(04-23-2024, 10:36 AM)cland Wrote:

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

The problem with this is no one is privy to multiple or all other teams' boards.  You're letting talking heads and their boards influence what you believe to be a reach but in reality neither you nor the GM that makes the selection nor anyone else have any idea what the only draft boards that matter look like.

If you have someone graded as an 88, you'd be foolish to presume that other teams haven't given him a similar grade.  The real reason you might take the lower graded guy though is positional scarcity.  If 85 is a position that has crap left on the board behind him and you also need this position, then it might be worth it to forgo the 88 at another position if you can reasonably expect to get someone at a slightly lower grade at that same position as the 88 in the following round.

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