you can go PRO in the 2nd and 3rd tier division aswell. So a bit misleading calling it “pro” only in EPL.
You forgot a foreign born guard: Dennis "The Menace" Schröder.
Your point about European (and non American) players in the NBA being predominantly taller and more often playing the big man positions is reflected in the Euroleague. Forwards and center are usually European, African, South American. But guards especially point guards are usually American. Europe doesn't produce enough point guards that's why that's often the position that is naturalised for the European national teams.
If you're around good athletes you'll have a few pro friends when you grow up. I went to high school and grew up with/played with 4 NFL players, 2 NBA players along with a Harlem Globetrotter, and ran with an Olympic record holder.
The main thing I got from this is Black parents should make a return to raising their kids on baseball because basketball aint it.
Wow. Absolutely stunned by the cinematography and audio production in this video. Keep it up!
Commenting for this man’s algorithm. Should be the biggest sports page on TH-cam.
Amazing video and well done with the format and style. Statistics are so cool when you do such an amazing job captivating us .
Ngl, I had to look at the title again halfway to see if I was still watching this video because I was confused on the marbles going through a rollercoaster
The odds of me tearing up any time someone tosses in Clair de Lune and is able to tell a story as well as you do are 1:1. Another fantastic project!
You dropped this 👑. Seriously love your videos man, keep up the great work!!!
I feel like we could use marbles to visualize the odds of someone making the same quality of video that this guy (and his team) make 😂
This is great. The story telling with the data and the production value, all top notch.
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS! (he's too good)
wow left Sabonis off the solid center position......disrespectful
How is this guy so good at videography. I get locked in every video
Such a great video. Always a good day when I see you posted. Keep up the great work!
Amazing video! You always on point Michael!
Come for content, stay for the S-Tier cinematography
Your Marble Maps are crazy! ✨ (crazy good of course)
11:07 - like Hakeem, he played In the NBA, outside of the US.
Quick sit down, Michael Dropped!!
You always make the best sports videos you're genuinely awesome in every way
The production is top notch!! This channel is sooo under appreciated
Seeing that you posted a video really makes my day! Thank you!
My only question in the entire video is why are you pronouncing it "dey-byoots" lol
One of the best videos i have ever seen on statistics in this platform. Amazing!
I was holding my phone upside down at the end of the video and thought that was the artists intent 😅😂
i will NEVER look at 40000 marbles the same.
6:02 - believe me Michael it shows, it really shows.
RIP Dikembe
He goes to great lengths every time- that'sa lot of marbles.
Michael has emerged from the kitchen with another feast
Except basketball was invented by a Canadian
Babe wake up we have another Mikey banger
I feel lucky to be tall enough for the NBA
great video
These videos are so good. Keep up the great work!
Summary - if you want to become a pro athlete, you have practically no chance.
Truly the best youtube channel
sacrifice for the algorithm.
so basically its worth trying
"The pinnacle is not the point"