Quote:I'm not sure you understand what "value" means.  In this case, it's not "value" as in "value menu" (cheap.)  It's getting the most (best player available) out of your pick.  BAP gets you best bang for the buck, especially at the highest picks.  If you can't move your pick to match the pricetag, you're paying more for less even if the player's a hit.  You're right, it isn't always possible... but that's the exception, not the rule.  You still do everything you can to make it possible.  Otherwise, you're Gene Smith picking Alualu... passing on BAP just because you thought you needed the other guy.

I am quite certain you are completely limiting your own perception of "value."


It is one of the major faults of the BAP crowd. If you aren't getting production and utility on the field, then you lose.


You are looking at value only in terms of the draft, as if you can win the draft based upon getting some value score and then it will translate to winning on the field.


Simply not true, and this is exactly why it cannot and has not been employed in the NFL for decades. Perhaps it is used in college for recruiting, just not in a league with a salary cap and free agency.


If you have WRs who are some awesome draft value, and don't fill a need by having a stable Oline, then you lose.


I know, I know, stop gap with free agency blah blah blah.


Guy whimper, anyone?


The notion that it is the exception rather than the rule to not be able to trade down is also just not reality. Every single year you hear teams moan that they couldn't trade out of a pick. More teams are always trying to trade down then trade up, especially in the high rounds, and rarely does it play out.

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