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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 6794" data-source="post: 654490">Here´s a pretty accurate explanation although the formula has never been published:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compensatory Picks Are Based on Players Lost/Gained in Free Agency: In most cases, a team needs to have lost more players who qualify for compensatory status than gained over the last league year. The NFL determines which players qualify for said status. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Team Cannot Have More Than Four Compensatory Picks: This is for obvious, competitive-balance reasons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All Free Agents Are Not Considered Equal: The NFL makes its determination on what round compensatory players correlate to via a combination of factors: "salary, playing time and postseason honors," per a 2012 <a href="https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/2012-compensatory-draft-picks2.pdf" target="_blank">press release</a>. The exact formula, again, is not public; however, it's a pretty good bet that the more money a player makes, the higher his compensatory value.</li> </ul>BTW the Packers still received a seventh-round compensatory pick in the 2007 draft after sigining Woodson during the 2006 offseason.</blockquote>

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