Draft Time

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All of my draft tips were pretty much mentioned in this thread...

On the 39 setting the main difference for me is I use DA to sort by the bar rating and then go down from there. You don't see a lot of huge bar movement anymore if you have a better than decent scouting staff.

I also sort by the static bars using DA and check for outliers vs their combine score.

I have been using standard deviations going back a long time now. I tried to get everyone on it at some point. A lot of experienced players give me combines or screen shots of combines and ask me to evaluate players. I don't know combine scores anymore. I started looking at them again when I got on to combine cut-offs, but the great thing about the 39 setting is I do not have to worry about that anymore.

I am starting to agree for interviews. On the other hand, I am noticing about once per draft there is a VU masked no combine guy that I can find towards the end of the 1st round. Late in the round like that I like to roll the dice and trust the interview on guys like that.

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Oh yeah, I think I mentioned this at some point but you can still effectively use combines. This is more of a "feel" kind of thing or I think I saw someone refer to it as an art.

The thing is, you need to use the combines with the bars. I am not sure how to explain it.

Oh yes, one more comment. Someone tried to tell me they hate the 39 setting because there is no correlation between bars and combines. This is actually not true. There is still a very strong correlation, just like the 50 setting. However, there are no cut-offs. So you can see a mega stud with terrible combines. It is just more on the rare side.

The other tricky thing is most players in a draft are actually terrible. So you will get some terrible players in every draft with great combines.