NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Thanks for stopping by the mailbag less than a week before the draft.
It’s a big week ahead, and we will learn a great deal about the organization and have all sorts of new angles soon.
In the meantime, the best questions of the week.
Do draft day falls result from GMs caught off guard or is it more media being behind scouts/gms info? #PKmail
— Chris Garete (@cjg6710) April 21, 2018
PK: Draft day falls come mostly from us believing too much about what is pieced together before the draft, and the circumstances of a draft that may change the course of a couple teams.
We can’t help ourselves, but the whole process from a media and fan perspective is weird and doesn’t, frankly, make a lot of sense.
Without knowing the degree of influence of the people who actually grade and draft players, we create a consensus scenario of what should happen. And then we measure teams and prospects against that scenario, which may not have had much basis to it in the first place.
So maybe we regard a guy too highly when he doesn’t get drafted as early as we expect. Or maybe two teams right in the range of where we expected him to go
