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dzrams
If you're only including players still on the team, why are GRob, Pead, Quick, Bailey and Mason still on your list of bad picks? Seem a tad inconsistent to you too?
There are several players not still on the team precisely because they were great picks. The Drafting Department and the Player Retention Department are two different divisions in Rams, Inc. Why would you hold the Drafting Department responsible for decisions of the retention department?
It just seems like a mighty convenient way to not count JJ, EJ Gains, McLeod, TJ McDonald...
Why is Everett already on your list of bad picks? If Everett is already counted as a bad pick, can I count Ebukam as a good pick now? He contributed and did well.
Why aren't current OL starters Havenstein and Brown on the list of good picks? Starters don't count? What level of starter do you have to be? What about Higbee and Cooper? Longacre?
Why is a QB drafted to fill the backup role considered a bad pick when he's the current backup?
But the most important question of all you didn't answer. What defines 'very poor' drafting record?
You list 10 good picks and 8 bad; so am I to understand that a 56% hit rate is very poor?
Remember it's the number of hits compared to the total number of picks--that gives you the hit rate.
Other than that I agree with all your points.
A hit rate of 50% is superlative. Above 40% is good.
If anyone doubts that choose any good drafting team, go back to years you can assess because they're not too recent (like say 2006-2012, 7 years) and do the hit rate.
It is very rare to be better than 50%.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2018 05:50PM by zn.