Perfect Draft 10 Team vs. Draft Dominator (1 Viewer)

[no3putts]

For those who use the draft dominator application, do you also follow the prinicples of the Perfect Draft article? My mocks are coming out very differently by doing so, and was wondering if Draft Dominator alone provides enough dynamic analysis or if you go off the top 50 and then move onto draft dominator.

 

[no3putts]

In short, I guess is the perfect draft meant for those not using DD or should it be used in conjuction with DD?

 

[rjduncan19]

DD crunches numbers, the PD articles insert some reality and talk about draft strategy. Always taking best available player will give you a pretty lousy team. Do you want to force 3 RBs in the first three rounds? How do you need to adjust the rest of your draft. Do you want to jump on the top defense, and what does that do to the rest of your roster? To Gates or not to Gates?

It tries to quantify a LOT of things, but will still do some crazy things. For example, I just did a mock where it took Brees in the 3rd round, then wanted me to take a backup QB in round 6 (even though it had the "need multiplier" set to 0.5 on QB).

Of course, if you just use DD then it will be Henderson & Dodds' fault if your team sucks

 

[1huskerfan]

DD crunches numbers, the PD articles insert some reality and talk about draft strategy. Always taking best available player will give you a pretty lousy team. Do you want to force 3 RBs in the first three rounds? How do you need to adjust the rest of your draft. Do you want to jump on the top defense, and what does that do to the rest of your roster? To Gates or not to Gates?

It tries to quantify a LOT of things, but will still do some crazy things. For example, I just did a mock where it took Brees in the 3rd round, then wanted me to take a backup QB in round 6 (even though it had the "need multiplier" set to 0.5 on QB).

Of course, if you just use DD then it will be Henderson & Dodds' fault if your team sucks

I don't see anything wrong with this. Leaving value on the board means someone else gets it. There's a point where you have to start filling out your roster, but going RB-RB-RB when it's the correct value pick is a bad example.

 

[rjduncan19]

DD crunches numbers, the PD articles insert some reality and talk about draft strategy. Always taking best available player will give you a pretty lousy team. Do you want to force 3 RBs in the first three rounds? How do you need to adjust the rest of your draft. Do you want to jump on the top defense, and what does that do to the rest of your roster? To Gates or not to Gates?

It tries to quantify a LOT of things, but will still do some crazy things. For example, I just did a mock where it took Brees in the 3rd round, then wanted me to take a backup QB in round 6 (even though it had the "need multiplier" set to 0.5 on QB).

Of course, if you just use DD then it will be Henderson & Dodds' fault if your team sucks

I don't see anything wrong with this. Leaving value on the board means someone else gets it. There's a point where you have to start filling out your roster, but going RB-RB-RB when it's the correct value pick is a bad example.

Sorry, I was a little ambiguous, I was implying that DD may suggest you stray from RB/RB/RB in the first 3 rounds, but you may still want to go stud-RB as your draft strategy.DD is a tool (and a very good one), but at the end of the day YOU need to draft YOUR team.

A couple of things DD doesn't do:

1) Take the safety of picks into account. Right now this is all done from projections, so if Clinton Portis doesn't look as healthy Dodds just knocks down his TD/yardage total or something, which causes his value to drop. BUT, what if you ended up with your top 3 RBs all recovering from injurys at the start of the season? A good drafter will probably sprinkle in some safer picks.

2) Know how YOUR leaguemates draft. It can use ADP to predict dropoff, but if you know that QBs go early in your league maybe you don't need to jump as quickly at RB.

3) The dishes in my kitchen sink