NFL Draft Industrial Complex Con
Odds on getting starter by round
one- 50-60 percent
Two- 35 percent
Three- 20 percent
The league creates a fantasy about all these great players but the bust factor is quite high. Every year in March we’re told not to build thru free agency, but thru the draft. But then once the season starts then we’re told about the development time needed for players.
Keep all this in mind as Vikings do little to nothing.
smleh wrote:
Odds on getting starter by roundone- 50-60 percentTwo- 35 percentThree- 20 percentThe league creates a fantasy about all these great players but the bust factor is quite high. Every year in March we’re told not to build thru free agency, but thru the draft. But then once the season starts then we’re told about the development time needed for players.Keep all this in mind as Vikings do little to nothing.
I think the league gives us data and hype and fans create the fantasy. The formula certainly works.
smleh wrote:
Odds on getting starter by roundone- 50-60 percentTwo- 35 percentThree- 20 percentThe league creates a fantasy about all these great players but the bust factor is quite high. Every year in March we’re told not to build thru free agency, but thru the draft. But then once the season starts then we’re told about the development time needed for players.Keep all this in mind as Vikings do little to nothing.
Every NFL team values draft picks like they're antimatter. You can get a 3X All Pro guard for a 3rd and a 5th, when the odds of drafting a similar player anywhere in the draft are extremely low. Money obviously plays a big factor in the increased value of draft picks and the diminished value of veterans, but it seems to be overregarded.
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Bullazin wrote:
I think the league gives us data and hype and fans create the fantasy. The formula certainly works.
This is it, the NFL understands the more hype and hyperbole, the more entrenched fans are in all of it. Now they make that data and analytics available to fans and they get to feel like they are better than the general managers in the NFL.
StickierBuns wrote:
This is it, the NFL understands the more hype and hyperbole, the more entrenched fans are in all of it. Now they make that data and analytics available to fans and they get to feel like they are better than the general managers in the NFL.
Feed a pig and it will get fat.
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