A pro GM, in a smaller, stranger economy.
The college GM is a newly real role, the operator who runs the collective, the portal budget, and the roster, and the engine grades him as a named person on the same terms as a pro GM: acquisition, retention, spend efficiency, and managing up, measured against the resources he was handed. It assesses his roster-building under the amateur constraints, the 34-man fully-funded cap, the eligibility clock, and the calendar, priced through the amateur money engine, and keeps the three bets apart. The record is read against the budget, because the job is wins per dollar of an opaque pool, not raw talent bought.
Rate the pillars. Read the record against the budget.
The college GM, the newly real role that runs the collective, the portal budget, and the roster, is rated on the operator pillars the way a pro GM is: acquisition, retention, spend efficiency, and managing up. The record is separated from the situation, because a GM at a lavishly-funded power program and one squeezing wins from a thin baseball budget are different reads.
The GM grades a 79 as a budget-efficiency operator, strongest on retention, and the record is read against the resources: GM B, who beat a thin budget by a lot, is a better operator read than GM A, who beat a lavish one by a little. The job is wins per dollar, not talent bought. Rate the operator against the budget he was handed, not the roster the money bought.
Illustrative engine read on the real college-GM operator rating (acquisition, retention, spend efficiency, managing up, the record separated from the resources). Composite GMs, demonstration figures.
The most team-KR movement per dollar of an opaque pool.
The GM's roster-building is assessed against the amateur constraints: the 34-man fully-funded cap, the eligibility clock, and the portal-and-recruiting calendar, priced through the Amateur Bonus-Pool and NIL engine. A good college GM builds the most team-KR movement per dollar of a small, opaque budget.
Building under the 34-man cap, the clock, and the calendar, this GM turns a $1.4M pool into +7.2 Team KR, well above the league-average +4.8, for a real efficiency edge. The college job is the most team-KR movement per dollar of an opaque budget, and the engine prices exactly that. A good college GM builds the most team-KR movement per dollar of a small, opaque pool.
Illustrative engine read on the real roster-building under constraints (the 34-man cap, the eligibility clock, the calendar, spend efficiency as team-KR movement per dollar priced through file 05). Composite GM, demonstration figures flagged current-as-of.
Coordinate the three bets. Never merge them.
The GM read coordinates but never merges the three bets: the player bet, are the KRs right; the projection bet, what these amateurs become, including the draft-loss risk on the best ones; and the institutional bet, can this program develop and keep them. A failure should trace to the term that broke, so the three are reported separately, each with confidence.
The player bet is solid, the projection bet carries real draft-loss risk on the two best arms, and the institutional bet is positive on development and retention, each reported separately with its own confidence. Coordinated, never merged, so a failure is traceable to the bet that actually broke. Three bets, coordinated but never merged, so a failure traces to the term that broke.
Illustrative engine read on the real three-bet discipline for the college GM (player, projection with draft-loss risk, institutional), reported separately with confidence. Composite GM, demonstration figures.
The college GM is a pro GM in a smaller, stranger economy, and the engine grades him as one: on acquisition, retention, spend, and managing up, measured against the resources he was handed, keeping the three bets apart. The record is read against the budget, because the job is wins per dollar of an opaque pool, not raw talent bought. The player, projection, and institutional bets are coordinated but never merged, so a failure traces to the term that broke, and the draft-loss risk on the best amateurs is priced into the projection rather than hidden.
Grade the operator. Against his budget.
The College GM is rated as a named operator on acquisition, retention, spend, and managing up, against the resources handed to him, with his roster-building assessed under the 34-man cap and the clock and the three bets kept separate, each with confidence.