from next install of ETTG... i'm not in the habit of posting subscriber content before it appears ( 
), but since it is just an excerpt (& if and in case it gives some IDP owners a different take as we approach WW pick up and trade moratoriums in many leagues)... a holiday present...
DON'T BE A SLAVE TO MEASURABLES
Size and speed can be overrated. Don't get me wrong, you should familiarize yourself with arcana such as triangle numbers and explosiveness measures like Combine drills. But ultimately... you are looking for football players. NFL front offices and fantasy warrooms alike would miss out on elite, blue chip talents ala Steve Smith if they set their scouting criteria within too narrow a band (or on irrelevant or the WRONG criteria). Perception is selective, in both individuals and organizations. The gateways and filters everybody employs to render intelligible the sheer volume of the data firehose involved in tracking the entire league (ansd entailed changes organizationally, in coaching staff, personnell, etc.) and incoming draft classes necessitates this. But if thresholds are too constrained, potentially pivotal and critically important information can elude us. Some types of errors are committed by having a piece of information or opportunity come our way and failing to appreciate or understand it. But at least we are given the chance to evaluate it. If we consciously program our thought processes to ignore certain forms of information, we aren't even given the chance to make judements and decisions on potentially future stud prospects like Steve Smith if they are too small or too slow. Don't be too restrictive in the types of information you process. There may be branching points in a team's history where we could look back and say that making one decision instead of another could cause the future to fork off into entirely different pathways and directions (like the difference between winning and losing). Let it at least be a conscious one... like "the road less travelled" by Robert Frost. Master measurables (and expand your repertoire of comp player case studies where they are relevant and where they AREN'T)... so they don't master you.
), but since it is just an excerpt (& if and in case it gives some IDP owners a different take as we approach WW pick up and trade moratoriums in many leagues)... a holiday present...DON'T BE A SLAVE TO MEASURABLES
Size and speed can be overrated. Don't get me wrong, you should familiarize yourself with arcana such as triangle numbers and explosiveness measures like Combine drills. But ultimately... you are looking for football players. NFL front offices and fantasy warrooms alike would miss out on elite, blue chip talents ala Steve Smith if they set their scouting criteria within too narrow a band (or on irrelevant or the WRONG criteria). Perception is selective, in both individuals and organizations. The gateways and filters everybody employs to render intelligible the sheer volume of the data firehose involved in tracking the entire league (ansd entailed changes organizationally, in coaching staff, personnell, etc.) and incoming draft classes necessitates this. But if thresholds are too constrained, potentially pivotal and critically important information can elude us. Some types of errors are committed by having a piece of information or opportunity come our way and failing to appreciate or understand it. But at least we are given the chance to evaluate it. If we consciously program our thought processes to ignore certain forms of information, we aren't even given the chance to make judements and decisions on potentially future stud prospects like Steve Smith if they are too small or too slow. Don't be too restrictive in the types of information you process. There may be branching points in a team's history where we could look back and say that making one decision instead of another could cause the future to fork off into entirely different pathways and directions (like the difference between winning and losing). Let it at least be a conscious one... like "the road less travelled" by Robert Frost. Master measurables (and expand your repertoire of comp player case studies where they are relevant and where they AREN'T)... so they don't master you.
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I'll be interested to see your perspective. 
& oz, that made me think of a few examples... i was starting to think early on colston was for real because i literally never saw him drop the ball (i still haven't more than halfway through season, except for maybe a tipped ball that would have been a tough catch), the cowboys seem to have responded to romo, & i like the heart frank gore runs with compared to barlow... he has given SF a big boost...related to above point, colston was thought by many too big & too slow to be a difference maker... somewhere between where most owners were hag-ridden by this flawed presupposition (or fact that he was ONLY a 7th rounder... lightning struck twice for saints, as his running mate joe horn was himself a UFA, that didn't break out until he moved on from KC to NO), and the point at which a few more games elapsed and EVERYBODY became sold... was a window of opportunity to exploit in some leagues (attending to these matters might make our timing better)...romo doesn't have prototypical size (far from it), but he seems to have the intangibles, that "IT" quality...gore didn't run a 4.4, but he runs hard, has great contact balance, is determined, tough, has an exemplary motor... a whole constellation of nice physical traits and personal attributes that fall outside the scope of 40 time, which would be beside the point in this case...
