Draft Analyzer

[Sharkn20]

Who?

A lot of the time changes in scouting account for most non-volatility drops and gains.

Orlando Osborne dropped,

Then J.C. Whipkey changed all the way around to the high so...

[Guest]

League scout has Osborne's BPR dropping from 23 to 21.

I don't think that's a big deal.

Whipkey did jump, so much so I imagine that was Voltatility as everything went up.

[Sharkn20]

League scout has Osborne's BPR dropping from 23 to 21.

I don't think that's a big deal.

Whipkey did jump, so much so I imagine that was Voltatility as everything went up.

Well let´s try to make this serious.... Can you post here the link to download Draft Analizer and how to use this new version?

[Guest]

???

The in-game tracker will give you the same info.

Otherwise everything would be coming from Player Tracker.

[Sharkn20]

We don´t have Draft Analizer anymore?? To check the new class??

[Guest]

I'm so confused. Of course we have DA still. I don't see how it'll have any bearing on the discussion about static bars though.

[Sharkn20]

How do I export the Draftees from FOF??

Garion, Is to have a deep look in this year´s Draft and argue o be agree with you about static bars . Do we still having masked bars??

[Guest]

How do I export the Draftees from FOF??

Garion, Is to have a deep look in this year´s Draft and argue o be agree with you about static bars . Do we still having masked bars??

Export Data and Export Personal Scouting Data

Masked bars. I think they're gone. Jim messed with players enough that masked pairs seem to no longer exist for that vast majority of players.

[Guest]

That's a -5 to his blocking. I don't think we ever saw that in rookies who didn't VSOD.

Yeah, I don't really know. It might be there was a slight change with the new version but in general some bars still seem pretty static to me.

[Guest]

And I agree with you.

[Guest]

Export Data and Export Personal Scouting Data

Masked bars. I think they're gone. Jim messed with players enough that masked pairs seem to no longer exist for that vast majority of players.

Agree to that. I have yet to see any visible pattern.

I would still say that high static bars matched with equivalent lowish combine scores still seems like a good sign. But it is not always that simple, either.

[Sharkn20]

I do miss masked pairs... It made me so good drafting in FOF2K7 Good times

[IrishGuy65]

Don't put your faith in the draft analyzer stuff. Last season, I moved up to draft ILB Philip Bergeron, who DA had rated the 21st best player in the draft. I got him at the end of the first round.

Look at him now. He isn't even a top 5 ILB if I had followed my usual route. Very big mistake, picking him. A good ILB would have solidified my defense, now I am still looking.

The moral of the story... follow your own judgement and instincts, and don't waste time on the DA rating system.

[Guest]

I know we all have drafting horror stories which come from any number of angles, but a lot of them come from bad luck.

I'm not sure what you saw in him to make you move up but a basic sort in DA for me ranked him 58th overall. Clearly you saw something I don't atm, especially since he has a 20 in Position Drill. That right there means he won't be a good cover LB.

Anyway, the point is you can't take everything at face value, no matter the tools you use. DA has gotten absurdly powerful but even then studs can flop from bad die rolls. If your Scouting is bad on a player you can be seeing a completely different player from someone else, which may explain the difference in opinion on the DE Ira drafted earlier today.

[Sharkn20]

You should have in consideration the useful benchmarks by position posted by Ben a while ago. It tells you if one prospect will bust out based on combines. I find that very useful and I use it quite a lot. But as Garion says is also a luck factor in all of this....