2007 Straight Draft Guide

It's a new year for the Straight Draft Guide, but our mission remains the same. Most player valuations here at HQ, and around the industry in general, focus on dollar values. But dollars are primarily an auction-based utility, and do not directly translate into draft rankings. In this space each pre-season, our aim is to optimize that dollars-to-draft position translation.

We do have one key advantage this year: the data analysis usually done in this space has already been done elsewhere on the site. Let's take a tour:

Position Scarcity

As always, position scarcity takes a key role in our straight draft strategy. In this column, HQ's Hal Cohen gives us an excellent breakdown of the scarcity considerations in the 2007 player pool...

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