big dog cowboy;2025341 said:
A link to the chart would be great but I honestly don't think Pro Football Talk is all that.
http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/04/new-draft-trade-chart-in-draft/
their's also this article on it
UNVEILING A NEW DRAFT TRADE CHART
Posted by Mike Florio on April 4, 2008, 2:48 p.m.
For those of you who have managed to stay awake through some of the less intriguing stuff that gives us a little street cred in the
football bidness, here’s one that will be sure to put you to sleep.
We’re unveiling today our initial proposal for a
new draft trade chart.
The current version, which can be inspected
right here, was developed in the 1990s. But the skyrocketing of rookie contracts paid to the guys at the top of round one have rendered the current chart obsolete.
Under the current chart, the No. 1 overall pick is worth 3,000 points. The value drops by 400 points per pick over the next three selections. Then, the drop is 100 per pick for the next four, 50 per pick for the next ten selections, 25 per pick for a few choices, then 20 for several picks, and then finally ten per pick at the bottom of round one and into round two.
So if the
Dallas Cowboys were to package the No. 22 and No. 28 overall picks in an effort to move up for a crack at Arkansas running back Darren McFadden, the two first-rounders would be worth 1,440 points, enough to move up only to No. 8. To get to No. 1, the Cowboys would need another 1,560 points.
Under the new chart, the No. 1 overall pick is worth 1,000 points. The biggest drop in the round (100 points) occurs between picks number 16 and 17, since the maximum length of the rookie deal as of the seventeenth pick is five years. For the first sixteen selections, the maximum duration is six.
There’s an even bigger dip from the bottom of round one to the top of round two, since the maximum contract length beginning with round two is four years.
The value doesn’t change at all from the bottom of round two to the top of round three, because the new draft format gives the team with the first pick in round three much more time to contemplate the pick. Starting this year, only the first round and second round will be selected on Saturday. On Sunday morning, the third round begins.
We’re not quite sure how the current trade chart became gospel, but the thing is now outdated. We plan to possibly tweak the new numbers based on input from league insiders and readers. For now, however, we think that the proposed chart is a huge upgrade over the version that has been in place, but only because of the changes in the dynamics of paying players at the top of round one.
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Then end up possibily with Williams, Adam Jones and McFadden. (Just for you Rampage)
