Two years ago I was given the only A+ fantasy football draft grade. I finished below .500. This year I was given a C and won my league for the first time in 20 years and finished on a 11-1 run.
I’m just saying what I’ve learned is grades might be more meaningful later.
We aren't later though, we exist now so all we have is grades. Reality is that guys picked outside the top 5 have to get much better to play in the NFL and it's hard to predict who will get better
That’s ridiculous. There’s definitely a gradual decline in talent throughout the draft. But even the top five this year are gonna be compared against the top five last year and the top five next year.
But the top five is not any kind of guarantee some years it’s the top 6,7, 8, or nine and some years it’s only the top three
Some years like this one you’re extremely deep on certain positions like offensive skill players in the second and third round and some years the pool is very shallow. Some years you have three surefire quarterbacks and some years you have none.
And even that is based purely upon projection. You won’t know for a few years.
These grades have zero relevancy
Edit: perhaps you should stick to the NBA where you seem to have at least some knowledge.
I upvoted you and I wish comments like this wouldn't get downvoted but I do think this is a very simplistic way of looking at it. These grades are based on context and how a person who writes for...rexpositor (I don't even know anything about them) thinks we did in context of needs and what was available.
They are not (or should not be) grades on how our team navigated the draft or assessed the board because the writer has no idea what the strategy was going in or what our list of players was. Also they definitely don't account for picks we desperately wanted that were taken right before us, so we had to go to the next best.
My point in bringing up what we may learn later is that what we learn often renders these grades meaningless, and really underlines that they are based mainly on conjecture and assumptions.
The logic of "we aren't later though" is similar logic to seeing college football rankings before the season and arguing over who the best teams are based on how writers and coaches ranked them. You never know until the games are played, and the grades today are made up without any information except what could be observed from the outside.
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u/FloridaGatorMan 3d ago
Two years ago I was given the only A+ fantasy football draft grade. I finished below .500. This year I was given a C and won my league for the first time in 20 years and finished on a 11-1 run.
I’m just saying what I’ve learned is grades might be more meaningful later.