I'm considering making this a recurring analysis, before each draft I can put together a list of the players that fit the criteria and their availability at each pick. Then we can track over the next few seasons how our selections fare in comparison, it would remove the "hindsight is 20/20" aspect of it.

My guess on the RB's is that they tend to fall a little bit due to positional value, and in college football dominant runninggames usually carry these teams to title games. Considering the shelf life of RB's I think it makes sense to just keep drafting them, burning the tires off and then drafting a replacement rather than re-signing a declining asset with wear and tear.

another aspect of this that may not be obvious at first, is that if you build a team of all national championship participants 3 things will happen:

1) you'll naturally create internal competition as there are rivalries and intensity in those games between the 2 teams you can pick from, each practice they can remind each other of "remember when i did X to you in the NC?!?"
2) they'll begin to recruit the other players they played with in college that are thriving elsewhere in the NFL. If you have a good portion of 'Bama guys, Clemson guys etc. assuming the money is about equal it may be more enticing to go to the destination that has a large number of your friends and former teammates that you already have a good rapport with and may have onfield chemistry with.
3) You'll almost certainly create a winning culture, or at least a better culture that rejects apathy and accepts losing, if every guy wins at the college level as they come in, in theory it should be easier to get everyone to buy into a similar culture at this level.

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(11-03-2021, 03:36 PM)rufftime Wrote: A part of me is curious about the same analysis done with the Gene Smith small school philosophy.

If I have time I might be able to throw something like that together; i'm actually a little curious to see how that would shake out thanks for the idea!

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