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Swarm Intelligence: What 25 Mock Drafts Tells Us About 1st-Round Pass Rushers
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2017...rs-myles-garrett-taco-charlton-charles-harris
Free agency has slowed down to a trickle, so it's time to turn our attention back to the very serious business of mock drafting.
For that, I'm going to introduce you to the concept of swarm intelligence, which suggests that the collective behavior of self-organized systems without a centralized control structure can lead to the emergence of "intelligent" global behavior, unknown to the individual agents. The concept of swarm intelligence suggests that the predictive value of many mock drafts is greater than that of a single mock.
Which is why we'll look at a summary of 25 mocks below and see what they collectively have to say about the pass rushers in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. We'll do that by looking at where the various mock drafts are slotting which pass rusher, but we're leaving two pass rushers out: Myles Garrett is the number one pick in every single one of the 25 mocks below, and Solomon Thomas drops out of the Top 10 in just four of the 25 mocks, and never lower than 16th. The rest of the top pass rushers, and where they are mocked in each draft, is summarized in the table below...
http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2017...rs-myles-garrett-taco-charlton-charles-harris
Free agency has slowed down to a trickle, so it's time to turn our attention back to the very serious business of mock drafting.
For that, I'm going to introduce you to the concept of swarm intelligence, which suggests that the collective behavior of self-organized systems without a centralized control structure can lead to the emergence of "intelligent" global behavior, unknown to the individual agents. The concept of swarm intelligence suggests that the predictive value of many mock drafts is greater than that of a single mock.
Which is why we'll look at a summary of 25 mocks below and see what they collectively have to say about the pass rushers in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft. We'll do that by looking at where the various mock drafts are slotting which pass rusher, but we're leaving two pass rushers out: Myles Garrett is the number one pick in every single one of the 25 mocks below, and Solomon Thomas drops out of the Top 10 in just four of the 25 mocks, and never lower than 16th. The rest of the top pass rushers, and where they are mocked in each draft, is summarized in the table below...
