Hey guys and girls, something I'm struggling to get my head around is how Eli Templeton can be priced around 130k when he was only taken in the Rookie Draft. Most payers taken in the main draft past pick 30 or so are in the 117k range. Does this mean that Champion Data rate him much more highly than his actual pick? It seems to be a very real pricing anomaly. Thoughts, comments?
Am interested to know why he is higher as well... Could be that he was pick 3 in the rookie draft? Are Sam Schultz and James Harmes a little higher as well??
apparently this year there is a sliding scale in therookie draft as well for the first XX players drafted, surely it would be much better to keep that to the national draftand GWSMartin/Hogan mini-draft only??
Fitzy, you were spot on mate. Very weird that three players how were bypassed in the main draft can have higher prices than those players taken before them. Makes no sense to me at all.
Here's a little excerpt of an article I'm writing: For the first time this year, salaries of first-year players selected in the Rookie Draft have also been set based on their draft position, with #1 pick, Sam Schulz, starting on $134,400 - priced slightly higher than hot prospect Luke Dunstan, who was drafted at pick 18 of the National Draft. The cheapest players in SuperCoach are the first-year players selected in the Rookie Draft outside of round 1 and they are priced at $102,400. All first year players selected in 1st round of rookie draft have higher salaries than those selected later. I agree it is strange, considering they weren't drafted in the national draft!
Thanks Anthak, nice insight. I'm wondering if the elevated pricing of 1st round 'rookie draft' players might be a function of the thinking that 'they were drafted before and as such might have been on a list already and thus are more proven'. If so, it is fairly flawed thinking. my 2 cents, YMMV. Cheers, Bill