Your athletic department now buys and sells in real markets: players, sponsorships, premium seats, donor gifts. Most of those decisions are still made without a defensible price. We priced the fastest markets on Wall Street. Now we price yours.
You move early. You move calm.
The House settlement put a hard cap on what you can pay athletes directly. You are now a general manager allocating a capped budget against rivals doing the same, and every commitment above $600 must survive a fair-market-value review. The valuations on offer are thin, unpublished, and estimate-based. The programs that price first will win the next five years.
Quintilian is a Wall Street data science firm. We find the pattern in the data you already hold and put a defensible dollar value on every asset your department trades: the roster you fund, the jersey patch you are about to sell, the sponsorships you sign, the collective revenue behind them, the seats and suites you sell, the donors you steward. The people who built pricing systems for the fastest markets on earth do the work themselves, on your data, in your environment. The expertise shows up in the work, not the introduction.
The work lands on the roster first, because that is where the clock is running. It expands across the department, because the engine underneath is the same.
Roster Room is the terminal for it: one screen where a program sees every athlete it holds and every athlete it could add, each carrying a live, defensible dollar value. It runs today across all 134 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs.
| Player | Pos | Production | Projected value | Market | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QB | high | $2.9M | $2.7M | underpriced | |
| EDGE | high | $2.5M | $2.4M | fair | |
| WR | rising | $1.3M | $0.8M | market low | |
| OL | proven | $1.0M | $1.0M | fair |
Every figure begins with evidence: production, recruiting composites, transfer-portal movement, eligibility, professional draft value, and the observed market, gathered from many sources, each dated and trust-weighted so a verified number outweighs a rumor. Fair value keeps the modeled figure, the market figure, and the recorded actual figure separate, and states which is which; where a program's own signed contract exists, it is the authoritative number and marks the model to market.
Retention is priced, not guessed: modeled departure exposure ranks the roster by the dollars at stake and states the retention price that closes them. Multi-year commitments are priced forward: every returning player carries a next-year value under a base path, a breakout path, and a regression path, with a band around the outcome, and repricing continues week by week as the season's evidence accumulates.
We keep the standard Wall Street regulation holds a trading desk to: every price carries its date, its sources, and an auditable line of reasoning; modeled figures are labeled as modeled; and the record stands ready for review years later. College athletics now demands the same discipline, with every deal above $600 clearing a fair-market-value review. Roster Room provides a fully compliant solution: the number arrives with the documentation that defends it.
Programs sit on the buy side. Agents sit on the sell side. We build the same intelligence for each, on opposite sides of the table, the way a real market prices: a bid and an ask, each defended.
Quintilian is a Wall Street data science firm working in higher education and college athletics. We put a defensible dollar value on every asset an athletic department trades: the roster, jersey patches and sponsorships, NIL collective revenue, tickets and suites, and donor programs, working on your data, in your environment.
Roster Room is Quintilian's roster valuation terminal for college football. It prices every athlete a program holds and every athlete it could add, with fair value, retention pricing, and multi-year forward pricing, and runs across all 134 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs.
Under the House settlement, the direct revenue-sharing cap is $21.3M per school for the 2026-27 academic year, up from $20.5M in year one, with increases built in across the settlement's ten-year life. A competitive Power Four football roster costs $30M to $55.2M all in.
Every price carries its date, its sources, and an auditable line of reasoning, the standard Wall Street regulation holds a trading desk to. Deals above $600 now clear a fair-market-value review, and our numbers arrive with the documentation that defends them.
A discovery brief returns specific figures for your program, on your own data, before any long-term commitment: what your roster is worth, where your seats are underpriced, which donors are ready. We earn when you earn.
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