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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AmishMafia" data-source="post: 772657" data-attributes="member: 2846">Where fans go awry, is they put way too much into a trade value chart. What the chart is meant to do is quantify the average value of a player you are likely to get at a particular draft spot. It makes an assumption that you can rank draft picks in order from 1 to 300, which of course is ridiculous. It also assumes that each team ranks the players equally. Also ridiculous. It should be updated every year to exactly match the talent available.So what happens if you are the Patriots and a player you rank as the #1 player in the draft is there at 14? Do you only offer the Packers the  trade chart value of pick #14 or are you willing to go much higher for a player you think is really special?  Then they also may think, wow, after Player zzzz, our next ranked player is quite a drop off. Which also drives up the price they are willing to pay.   Or, take it from the Packers perspective. What if all their top players are gone and they have the next 10 players equally ranked (doubtful at this point in the draft, but I want to illustrate something)?  The Packers asking price would drop significantly because they know they are getting a player they may have taken at 14 anyways. The price then is you have less players to choose from and whats left may not be a position you need.</blockquote>

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