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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Teams have openly admitted that they'll jump online and use one of those draft charts to finalize a trade.
Teams use different charts, but the publicly available ones are seemingly very very close to what these guys are actually using. When you see teams include a 6th round pick for a 7th round pick in the back end of a swap, do you REALLY think that wasn't done using a chart and a calculator? Of course it was -- they're closing up the math using whatever trade chart it is they tend to favor.
It's extremely rare that the return doesn't very closely match the predicted return on the 'charts'. And it seems like when it doesn't, we actually end up on the losing side of the math.
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What you're saying is true, but it's also true that some trades are made that vary significantly from what the draft chart would seem to indicate. I recall that the trade the Bears made with the 49ers to move up from #3 to #2 was wildly out of line with the chart.
ETA - I looked up that Bears trade and I overstated things when I said it was wildly out of line with the chart. It was still a bad trade though given that the 49ers were extremely unlikely to take Trubisky with that pick.