Evaluation of HS players

[sfcane2]

I’ve often wondered why teams don’t spend more resources evaluating players ie building out scouting departments. The star system is great given the current staffing resources but the fact is it basically misses thousands of great players.

Look no further than the NFL roster composition:

2018 NFL Roster Breakdown (by round drafted)

UDFA- 31.7%
1st - 14.3%
2nd- 10.7%
3rd- 10.4%
4th- 10.0%
5th- 9.0%
6th- 8.4%
7th- 5.5%

 

[canes00]

Your question and your data don't match up. You're saying schools should be investing more to find the overlooked future stars. The data you shared shows the NFL draft might be overrated and that NFL teams should be investing more resources into scouting.

 

[Invalid Username]

The NFL draft is very overrated. Everyone gets so caught up in the combine numbers. Number don't mean s*** if you can't play ball on the field. I would much rather take a kid who proves he belongs on the field and tests average than someone with freakish numbers but is trash on the field.

 

[OriginalGatorHater]

I’ve often wondered why teams don’t spend more resources evaluating players ie building out scouting departments. The star system is great given the current staffing resources but the fact is it basically misses thousands of great players.

Look no further than the NFL roster composition:

2018 NFL Roster Breakdown (by round drafted)

UDFA- 31.7%
1st - 14.3%
2nd- 10.7%
3rd- 10.4%
4th- 10.0%
5th- 9.0%
6th- 8.4%
7th- 5.5%

That really doesn't prove your point at all. 1st-7th round each have 32 kids. So when the number of kids per class stay the same 1st rounds guys perform best, 2nd 2nd best, so on and so forth. There are about 3000 players that go undrafted each year. so it would make sense that 3000 players will make up more roster space then 32 first round kids. Even if you want to narrow it down to UDFA that end up getting signed. the 1st rounders and even 7th rounders massively out perform them when you factor in the amount of players in each category.