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RockRam
Are you saying by adding up all draft selections from all rounds and dividing by the number of picks?
What are you using to define success?
Are you comparing a teams who have exactly the same number of picks in exactly the same rounds?
Are you comparing round by round?
Because if a team has 7 picks but they are all in rounds 3 - 7, that is quite different than if a team has 7 picks but they are all in rounds 1, 2 and 3.

None of the above.

Just looking at the percentage of players who were hits. That's it.

It's useful for adding a dose of reality to discussions about how well a team has drafted. It's just basic information about what a basic standard looks like. Without that basic standard, any judgments about how well a team is drafting are just subjective.

In terms of the outlier situations, they even out. So teams don't have missing 1st and 2nd round picks every year. At the same time, all times have unique situations now and then. So it just evens out.

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