Draft Day Efficiency

Scouting for players, gathering info on prospects — it’s a year-round process. “We wanted to give our decision makers a place that has all of the information at their fingertips,” says Siam.

In Siam’s estimation, however, there’s one aspect of the room that makes an immediate — and profound — impact. Gathering all the available info on a particular available draftee has become much more streamlined — the team can call up all the data they need at once. “If there are 500 players available, and we’re saving two to three minutes per player on simply calling up data, imagine how much more efficient that process has now become,” says Siam.

“The speed of the system is of utmost importance — and the reliability of it on draft days is very important,” says Schoen. The Crestron Control screens at a user’s disposal allow decision-makers to call up anything they need on players or picks, from numbers to film. “With just the touch of the screen from the Crestron pad, we can select anything we need; we can program it in there to go on whatever screen we want.”

“If we want to see a player’s stats, their medical history, the draft board — it's just amazing how it works,” he adds. Call up a player, and the info is there automatically. Pick that player, and stats and data can shift from screen to screen without a prompt. Everything happens in precisely the way that the Giants specified. “The speed and reliability of this system is uncanny,” says Schoen.