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The In-Depth Mock Draft I Would Like To See
« on: April 03, 2012, 10:38:46 AM »

Offline LooseCannon

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Not sure if anyone does this, but instead of just predicting who gets drafted in what slot, I would like to see what teams' draft boards will look like.  What I mean is that you project an order of players drafted, but for each team, you list the top 3-5 players that each team is looking at.  Ideally, you would have two separate lists, one of players who the team should be interested in drafting, the other of players the team is mostly likely to be interested in drafting, based on front office biases.

Does anyone do this?
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Re: The In-Depth Mock Draft I Would Like To See
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Not sure if anyone does this, but instead of just predicting who gets drafted in what slot, I would like to see what teams' draft boards will look like.  What I mean is that you project an order of players drafted, but for each team, you list the top 3-5 players that each team is looking at.  Ideally, you would have two separate lists, one of players who the team should be interested in drafting, the other of players the team is mostly likely to be interested in drafting, based on front office biases.

Does anyone do this?

Yes, but around draft time. Truehoop does it, and I think SBnation does it too, with a blogger from each team acting as 'GM', picking for their team, and writing a ~200 word justification of it.

an example from 2010:
http://www.hornets247.com/blog/2010/06/22/espn-truehoop-mock-draft-hornets-pick-cole-aldrich/

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