(03-04-2021, 04:33 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(03-04-2021, 03:16 PM)Mikey Wrote: you should be hearing feedback at this point. we are stuck in a loop.

At this point, probably more successful trying to get the concept across to your dog, the junk mail on the kitchen table, or a bowl of pudding.

You are way behind in this discussion.  It's been discussed at nauseum, there are rare circumstances you don't take the top player like if we are stacked at a position or the guy won't see the field.

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I'm not as behind as you think.

What you are describing, though, contradicts the very point you are defending. You criticize others who are saying that they want to target a position, or who criticize a mock that fails to address a position. When they try to defend that they value that position, you scream "needs darfting" and profess allegiance to your ordinal board, and refuse to accept the notion that the way you structure things may not be the way others around here (or teams, for that matter) do.

If that second WR is your top player after you just picked a similar WR, and is that highly ranked that other players are not in consideration for the top of your board, passing on him invalidates your entire board strategy of "BPA". You either have to trade out of the pick to recoup the value lost, or you sacrifice the value by selecting a lower ranked player.

Or..........you could agree that after the first few picks, individual rankings likely don't exist. Players are grouped in tiers, which blend talent, ceiling, filling need, depth of that position in the draft, measurables and countless other factors. When your pick is due, you have a cluster of players that fit the value of the pick, and you weigh the factors to determine who you take. Every once in a while, you end up in the rare circumstance where one player is left in that tier...and you must then choose to make the pick yourself or shop it around for others who likely have that player rated as highly.

It's not as black and white as you make it. So either you're contradicting yourself when you say "BPA, but not BPA if I don't have need for that position", or we are arguing over the semantics of what the notion of BPA actually entails.

I think we're all caught up now.

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