Wednesday, February 20, 2008

New Draft Trade Chart?

A recent comment on my Dolphins Draft Options post brought up the effectiveness of the old trade value chart in question. The problem with the old chart is that it doesn't take the financial windfall of missing on a top pick into account when assigning values. When it was first made, you didn't have to sign the #1 overall pick to $30+ million in guaranteed money.

Now comes the news that some people around the league are tinkering with the creation of a new chart. This would be an excellent tool for the Dolphins organization, who incidentally have that not-so-coveted #1 overall pick. Changing the values for the picks might mean that the franchise will trade the pick for less than the previous chart would have demanded, but in reality that's a good thing because under the current system it's unlikely we would trade the pick at all.

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