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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

NFL Draft Slotting

By Tangotiger, 02:22 PM

Phil Birnbaum points to an article here with a cool chart that assigns a value to each draft slot. If you work it out, it basically becomes a logarithmic function that looks like this:

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