Quote:Benefit the team more?  I think you could easily make the argument that a guy with a slightly better grade riding the bench would benefit your team less than the guy with a slightly lower grade who is filling a gaping hole.  But thats an endless argument not worth continuing.

 

How bout this.... what if you think the guy with the higher grade would still be available in the next round?  Maybe he is a smaller school player that you've scouted intensely but dont believe many others know about.  Maybe its a slight gamble, but if he was there a round later, you'd actually be maximizing your draft value by not going with BAP.  You could argue this a rare occurence but routinely in Gene's drafts I would ask myself this question.  Even if the man was drafting based on his own BAP draft board, he was clearly leaving value on the table by taking guys 1 or 2 rounds ahead of where he could have grabbed them.  If the entire point of BAP is to maximize value, its not enough to follow your own board, but to have an idea what the consensus is for other boards.

 

 

If he is on the bench, he probably wasn't the best player available to begin with. But, if he truly is a 93 rating, he would be behind a Hall of Fame caliber player. There are multiple positions on the field, you aren't drafting a guy rated that high and placing him on the bench.

 

Of course you could do that. If you go back to 2000 to the draft, you aren't drafting Tom Brady in the 1st round because you know you can get him in round 5 (and some of round 6). With time travel out of the question, maximizing value definitely goes beyond your draft board.

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