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Originally Posted by New Era
Except history doesn't contradict it, it supports it. If there was any support for this premise teams would fully invest in this approach and not take younger lesser known promising players, they would take the guys that they have more data on, which is clearly not the practice. I honestly can't believe anyone bought this article as having any validity. Then again, the advanced stay junkies will believe almost anything presented to them in table form.
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I don't know how you can say that the research done by the article is not valid. It's not scholarly by any means, but the methods used are proper, so valid conclusions can be drawn. You can't assume teams know these things.
Even in this draft, you have a supposedly good drafting team take a player in Logan Stanley, who will likely bust, 168 spots ahead of Stepan Falkovsky, who will also likely bust. These are two players who are about as equivalent as players can be. Teams are not any further ahead of the curve than your average blogger when it comes to the draft.