All things off season 2015.

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Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

I read somewhere that an anonymous GM said that there are only 19 legitimate 1st Rounders in this draft. That causes me to think that there may be numerous teams looking to trade up into the middle of the 1st Round for a specific player. I'm thinking there may be more trades than usual in this draft

A few points.

1st, clearly very few teams see the draft the same. This anon GM may/may not have a minority opinion as it regards the number of "1st round" prospects.

2nd, at the end of the day the draft remains a crap shoot the true answer is to have more rolls of the dice not less. Therefore trading up for a specific player is usually an ineffective proposition in the long term team building perspective. I don't think having fewer perceived 1st round prospects will spurn more teams to chase perceived value. Player 20-32 don't suddenly become inferior prospects because of perception of grades.

3rd, if there are so few ' true' 1st round prospects then why would those 19 teams want to trade down?

Its an interesting theory that more trades will happen then usual but I disagree and I also disagree with the anon GM's notion of there only being "19 " 1st round prospects.