03-28-2020, 12:53 AM
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[div align=\\\"center\\\"]NSFL POWER RANKINGS WEEKS 12-13[/div]
TLDR:
1. Orange County
2. New Orleans
3. Baltimore
4. Yellowknife
5. Colorado
6. Austin
7. San Jose
8. Chicago
9. Philadelphia
10. Arizona
Welcome everyone to the penultimate edition of the S(21) NSFL Power Rankings. Man what a journey this has been. This started off as just a thing to make money in the pre season and has morphed into quite a complex process. I will likely do something for the playoffs but it won’t be Power Rankings. I will say my pick for this years Ultimus winner will be NOLA, the same team I predicted would win the regular season at the start of preseason. We got one last power rankings next week after the week 13 games and then we’re off to the races with a very exciting playoff I’m sure. Thanks to everyone who reads these, these are a lot of fun to make. I realize they can be very controversial but I enjoy the discussion these can bring. These regularly pull 150-200 views, so I’m honored that so many of you are taking the time every week to give these a read!
Coming into the final stretch most teams have settled within 2 spots of their TPE ranking (except for OCO because they’re weird) and things are looking how they were predicted early on by these power rankings. Yellowknife, after a long season of not taking their rightful place at 4th, went 3-1 this past week with a clutch win at NOLA on the road and a win at home against the Otters. Baltimore was our other big winner this week, also going 3-1. We got two more games next week and our playoff teams are just about set. The only team that can possibly cause some ruckus are the Chicago Butchers who need to play the Orange County Otters on the road and NOLA at home in order to even have enough wins to challenge for a tie break.
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]METHOD[/div]
I’m simply copy and pasting the same method changes for both power rankings to reduce confusion on what is the latest methodology.
Changes for both NSFL and DSFL Power rankings this week include
1. Reweighting the formulas to make sure TPE is only 33% and not creeping up to 50+ (this was a mistake on my part in how I set things up)
2. Reduced emphasis on Index. Index now provides, at most, 1 point. Secondarily, extremely low index ratings wont affect performance ratings, as was the case in prior power rankings (again this is my bad. Brackets are hard and their misplacements caused a few errors). The final weightings so far should be 60-75% based in TPE and performance (which should be 33% and 66% respectively) and 40-25% based on Index. The variation is strictly due to the fact that only the max team gets 1 point from index, and other teams receive a fraction based on that 1 point, so their index contributions may be quite low and therefore may represent a smaller portion of their final score.
3. Recalculated how the “pure performance” bit is measured. It now totally takes out TPE from the picture (again due to how I was measuring things, TPE played a role. My bad here once again)
4. Tuned the defense and offensive variables to greater reward teams that play better in terms of yards and points. Now, top teams in each category can receive up to 1.5 points (up from 1 point) and teams not in the top place will receive a fraction of points based off of 1.5 max points (determined by their yards/points in relation to the max/least yards/points).
5. Finally, as putting out these power rankings can be quite time consuming, I have decided to only be updating my spreadsheets twice a season, once before week 1 games are played, and once before the first playoff game is played. I may consider also doing one at the halfway point of each season going forward as well, given I have just updated the spreadsheets for both leagues in terms of TPE status.
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]RESULTS[/div]
OFFENSIVE POWER RANKINGS
(number in brackets denotes TPE rankings)
1. New Orleans 4.5405 (3)
2. Baltimore 4.410 (4)
3. Austin 4.409 (1) UP 3
4. Orange County 4.347 (7) UP 1
5. Yellowknife 4.2830 (6) UP 2
6. Colorado 4.2355 (2) DOWN 3
7. Chicago 4.1842 (5) DOWN 3
8. Philadelphia 3.6187 (9)
9. Arizona 3.1515 (8)
10. San Jose 3.276 (10)
DEFENSIVE POWER RANKINGS
(number in brackets denotes TPE rankings)
1. New Orleans 4.2975 (1)
2. Orange County 4.15335 (6)
3. Yellowknife 3.6128 (3) UP 1
4. Colorado 3.5902 (2) DOWN 1
5. Baltimore 2.9673 (4)
6. San Jose 3.4420 (8)
7. Philadelphia 3.2993 (5)
8. Austin 3.128 (7)
9. Chicago 2.9995 (9)
10. Arizona 2.8132 (10)
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FINAL COMBINED POWER RANKINGS WITH INDEX[/div]
(First bracket number is purely stats/performance. Second number is TPE rankings)
1. Orange County 3.8266 (1) (6) UP 1
2. New Orleans 3.7024 (2) (1) DOWN 1
3. Baltimore 3.3048 (3) (3) UP 2
4. Yellowknife 3.1970 (4) (4) UP 3
5. Colorado 3.1015 (5) (2) DOWN 2
6. Austin 2.8028 (6) (5) DOWN 2
7. San Jose 2.7044 (8) (9) UP 2
8. Chicago 2.6519 (7) (8) DOWN 2
9. Philadelphia 2.5533 (9) (7) UP 1
10. Arizona 2.1292 (10) (10) DOWN 1
1. Orange County: With 2 NOLA losses, Orange County, which started this preseason at #6, sits at #1 on this list. NOLA still sits at #1 thanks to a TPE lead but in terms of raw performance and raw yards/points, OCO has been #1. Both teams have play Baltimore on the road next week, so the battle of season winner will ultimately be decided by the hawks. OCO is quite simply put, probably the best sim tested organization in the entire league. Going 5-1 on the road, with a TPE deficit I mentioned earlier, I am simply amazed at what OCO has accomplished
2. NOLA, our season leader until this week two heartbreaking losses against two top 4 teams. NOLA showed this week that they can be beat. Going into this last week they absolutely need to win both games and bounce back into form for the playoffs.
3. Baltimore is facing the ultimate challenge next week with games against our #1 AND #2 team. With playoff seeding on the line, next week will be a true test for Baltimore. 2 wins next week and I can see many people having Baltimore as their favorite to win it all
4. Welcome Yellowknife to the top 4, where you belong. The wraiths have messed around at the bottom for far too long, and with a 3-1 run this week, they finally are up with the top teams. 2 road games next week should pose a challenge, expect the Wraiths to go 1-1
5. Colorado, my #2 team coming into the season, finds themselves at 5th. Two easy games against two bottom teams next week should grant Colorado a 2-0 week and a chance at the top seed however.
6. Austin, our Ultimus winners last year, clinched a playoff spot with a win over the Arizona Outlaws. They’ll have to play one of OCO or NOLA to escape the first round of the playoffs. For now, the Wraiths and the Liberty will provide a good challenge before we kick off the playoffs
7. San Jose put together 2 wins last week to bring their win total up 200%. Look for them to rebuild at the draft and take a run at the playoffs next year
8. Oh Chicago, the topic of this weeks write up. See below for more
9. Philadelphia somehow beat Colorado and Baltimore, then went and lost against the Butchers and the Wraiths. This team makes no sense. A disappointing season in regards to the 7th spot they were projected to finish in
10. Arizona. They’re last in TPE, last in performance, and in last place on this power ranking. RIP
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]The Chicago Butchers[/div]
I will be adding a segment I’ve done sporadically. Each week I will analyze 1 team and pick out some of their games to do a short write up on, using the power rankings and the various stats that I keep track off. I’ve already done the Yeti, and this week I will be doing the Butchers.
I first want to note that the season Chicago is having is not an unexpected one. The TPE rankings early one predicted this quite well. 8th best team in TPE, 7th in terms of raw performance. This makes sense. Chicago is not under or overperforming, they’re exactly where they should be. The issue is, they got no picks. The Chicago management made a mistake here, but that being said, Chicago is playing fine for the team they have.
Game 1: A Monday game against the top team in their conference, proved to be a good showing for the Butchers, despite it not producing the result they might have wanted. Going up against the 2nd best offence at the time, the Butchers managed to hold the Hawks to 282 yards and 255 points. To put that into perspective, The Hawks were managed 429 yards before that game, good for 1st in the league. QB Havran threw for only 187 yards, 1 interception and a measly 63.6 QBR, while the Hawks RB’s managed only 2.6 and 3.4 avg yards on 14 attempts each. This, coming out of one of the worst defences, ranking 8th in overall defense/TPE, is a good sign for the Butchers, who played on the road. Unfortunately for the Butchers, The Hawks defense also came to play, holding the Butchers to 336 yards, which is a significant step down for the 5th best rated offense, coming into the game at 417 yards per game. The Hawks managed a safety which put this game up to a 5-point win. The safety ended up being clutch, as it came off the Butchers interception, killing any momentum they might have garnered from the play. In the end, I think this was a very winnable game for the Butchers, out performing in nearly every metric.
Game 2: A heartbreaking loss against a good Copperheads team was the Butchers 2nd game of this week. The Butcher’s lose a must win game against Austin and likely ruin their playoff chances going forward. Giving up 499 yards (albeit with one TD drive in OT probably boosting this # by 60-70) and 2 interceptions and 1 fumble to one of the top offences in this league is likely not a recipe for success. That being said, Chicago did force a Pick 6 turnover to make the game close in the 4th quarter before the Butchers tied it up on the last play of the 4th quarter. Promising for sure but these random events can’t be accounted on week in and week out. The fact of the matter is the Butchers simply are not good enough this year to win games that matter, especially on the defensive side of the football. Statistically the Butchers have a top 5 offense that will only get better, relative to the rest of the league, with expansion coming soon. It’s the defensive side that is killing them. One could make the argument that if the Butchers had the ball first in OT, they would have won. This might be true, but even so they didn’t and one can’t rely on coin flips to win themselves an Ultimus.
Game 3: Their lone win of the week. A boring 17-7 win against the Liberty. Jenkins played well with a 99.2 passer rating, I really have nothing to say about this game.
Game 4: This game was hard to watch. San Jose did things to the Butchers that shouldn’t be legal. 426 yards to the Butchers 295. 40 minutes of possession to the Butchers 20. This game was San Jose running the ball down the Butchers throat from start to finish. The one bright spot for the butchers is Rose Jenkins, who continues to perform despite the quality of team around them. One has to wonder if they can be a valuable trade asset going forward, but more on that later.
So where does that leave us? The Butchers are likely not destined for the playoffs this year, with an upcoming schedule of 2 road games and then a grueling week 13 matchup at home against the dominate New Orleans Second Line. I project at most 1 win, against the Sabercats on the road. With the Liberty starting to put it together, it’s a tossup between who finishes last, but if I had to pick, I’d say the Liberty probably have 2 more wins in them. This would leave the Butchers in 8th place, ahead of only the Sabercats and the Outlaws. I’d say this is about right, given the Butchers started the pre-season at my #8 spot in terms of raw TPE.
SOLUTIONS:
I read an article by user Thiath found here that talked about some of their ideas to fix the Butchers. I won’t give all my thoughts on the subject here but there are a few things I’d like to touch on.
1. I disagree with the idea of trading a first next year, for a first in this year’s draft. Mortgaging the future for the future is suboptimal.
a. That said I DO agree with trading a high value offensive piece. The Butchers already have their situation with aging RB Ryan Leaf Jr and a trade there will be likely. However, another piece I’d like to see moved is WR Ahri Espeeyeeseetee. Ahri is a high value 1000+ TPE WR that will enter regression shortly. The Butchers could likely get a 2nd for Ahri which in my view is a win in a draft class so deep
2. I disagree that Firestorm-Fjord should be prioritized in being kept around. Ideally you keep him but if there’s a fair offer for a first or a high second, you take that in an instant. The fact is, TE’s are not as important as say a LB on defense, and honestly the Butchers aren’t utilising him enough in the passing game as it is. If he’s there to run block, there are better more efficient options. Defense should be the priority for this draft and the Butchers badly need picks to rebuild here.
3. Chicago needs to rethink locker room presence, and the way they structure contracts. Overpaying guys does not make sense in a league like this where there are other teams that are nearly perfectly maximising their contracts. It puts you at an immediate disadvantage.
4. The Butchers need to prioritize DB’s in this next draft. Game 2 against the Copperheads should be a good indication that their pass D is not anywhere near where it needs to be.
Again, these are just very superficial thoughts on the subject for now. I do believe the Butchers have a 2-year timeline for playoffs and a 3-year timeline until they can seriously compete with the top 3 teams in this league. That’s quite a way off. It would be shortened by a year if the Butchers had draft capital already, but since they don’t this causes a serious delay. The good news for the Butchers is that there is so much depth in this draft, and they have plenty of needs. A team like NOLA won’t improve as much from the draft, relative to their current strength. The Butchers can even look to the 3rd and 4th rounds for picks and still find quality players that can fill a need.
Thanks for reading everyone!
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TLDR:
1. Orange County
2. New Orleans
3. Baltimore
4. Yellowknife
5. Colorado
6. Austin
7. San Jose
8. Chicago
9. Philadelphia
10. Arizona
Welcome everyone to the penultimate edition of the S(21) NSFL Power Rankings. Man what a journey this has been. This started off as just a thing to make money in the pre season and has morphed into quite a complex process. I will likely do something for the playoffs but it won’t be Power Rankings. I will say my pick for this years Ultimus winner will be NOLA, the same team I predicted would win the regular season at the start of preseason. We got one last power rankings next week after the week 13 games and then we’re off to the races with a very exciting playoff I’m sure. Thanks to everyone who reads these, these are a lot of fun to make. I realize they can be very controversial but I enjoy the discussion these can bring. These regularly pull 150-200 views, so I’m honored that so many of you are taking the time every week to give these a read!
Coming into the final stretch most teams have settled within 2 spots of their TPE ranking (except for OCO because they’re weird) and things are looking how they were predicted early on by these power rankings. Yellowknife, after a long season of not taking their rightful place at 4th, went 3-1 this past week with a clutch win at NOLA on the road and a win at home against the Otters. Baltimore was our other big winner this week, also going 3-1. We got two more games next week and our playoff teams are just about set. The only team that can possibly cause some ruckus are the Chicago Butchers who need to play the Orange County Otters on the road and NOLA at home in order to even have enough wins to challenge for a tie break.
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]METHOD[/div]
I’m simply copy and pasting the same method changes for both power rankings to reduce confusion on what is the latest methodology.
Changes for both NSFL and DSFL Power rankings this week include
1. Reweighting the formulas to make sure TPE is only 33% and not creeping up to 50+ (this was a mistake on my part in how I set things up)
2. Reduced emphasis on Index. Index now provides, at most, 1 point. Secondarily, extremely low index ratings wont affect performance ratings, as was the case in prior power rankings (again this is my bad. Brackets are hard and their misplacements caused a few errors). The final weightings so far should be 60-75% based in TPE and performance (which should be 33% and 66% respectively) and 40-25% based on Index. The variation is strictly due to the fact that only the max team gets 1 point from index, and other teams receive a fraction based on that 1 point, so their index contributions may be quite low and therefore may represent a smaller portion of their final score.
3. Recalculated how the “pure performance” bit is measured. It now totally takes out TPE from the picture (again due to how I was measuring things, TPE played a role. My bad here once again)
4. Tuned the defense and offensive variables to greater reward teams that play better in terms of yards and points. Now, top teams in each category can receive up to 1.5 points (up from 1 point) and teams not in the top place will receive a fraction of points based off of 1.5 max points (determined by their yards/points in relation to the max/least yards/points).
5. Finally, as putting out these power rankings can be quite time consuming, I have decided to only be updating my spreadsheets twice a season, once before week 1 games are played, and once before the first playoff game is played. I may consider also doing one at the halfway point of each season going forward as well, given I have just updated the spreadsheets for both leagues in terms of TPE status.
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]RESULTS[/div]
OFFENSIVE POWER RANKINGS
(number in brackets denotes TPE rankings)
1. New Orleans 4.5405 (3)
2. Baltimore 4.410 (4)
3. Austin 4.409 (1) UP 3
4. Orange County 4.347 (7) UP 1
5. Yellowknife 4.2830 (6) UP 2
6. Colorado 4.2355 (2) DOWN 3
7. Chicago 4.1842 (5) DOWN 3
8. Philadelphia 3.6187 (9)
9. Arizona 3.1515 (8)
10. San Jose 3.276 (10)
DEFENSIVE POWER RANKINGS
(number in brackets denotes TPE rankings)
1. New Orleans 4.2975 (1)
2. Orange County 4.15335 (6)
3. Yellowknife 3.6128 (3) UP 1
4. Colorado 3.5902 (2) DOWN 1
5. Baltimore 2.9673 (4)
6. San Jose 3.4420 (8)
7. Philadelphia 3.2993 (5)
8. Austin 3.128 (7)
9. Chicago 2.9995 (9)
10. Arizona 2.8132 (10)
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]
FINAL COMBINED POWER RANKINGS WITH INDEX[/div]
(First bracket number is purely stats/performance. Second number is TPE rankings)
1. Orange County 3.8266 (1) (6) UP 1
2. New Orleans 3.7024 (2) (1) DOWN 1
3. Baltimore 3.3048 (3) (3) UP 2
4. Yellowknife 3.1970 (4) (4) UP 3
5. Colorado 3.1015 (5) (2) DOWN 2
6. Austin 2.8028 (6) (5) DOWN 2
7. San Jose 2.7044 (8) (9) UP 2
8. Chicago 2.6519 (7) (8) DOWN 2
9. Philadelphia 2.5533 (9) (7) UP 1
10. Arizona 2.1292 (10) (10) DOWN 1
1. Orange County: With 2 NOLA losses, Orange County, which started this preseason at #6, sits at #1 on this list. NOLA still sits at #1 thanks to a TPE lead but in terms of raw performance and raw yards/points, OCO has been #1. Both teams have play Baltimore on the road next week, so the battle of season winner will ultimately be decided by the hawks. OCO is quite simply put, probably the best sim tested organization in the entire league. Going 5-1 on the road, with a TPE deficit I mentioned earlier, I am simply amazed at what OCO has accomplished
2. NOLA, our season leader until this week two heartbreaking losses against two top 4 teams. NOLA showed this week that they can be beat. Going into this last week they absolutely need to win both games and bounce back into form for the playoffs.
3. Baltimore is facing the ultimate challenge next week with games against our #1 AND #2 team. With playoff seeding on the line, next week will be a true test for Baltimore. 2 wins next week and I can see many people having Baltimore as their favorite to win it all
4. Welcome Yellowknife to the top 4, where you belong. The wraiths have messed around at the bottom for far too long, and with a 3-1 run this week, they finally are up with the top teams. 2 road games next week should pose a challenge, expect the Wraiths to go 1-1
5. Colorado, my #2 team coming into the season, finds themselves at 5th. Two easy games against two bottom teams next week should grant Colorado a 2-0 week and a chance at the top seed however.
6. Austin, our Ultimus winners last year, clinched a playoff spot with a win over the Arizona Outlaws. They’ll have to play one of OCO or NOLA to escape the first round of the playoffs. For now, the Wraiths and the Liberty will provide a good challenge before we kick off the playoffs
7. San Jose put together 2 wins last week to bring their win total up 200%. Look for them to rebuild at the draft and take a run at the playoffs next year
8. Oh Chicago, the topic of this weeks write up. See below for more
9. Philadelphia somehow beat Colorado and Baltimore, then went and lost against the Butchers and the Wraiths. This team makes no sense. A disappointing season in regards to the 7th spot they were projected to finish in
10. Arizona. They’re last in TPE, last in performance, and in last place on this power ranking. RIP
[div align=\\\"center\\\"]The Chicago Butchers[/div]
I will be adding a segment I’ve done sporadically. Each week I will analyze 1 team and pick out some of their games to do a short write up on, using the power rankings and the various stats that I keep track off. I’ve already done the Yeti, and this week I will be doing the Butchers.
I first want to note that the season Chicago is having is not an unexpected one. The TPE rankings early one predicted this quite well. 8th best team in TPE, 7th in terms of raw performance. This makes sense. Chicago is not under or overperforming, they’re exactly where they should be. The issue is, they got no picks. The Chicago management made a mistake here, but that being said, Chicago is playing fine for the team they have.
Game 1: A Monday game against the top team in their conference, proved to be a good showing for the Butchers, despite it not producing the result they might have wanted. Going up against the 2nd best offence at the time, the Butchers managed to hold the Hawks to 282 yards and 255 points. To put that into perspective, The Hawks were managed 429 yards before that game, good for 1st in the league. QB Havran threw for only 187 yards, 1 interception and a measly 63.6 QBR, while the Hawks RB’s managed only 2.6 and 3.4 avg yards on 14 attempts each. This, coming out of one of the worst defences, ranking 8th in overall defense/TPE, is a good sign for the Butchers, who played on the road. Unfortunately for the Butchers, The Hawks defense also came to play, holding the Butchers to 336 yards, which is a significant step down for the 5th best rated offense, coming into the game at 417 yards per game. The Hawks managed a safety which put this game up to a 5-point win. The safety ended up being clutch, as it came off the Butchers interception, killing any momentum they might have garnered from the play. In the end, I think this was a very winnable game for the Butchers, out performing in nearly every metric.
Game 2: A heartbreaking loss against a good Copperheads team was the Butchers 2nd game of this week. The Butcher’s lose a must win game against Austin and likely ruin their playoff chances going forward. Giving up 499 yards (albeit with one TD drive in OT probably boosting this # by 60-70) and 2 interceptions and 1 fumble to one of the top offences in this league is likely not a recipe for success. That being said, Chicago did force a Pick 6 turnover to make the game close in the 4th quarter before the Butchers tied it up on the last play of the 4th quarter. Promising for sure but these random events can’t be accounted on week in and week out. The fact of the matter is the Butchers simply are not good enough this year to win games that matter, especially on the defensive side of the football. Statistically the Butchers have a top 5 offense that will only get better, relative to the rest of the league, with expansion coming soon. It’s the defensive side that is killing them. One could make the argument that if the Butchers had the ball first in OT, they would have won. This might be true, but even so they didn’t and one can’t rely on coin flips to win themselves an Ultimus.
Game 3: Their lone win of the week. A boring 17-7 win against the Liberty. Jenkins played well with a 99.2 passer rating, I really have nothing to say about this game.
Game 4: This game was hard to watch. San Jose did things to the Butchers that shouldn’t be legal. 426 yards to the Butchers 295. 40 minutes of possession to the Butchers 20. This game was San Jose running the ball down the Butchers throat from start to finish. The one bright spot for the butchers is Rose Jenkins, who continues to perform despite the quality of team around them. One has to wonder if they can be a valuable trade asset going forward, but more on that later.
So where does that leave us? The Butchers are likely not destined for the playoffs this year, with an upcoming schedule of 2 road games and then a grueling week 13 matchup at home against the dominate New Orleans Second Line. I project at most 1 win, against the Sabercats on the road. With the Liberty starting to put it together, it’s a tossup between who finishes last, but if I had to pick, I’d say the Liberty probably have 2 more wins in them. This would leave the Butchers in 8th place, ahead of only the Sabercats and the Outlaws. I’d say this is about right, given the Butchers started the pre-season at my #8 spot in terms of raw TPE.
SOLUTIONS:
I read an article by user Thiath found here that talked about some of their ideas to fix the Butchers. I won’t give all my thoughts on the subject here but there are a few things I’d like to touch on.
1. I disagree with the idea of trading a first next year, for a first in this year’s draft. Mortgaging the future for the future is suboptimal.
a. That said I DO agree with trading a high value offensive piece. The Butchers already have their situation with aging RB Ryan Leaf Jr and a trade there will be likely. However, another piece I’d like to see moved is WR Ahri Espeeyeeseetee. Ahri is a high value 1000+ TPE WR that will enter regression shortly. The Butchers could likely get a 2nd for Ahri which in my view is a win in a draft class so deep
2. I disagree that Firestorm-Fjord should be prioritized in being kept around. Ideally you keep him but if there’s a fair offer for a first or a high second, you take that in an instant. The fact is, TE’s are not as important as say a LB on defense, and honestly the Butchers aren’t utilising him enough in the passing game as it is. If he’s there to run block, there are better more efficient options. Defense should be the priority for this draft and the Butchers badly need picks to rebuild here.
3. Chicago needs to rethink locker room presence, and the way they structure contracts. Overpaying guys does not make sense in a league like this where there are other teams that are nearly perfectly maximising their contracts. It puts you at an immediate disadvantage.
4. The Butchers need to prioritize DB’s in this next draft. Game 2 against the Copperheads should be a good indication that their pass D is not anywhere near where it needs to be.
Again, these are just very superficial thoughts on the subject for now. I do believe the Butchers have a 2-year timeline for playoffs and a 3-year timeline until they can seriously compete with the top 3 teams in this league. That’s quite a way off. It would be shortened by a year if the Butchers had draft capital already, but since they don’t this causes a serious delay. The good news for the Butchers is that there is so much depth in this draft, and they have plenty of needs. A team like NOLA won’t improve as much from the draft, relative to their current strength. The Butchers can even look to the 3rd and 4th rounds for picks and still find quality players that can fill a need.
Thanks for reading everyone!
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