Comments on: NFL Economic Bizarro World

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:08:51 +0000

If your chief competitive advantage is that you can crunch the numbers better, then it makes perfect sense for you to pick up players who have plenty of data backing them up — and to ignore players without any data backing them up.

Otherwise, it’s not so clear.

It’s all about who is overvalued or undervalued by the rest of the market, and what you know that they don’t know.

By: charley hoarse

charley hoarse — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:53:15 +0000

YES i MUST AGREE THAT ROOKIES AND UNPROVEN PLAYERS ARE
PAID TOO MUCH, BUT THEN AGAIN AS A FORMER PLAYER
I THINK,NO, iKNOW ALL NFL PLAYERS ARE PAID TOO MUCH.

By: Carl from Chicago

Carl from Chicago — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:22:46 +0000

Another insane impact of the system is 1) not only do we pay way too much for unproven players 2) they often sit out training camp while they bicker over how much undeserved guaranteed pay to receive.

As Bear fans we suffered through this with Benson since, however terrible his career was, it was even more likely to fail due to the lack of practice time and ill-will that he accumulated with the other players.

Smarter teams like the Pats as you know are basically opting out of this by trading for mid-level draft picks. Since the NFL salary cap is pretty equal the teams cripple themselves by picking expensive unproven high draft picks. I think that this is helping to keep the “good teams good” and the crappy teams crappy – because the crappy teams are the guys paying the biggest bucks to the top 5 picks.

Look at what Detroit got for their picks… bubkus. And the Dolphins.