In reply to: Tx. I was wondering about Dexter Williams combine time posted by SEE
and large amounts of money are being spent, measurables are the quickest way to quantify and justify resource expenditure in development.
This isn't European soccer, where the best teams get 60+ games a year, or the NBA/NHL/MLB with far more than that.
The players you draft have to produce, and do so quickly, and measurables are a large component of standardizing results.
Otherwise, you just have to go on "guts instinct", and sign players that don't land in the top of the draft and try to build a system around that. But that's crazy, no one would ever do that...
On premise.
an abomination.