(04-22-2024, 11:59 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-22-2024, 11:15 AM)cland Wrote: I think your statement describes the exact same thing, "reaching" is that your draft board doesn't match up with all of the other teams.  'Reaching' is defined from a perspective that is outside the team.  If you draft a player in the 1st round, where every other team wouldn't draft him until the 3rd that is the definition of reaching.  The quality of the player is irrelevant (ie. Taking Tom Brady in the 3rd round would have been a reach.) And the term 'reaching' is for the most part subjective (though sometimes it's obvious) because no one has every teams draft board at the time of the draft.

I don't care about other teams boards.  I'm talking about our board.  You go by your board and stay true to your own board  It's not a reach if you take your top guy regardless of other boards.  What if he ends up the best player and Baalke was right and the other 31 teams were wrong?  You call that a reach?  Naw, his board was just accurate.

Yes, I call that a reach. 

On your board you have:

Player A graded at 88
Player B graded at 85

However all the other teams have Player B as a first rounder just below your pick, and Player A as a second rounder below your pick on the other teams boards.

You can either draft Player B in the first, and then draft Player A in the second by not reaching, and only using your draft board.  Or you can draft Player A in the first, and not have the opportunity to draft Player B in the second (because he's already been drafted.)  The second option is reaching, and costs you the opportunity to add another highly graded player to your team by not being aware of the other teams draft boards.

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