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Found this interesting from Peter King's latest MMQB.
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The compensatory draft pick system might be one of unintended consequences. By not aggressively trying to sign high-profile free-agent veterans on one’s own team, a team can still succeed, and in a big way.
Maybe the success of the teams with the most compensatory picks in the 24-year history of the system (designed to compensate teams that lose valued free agents with draft picks a year after the loss of those players) is a coincidence. But I doubt it.
Look at the most active five teams in terms of draft choices awarded in the history of the system, and look at their success.
Franchise Comp. Picks Super Bowl Titles
1. Baltimore 48 2
2. Green Bay 38 2
3. Dallas 37 1
4. New England 34 5
5. St. Louis/L.A. Rams 33 1
The five most active teams, then, have won 11 of the 23 Super Bowls played since the compensatory pick system was launched with the 1994 draft. (It’s 23, not 24, because there have been 23 Super Bowls played since the system began.)
The lessons of the story:
• The franchise architects for the top four teams have been in their chairs for at least 12 years. They set a system in motion and don’t deviate from it.
• When you have the same person running your team for a long time (Ozzie Newsome since 2002, Ted Thompson since 2005, Jerry Jones since 1989, Bill Belichick since 2000), they don’t get cowed by the prospect of losing a high-priced star to free agency. They can take the wave of the initial negative publicity without feeling the hot flames of a critical media.
• Mid-round picks are valuable, both because they can yield starters and because they give a good GM the rope to make mistakes. Huh? That’s the way one front-office guy explained it to me a few years ago. “Say you get two comp picks,” the veteran scout said. “So instead of having seven picks, you have nine, and that gives you the chance to take more volume in the draft. It just increases the odds you’ll get more productive players out of your draft.” And the money a fifth-round pick will cost is far less than what a monied free agent will cost, obviously.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/02/27/nfl-draft-mike-mayock-combine-top-prospects-peter-king
Stat of the Week
The compensatory draft pick system might be one of unintended consequences. By not aggressively trying to sign high-profile free-agent veterans on one’s own team, a team can still succeed, and in a big way.
Maybe the success of the teams with the most compensatory picks in the 24-year history of the system (designed to compensate teams that lose valued free agents with draft picks a year after the loss of those players) is a coincidence. But I doubt it.
Look at the most active five teams in terms of draft choices awarded in the history of the system, and look at their success.
Franchise Comp. Picks Super Bowl Titles
1. Baltimore 48 2
2. Green Bay 38 2
3. Dallas 37 1
4. New England 34 5
5. St. Louis/L.A. Rams 33 1
The five most active teams, then, have won 11 of the 23 Super Bowls played since the compensatory pick system was launched with the 1994 draft. (It’s 23, not 24, because there have been 23 Super Bowls played since the system began.)
The lessons of the story:
• The franchise architects for the top four teams have been in their chairs for at least 12 years. They set a system in motion and don’t deviate from it.
• When you have the same person running your team for a long time (Ozzie Newsome since 2002, Ted Thompson since 2005, Jerry Jones since 1989, Bill Belichick since 2000), they don’t get cowed by the prospect of losing a high-priced star to free agency. They can take the wave of the initial negative publicity without feeling the hot flames of a critical media.
• Mid-round picks are valuable, both because they can yield starters and because they give a good GM the rope to make mistakes. Huh? That’s the way one front-office guy explained it to me a few years ago. “Say you get two comp picks,” the veteran scout said. “So instead of having seven picks, you have nine, and that gives you the chance to take more volume in the draft. It just increases the odds you’ll get more productive players out of your draft.” And the money a fifth-round pick will cost is far less than what a monied free agent will cost, obviously.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/02/27/nfl-draft-mike-mayock-combine-top-prospects-peter-king
