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(01-10-2019, 10:35 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: That statistically we are one of the better teams in the league drafting thing is a myth. It's based on guys you draft playing. It doesn't factor in quality.

This is from 2017:

It ranks us 26th in drafting over the previous 5 years.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-teams-five-year-success-by-draft-class

The study you're citing is completely subjective and lazily done.  There are numerous issues with it.

1.WAR is a completely made up and subjective stat, and is the basis of the rankings.  They even admit up front that an individual player's WAR rating is based on what position they play.  That up front means this isn't about who is drafting the best players.  It's about who drafted the best players at the positions PFF deems most important.  Team needs will inflate and handicap a team's ranking.

2.Players with a negative WAR rating are treated as 0, or the equivalent of a player who never saw the field.  Teams that draft and play horrible players are not having their scores deducted as much as they should due to this fact.

3.They basically determine WAR rating by taking an average of the player's production in the years they did play and stretching that out over 5 years.  This is a horrible flaw.  If you have a 3rd year WR who is buried on the depth chart in year 1 and has 300 yards and 1 TD and has a breakout 2nd year with 1200 yards and 9 TD's, they will be averaged out at 750 yards and 5 TD's per year.  Their model intrinsically handicaps teams that sit players for 1-2 years due to having great depth.  For example, the Steelers are 30th.