Quote:There is an art of maximizing value as TMD wants, he just vastly underestimates how easy it is to just trade back...and he also uses the Alualu straw man example which I understand because it was the Jags but it was also executed by possibly the worst GM of all time. 

 

Taking a guy you have graded 6th at 3 isn't not maximizing value. Taking a guy rating mid 2nd round at best 10th overall is not maximizing value, especially when you whiffed on the evaluation to begin with. 

 

So essentially TMD is right in theory, he is just taking it to far too extreme of a level to make this example logical. 

 

If a guy is at the top of your board how do you know where other teams rank him? Point is, say a team is very high on Russel Wilson (phily) and they want to "maximize value" for getting him even though he is the top ranked player on their board. You wait an extra round and lose out on the top player you had because you guessed wrong on where other people valued him. 

---