Statistics show we don't know how to draft! Shocking!

This just in! We suck! Now we can see why. This table from Drafttek.com illustrates the success of draft picks by whether or not they are still with the teams that drafted them. Many players have simply switched teams but that doesn't mean they were the right picks in the first place so this is a measure of the actual decisions made on draft day in the war rooms across the NFL. Look who's in last place in percentage, and it's not even close.

4 months ago dbcouver 2 comments 0 recs |

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Interesting

The Patriots according to this measure of draft success also are not good drafters. Obviously they have a higher overall talent level but still I would have thought they wouldn’t have been so low, 66%, especially when compared to a team like Atlanta with a 95% success rate. This makes me question the effectiveness of this method of measuring draft successes.

Sick of always telling people "next year", ready for next year to become this year.

by Swatsky on Feb 1, 2012 11:51 AM CST reply actions

2 things

1. The patriots had 33 picks in the 3 year period. 67% of 33 beats the hell out of 58% of 22. real numbers are 22 players still on the roster for the patriots, and 15 for the Rams. Furthermore, take a look at the names of the patriots players compared with the Rams. We have like 5-6 that are solid contributors. The rest are either injured, not contributing, or would never make it on another team. They have at least 3 times that many.

2. The trend for the Rams is going downward, the trend for the Pats is angling up, as it should be in a chart of year-to year comparisons. We went from 4 to 7 to 4 on players retained. They went from 6 to 8 to 8. Couple that with the quality factor and this method works pretty well. % by itself isn’t an indicator, but really, what is? I’ll tell you what is, 2-14. That’s all the collaboration I need.

Wolf. Wolfgang Wolf

by dbcouver on Feb 1, 2012 5:34 PM CST up reply actions