Still, the Jimmy Johnson chart is the starting point for most trade discussions. This is to be expected since when Mike McCoy created the chart for Johnson in the late-80s/early-90s, draft picks were paid more in accord with the market value of top players at their position, and the chart was derived using the cost of each pick. It is a commonly known fact among NFL analysts that the Jimmy Johnson trade chart is not “right” in that it overvalues higher picks and slopes too steeply. For that reason, trading back almost always generates more value than trading up. The Jimmy Johnson chart is outdated, but it also sets the market. While there are certainly exceptions, players that fall play to the average of their draft position. Players who fall, on the other hand, have been assessed by some of (if not all) of the NFL marketplace, a marketplace that has access to the tools like medical and psych evals that are not widely available to the public, leading to a market with greater efficiency than the market for a reach. On average, players that are taken ahead of their consensus position underperform. Teams that take a player higher than expected to are, in a sense, “a market of one”, bestowed with all of the statistical properties of a draft pundit being quoted by Freezing Cold Takes. To this point, Riske found that between the two extremes, reaches (where a team takes a player higher than their spot on the consensus board) and steals (where a team takes a player that has fallen lower than their spot on the consensus board), there is really only empirical evidence for the former. While this information might eventually get to the public, it often stays concealed among the 32 NFL clubs providing a distinction between the actual marketplace and the public one.
Instead, they are more likely to fall down a team’s board because of negative information stemming from one of these evaluations. While there has been a lot of discussion regarding the S2 Cognition Test in recent weeks, players generally do not skyrocket up draft boards because of medical or psych evals. One of the differences between NFL teams and the public is access to information like medical and psychological evaluations. There is really no such thing as a steal, but there is empirical support for the existence of reaches. Where do the discrepancies arise? Well, one source is captured in the following proverb: My former colleague at PFF, Timo Riske, demonstrated the efficiency of the consensus approach here, showing that the NFL and the consensus big board coincide roughly 80 percent of the time.
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Arif Hasan of Pro Football Network and Benjamin Robinson of Grinding the Mocks have done great work aggregating the opinions of mock drafters for years now, and the evidence suggests the wisdom of crowds applies to selecting players at the NFL level.
This is hard to admit sometimes given all the work that goes into player evaluation, but the prevailing research suggests that, after adjusting for the expectation of the pick, the broader prediction market is efficient when it comes to ordering players. It is really difficult to outdraft the competition pick for pick. For feedback, on Twitter is a good place to start. This list is meant to be instructive not exhaustive. Some of these have been known for a long time, thanks in part to the seminal work of Cade Massey and Richard Thaler, while others have been developed more recently by some of the best minds in the space. Thomas Dimitroff and I will be hosting Sumer’s first live draft stream, which you can find on YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter.īefore the events of Thursday night capture the hearts and minds of the football universe, I would like to go through some analytical proverbs of drafting that have crystalized over the past few decades. On Thursday night, sequences of picks and trades that have been played out in our heads for months will finally become a reality.
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