On the Predictive Efficiency of Past Performance and Physical Ability: The Case of the National Football League | Semantic Scholar
@article{Lyons2011OnTP,
title={On the Predictive Efficiency of Past Performance and Physical Ability: The Case of the National Football League},
author={Brian D. Lyons and Brian J. Hoffman and John W. Michel and Kevin J. Williams},
journal={Human Performance},
year={2011},
volume={24},
pages={158 - 172},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143657167}
}This study investigated the criterion-related validity of past performance and physical ability tests over time in a physically demanding context, the National Football League (NFL). Results suggested that an indicator of past performance, collegiate performance, engendered a stronger relationship with future NFL performance than a variety of physical ability tests administered during the NFL Combine. Unlike physical ability, past performance remained a valid predictor across four years of the…