2016 Draft

[HarveyWallbangers]

This is total nerd stuff, but I thought it would be fun to see how my rankings did compared to CBS, Scott Wright's Draft Countdown, Todd McShay, Mel Kiper, and Bob McGinn. I wanted to focus on the positions where I watched at least three game films of every prospect, where possible (some guys didn't have three games of film for me to watch, so I had to go off highlights). I did this at QB, RB, WR, and TE. I watched quite a few games where draftable OL went up against draftable DL (for example, I watched Ronnie Stanley against Clemson and Ohio State; Jason Spriggs vs. Ohio State and Michigan State) and a few games where draftable WRs went up against draftable CBs (for example, I watched William Jackson vs. Temple and Robby Anderson; Eric Murray and Briean Boddy-Calhoun vs. TCU). With a 10 day trip to Kenya this month, I didn't have time to concentrate on LBs and safeties much. I did read multiple scouting reports on every player I evaluated and had their testing numbers, but it's not the same as actually being able to watch the film.

What I did is took every player drafted and took the difference between what number they were drafted at for their position vs. where each had the player ranked. The final results:

Me (392), Consensus (441), CBS (442), Mel Kiper (454), Todd McShay (477), Scott Wright (522)

To be fair, McGinn beat me at quite a few positions, but he didn't rank enough WRs for me to include him in this sample. Across all of the positions that McGinn ranked enough players (all but WR and CB) the final rankings were:

Consensus (500), Bob McGinn (504), me (529), CBS (542), Scott Wright (547), Mel Kiper (571), Todd McShay (586)

Taking McGinn out, across all positions the final results were:

Consensus (992), me (997), Mel Kiper (1064), CBS (1074), Scott Wright (1086), Todd McShay (1113)

I had it won until I got to CB, but I did terrible with my CB rankings. Maurice Canady and Kalan Reed were two guys I liked, but they got drafted late and it ruined my score. Wish I could have gotten to all of the positions because it would have been fun to see how this shook out.

At each position:

QB: Consensus (28), Bob McGinn (30), me (35), Mel Kiper (37), CBS (38), Scott Wright (39), Todd McShay (41)
RB: Bob McGinn (63), me (70), CBS (72), Mel Kiper (74), Consensus (74), Todd McShay (74), Scott Wright (87)
WR: Me (253), CBS (295), Mel Kiper (299), Consensus (306), Todd McShay (322), Scott Wright (358)
TE: Bob McGinn (28), Consensus (33), me (34), CBS (37), Scott Wright (38), Todd McShay (40), Mel Kiper (44)
OL: Bob McGinn (97), Consensus (97), Scott Wright (104), me (107), Mel Kiper (107), CBS (108), Todd McShay (120)
DL: Scott Wright (70), Consensus (77), me (86), Todd McShay (87), CBS (94), Bob McGinn (97), Mel Kiper (97)
LB: Bob McGinn (134), Consensus (135), CBS (140), Todd McShay (140), me (145), Mel Kiper (146), Scott Wright (147)
CB: Scott Wright (181), Consensus (186), Mel Kiper (194), Todd McShay (205), me (215), CBS (237) -- no Bob McGinn, this killed me and there were a lot of points to be had here
S: Me (52), CBS (53), Consensus (56), Bob McGinn (56), Scott Wright (62), Mel Kiper (66), Todd McShay (84)

[mraynrand]

With a 10 day trip to Kenya this month, ...

You teach any advanced competitive game theory?

[woodbuck27]

Mike McCarthy recaps Green Bay Packers draft

Brian Jones - Apr 30, 5:41 PM

http://gnb.247sports.com/Bolt/Mike-M...raft--45109383
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" ...Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy was available to the media as soon as the 2016 NFL Draft was done, and one of the things that stood out for him was the additions of two offensive tackles Jason Spriggs and Kyle Murphy.

“There's a desire to get bigger,” McCarthy said via Lori Nickel of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “We've accomplished that. I look at the draft board like a game plan - you need to stick to it. Stay true to the board - but you can never have enough big men. It's a big man's game. Challenges during the season, you have to make sure you take care of things up front.” .."

Click on the LINK for more.

[Fritz]

Mike McCarthy recaps Green Bay Packers draft

Brian Jones - Apr 30, 5:41 PM

http://gnb.247sports.com/Bolt/Mike-M...raft--45109383
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" ...Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy was available to the media as soon as the 2016 NFL Draft was done, and one of the things that stood out for him was the additions of two offensive tackles Jason Spriggs and Kyle Murphy.

“There's a desire to get bigger,” McCarthy said via Lori Nickel of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “We've accomplished that. I look at the draft board like a game plan - you need to stick to it. Stay true to the board - but you can never have enough big men. It's a big man's game. Challenges during the season, you have to make sure you take care of things up front.” .."

Click on the LINK for more.

Is he in the market for a penis pump?