BillsFanInPeace
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This is a step in the right direction hope it is being used this year
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/15/new-draft-trade-chart/
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/15/new-draft-trade-chart/
Actually it's worse if you have a top pick....the guy that made this up must have a low pick for sure.
Not really it is designed to give the Number 1 overall some value to move out and combat against the money.
When a team selecting 5th overall has to make up 1,300 points as per old system and then also such that money up it is a big issue to try and move out.
In the new chart the 5 position only needs to make up 325 points. and then suck the big money up. That is more appealing.
Yes it says top teams will not get "entire drafts" to move out. But will help them try to move down.
I guess that one way to look at it...I rather believe it take the value out of having the top three picks in the draft. To trade up from the 5th pick to the 1st pick doesn't cost a team even a second round pick.
I understand what you are saying about the Pick Value.
But the Bottomline is the contract number of a 5th overall and a 3rd round pick will come pretty close to equaling that 1 overall if not be more than.
That is the driving factor of this new chart the money
The chart has nothing to do with the money...the money will be taken care of when the CBA is done...all this chart does....it makes the lower picks equal to the higher picks...and thats nuts.
The money is the reason they are tweaking the charts.
The most recent ESPN the Magazine has an article about the old value chart being off and what the values should be based on research from 2006 done by two professors called "The Loser's Curse: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the NFL Draft."
The old values put too much emphasis on high draft picks, as Jimmy Johnson (the guy who created it along with his staff) based the old values on the previous four years' worth of trades involving draft picks, basing their point system on what the market was telling them.
Now that the money comes with those High picks. It is to much to get up there to deal. Not only do you have un-godly high values for the top picks but then you have the contract to go with it.
The chart has nothing to do with the money...the money will be taken care of when the CBA is done...all this chart does....it makes the lower picks equal to the higher picks...and thats nuts.