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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 476250"><p>I couldn't help but notice you scrupulously avoided using the term "need" in that exegesis. Where do you see it fitting in? It would stand to reason if you're not ranking players but tiering them, need becomes a factor.</p><p> </p><p>I doubt tiering is all that unique simply because it makes too much sense. For example, anybody who grades one guy at 6.5, another at 6.7 and a third at 7.0 would have to be numb nut to just blindly take the 7.0 guy regardless of other factors...like need or depth of the draft at the various positions those 3 players represent. Further, tiering acknowledges the fact that grading is an inexact science and that boiling a player down to one number has a meaningful +/- margin for error.</p><p> </p><p>I don't see TT's draft philosophy as being all that unique. If you want to attribute any special draft success to TT, it mostly comes down better talent evaluation, cordial relationships with other GMs, and quick wits and a broad mental bandwidth put to work on draft day.</p><p> </p><p>Another factor that cannot be overlooked is drafting for your system, beyond not taking 4-3 guys for a 3-4 system and the like. It should be clear to everyone that the TT/MM system does not value the C/G/TB positions as highly as most teams. They think the picks and the money are better spent elsewhere. TT might downgrade (or down tier) one C compared to how other teams' grade him because they just don't see good marginal value in having, for example, the best C in the league vs. having the 16th. best. And lower grade college tackles can make fine guards, thank you very much. To the extent that the system is the right one has a strong influence on the success of the drafts; the the extent it isn't then it doesn't.</p><p> </p><p>For what it's worth, I'll repeat once again my original point: When TT tells a reporter that he'll be taking the "best player available" with his picks, it's a brush off. He doesn't want to talk about what he does. Nothing wrong with that. It's just foolish to take it at face value.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 476250"] I couldn't help but notice you scrupulously avoided using the term "need" in that exegesis. Where do you see it fitting in? It would stand to reason if you're not ranking players but tiering them, need becomes a factor. I doubt tiering is all that unique simply because it makes too much sense. For example, anybody who grades one guy at 6.5, another at 6.7 and a third at 7.0 would have to be numb nut to just blindly take the 7.0 guy regardless of other factors...like need or depth of the draft at the various positions those 3 players represent. Further, tiering acknowledges the fact that grading is an inexact science and that boiling a player down to one number has a meaningful +/- margin for error. I don't see TT's draft philosophy as being all that unique. If you want to attribute any special draft success to TT, it mostly comes down better talent evaluation, cordial relationships with other GMs, and quick wits and a broad mental bandwidth put to work on draft day. Another factor that cannot be overlooked is drafting for your system, beyond not taking 4-3 guys for a 3-4 system and the like. It should be clear to everyone that the TT/MM system does not value the C/G/TB positions as highly as most teams. They think the picks and the money are better spent elsewhere. TT might downgrade (or down tier) one C compared to how other teams' grade him because they just don't see good marginal value in having, for example, the best C in the league vs. having the 16th. best. And lower grade college tackles can make fine guards, thank you very much. To the extent that the system is the right one has a strong influence on the success of the drafts; the the extent it isn't then it doesn't. For what it's worth, I'll repeat once again my original point: When TT tells a reporter that he'll be taking the "best player available" with his picks, it's a brush off. He doesn't want to talk about what he does. Nothing wrong with that. It's just foolish to take it at face value. [/QUOTE]
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