Quote:Agree.  If you want someone less than BAP because of need, you trade down to where you can safely draft him.

 

Otherwise, that's what makes a reach, a reach (and puts GMs jobs on the line.)

 

I simply doesn't make any sense to take a lesser talent than BAP.  if you don't need him, find someone else who does and trade.  Or, prepare to upgrade your position and send someone packing.  Someone certainly can use the pick or player.  There's too much energy wasted talking ourselves out of what's simply common sense, if broken down to it's basic elements.  You get the highest value out of every pick that you can get.

I mean, just trade people. What don't you understand? It is just that easy.



I would loooooovvvveee to be sitting next to some of these supposed BAP people as the guy you had ranked a smidge below the guy you drafted is making plays while your guy languishes on the bench because he can't hit the field.


The goal is not to acquire the highest "VALUE" of a pick, it IS to get the highest UTILITY. Value on the bench is mostly useless.

No one in the league has used this common-sense defying theory in decades anyway.

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