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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 476235" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I don’t think any GM is purely a BPA drafter but there is something that makes Thompson unique beyond his heavy reliance on drafting and developing talent for the team. Before the last draft I started a thread about BPA, BVA and tiers of talent in the draft. <a href="http://www.packerforum.com/threads/bpa-bva-and-tiers-of-talent-in-the-draft.35167/" target="_blank">http://www.packerforum.com/threads/bpa-bva-and-tiers-of-talent-in-the-draft.35167/</a></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: black">Here’s some of what I posted there: "I think there is a misunderstanding among some fans about the best player available philosophy because IMO no GM drafts strictly using this philosophy. Not even Ted Thompson. While I do believe Thompson adheres to his draft board more than nearly every other GM, it does not mean at every pick Thompson and his staff look at every player available at every pick in a vacuum. … </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">So if he’s not adhering purely or blindly to BPA how does Thompson conduct the draft? IMO it boils down to two departures from BPA. The first is how he and his staff construct their draft board, the listing of all the players available in the draft that they are willing to draft. First, of course they take into account the systems they run. (I’d guess all teams do this.) … </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The other departure IMO explains why Thompson trades up and mostly down in drafts as much or more than other GMs. The concept is talent tiers in the draft. We frequently read before drafts where the drop off of talent occurs, particularly early in the draft. It may be the top 10, 12, 15 or even 20 players are viewed as being clearly better prospects than the rest of the draftees. I remember reading that Ron Wolf did a study of drafts (or had one done) that determined the average top talent tier in the draft ended at about pick 17. These perceived tiers go beyond just the top tier of talent and IMO the reason Thompson trades so frequently is because if he can stay in the same tier (as determined by him and his staff of course), he’s willing to trade down to acquire more picks. The “Jordy” trade down is an obvious example. I’ll bet they had Jordy and a couple of other players in the same tier and rather than just grab Jordy with pick #30 in the first round as the BPA, Thompson traded down and still got one of the players he would have picked at #30 with pick #36 and picked up an extra fourth rounder. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: black">And when a player is available from an “upper tier”, he grabs him. Aaron Rodgers is the most obvious example. I’ll bet a lot of teams, including the Packers, had him in the top talent tier of the 2005 draft and when Thompson had the chance to grab him at pick 24 instead of another player probably in the second tier, he didn’t hesitate to take him. I also think the trade up for Matthews occurred because Thompson saw a top tier talent fall into the second tier."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">IMO what makes Thompson different from most GMs IMO is the discipline in sticking with his board and patience he shows while drafting. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 476235, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I don’t think any GM is purely a BPA drafter but there is something that makes Thompson unique beyond his heavy reliance on drafting and developing talent for the team. Before the last draft I started a thread about BPA, BVA and tiers of talent in the draft. [url]http://www.packerforum.com/threads/bpa-bva-and-tiers-of-talent-in-the-draft.35167/[/url][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=black]Here’s some of what I posted there: "I think there is a misunderstanding among some fans about the best player available philosophy because IMO no GM drafts strictly using this philosophy. Not even Ted Thompson. While I do believe Thompson adheres to his draft board more than nearly every other GM, it does not mean at every pick Thompson and his staff look at every player available at every pick in a vacuum. … [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]So if he’s not adhering purely or blindly to BPA how does Thompson conduct the draft? IMO it boils down to two departures from BPA. The first is how he and his staff construct their draft board, the listing of all the players available in the draft that they are willing to draft. First, of course they take into account the systems they run. (I’d guess all teams do this.) … [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]The other departure IMO explains why Thompson trades up and mostly down in drafts as much or more than other GMs. The concept is talent tiers in the draft. We frequently read before drafts where the drop off of talent occurs, particularly early in the draft. It may be the top 10, 12, 15 or even 20 players are viewed as being clearly better prospects than the rest of the draftees. I remember reading that Ron Wolf did a study of drafts (or had one done) that determined the average top talent tier in the draft ended at about pick 17. These perceived tiers go beyond just the top tier of talent and IMO the reason Thompson trades so frequently is because if he can stay in the same tier (as determined by him and his staff of course), he’s willing to trade down to acquire more picks. The “Jordy” trade down is an obvious example. I’ll bet they had Jordy and a couple of other players in the same tier and rather than just grab Jordy with pick #30 in the first round as the BPA, Thompson traded down and still got one of the players he would have picked at #30 with pick #36 and picked up an extra fourth rounder. [/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=black]And when a player is available from an “upper tier”, he grabs him. Aaron Rodgers is the most obvious example. I’ll bet a lot of teams, including the Packers, had him in the top talent tier of the 2005 draft and when Thompson had the chance to grab him at pick 24 instead of another player probably in the second tier, he didn’t hesitate to take him. I also think the trade up for Matthews occurred because Thompson saw a top tier talent fall into the second tier."[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]IMO what makes Thompson different from most GMs IMO is the discipline in sticking with his board and patience he shows while drafting. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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