In Season 7, Ryan Lefevre was selected 5th Overall. He never earned TPE post-draft. Other (better) selections are always identified in hindsight, but you cannot put too much weight in that since Front Office Staff cannot see the future. However, when someone is selected as a top draft pick, you at least expect them to bring value – any value. When an individual functionally “holds out” and “retires” immediately following their selection, literally any other activity equates to more value from the pick, even if they had traded their pick for the last pick in the draft.
The same can be said for “character issues” and other intangibles. If teams had interviews with players prior to playing or other metrics by which to judge character and compatibility, than perhaps my argument would be different. However, any players that fell short of their potential or went inactive at least provided *some* value to the team. But when analyzed from the metric of “how did this draft pick set the franchise back?”, it functionally resulted in a team with a top selection as never having picked a player at all. And just to add insult to injury, a salary cap hit to boot. Colorado could have deferred their pick until the last pick in the draft and donated cap space to charity and still gotten better value.
In conclusion, the reason I selected this player is because he had no progress following selection and was the highest selection in this category.
(As an aside, I’d like to thank infinitempg for providing some references for us new players who would lose out on this opportunity absent some history lessons from veterans. Also, I apologize to Mr. Lefevre should he ever return, but… this is the prompt and analysis is analysis, yes?)
The same can be said for “character issues” and other intangibles. If teams had interviews with players prior to playing or other metrics by which to judge character and compatibility, than perhaps my argument would be different. However, any players that fell short of their potential or went inactive at least provided *some* value to the team. But when analyzed from the metric of “how did this draft pick set the franchise back?”, it functionally resulted in a team with a top selection as never having picked a player at all. And just to add insult to injury, a salary cap hit to boot. Colorado could have deferred their pick until the last pick in the draft and donated cap space to charity and still gotten better value.
In conclusion, the reason I selected this player is because he had no progress following selection and was the highest selection in this category.
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248 Words(As an aside, I’d like to thank infinitempg for providing some references for us new players who would lose out on this opportunity absent some history lessons from veterans. Also, I apologize to Mr. Lefevre should he ever return, but… this is the prompt and analysis is analysis, yes?)
