03-09-2016, 10:30 AM
(03-08-2016, 09:35 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Yeah, I'm sure those two teams would have been awesome in 2015 had they done nothing in free agency.
(03-08-2016, 09:41 PM)RoyleRedlegs Wrote: Shhh. They need to use the ultimate extreme examples to placate themselves with the other extreme.
There is nothing extreme about these examples. They are just being realistic. When you look at all free agents it is clear that the big deals fail to work out much more often than they work out. Form '00 to '05 only EIGHT PERCENT of free agents that signed 5 year or longer contracts played out the full deal, and the average number of years played on a five year deal was LESS THAN THREE.
People claim that free agency is not as big of a gamble as the draft because "you know what you are getting". And while the success rate for free agents is probably better than the draft it is far from a sure thing and you are gambling with tens of millions of dollars with a free agent instead of hundreds of thousands with draft picks.
