“Position Investment” Data Pending on Jason Licht
April 28, 2024
The steady growth of sports gambling has led Joe to pay more attention to some of the interesting data that comes with those peddling statistics rather than grades, opinions, and hard numbers.
So summer sports, The company, led by former Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff, is trying to position itself as a data company that can not only improve its reputation with fans, but also draw in large sums of money from NFL teams.
Joe has been monitoring Sumer Sports since its inception and actually talked about it privately with Dimitrov at the NFL Owners Conference in Arizona last year. So Joe has a lot of faith in their numbers.
On Thursday night's draft show, Sumer Sports shared an important piece of Bucks general manager Jason Richt's position history over the past 10 years, known as his “draft capital percentage.”
The quick explanation is that each draft pick has a different “capital value,” so the data takes into account where the player was selected.
According to Sumer Sports, Richt (from 2014 to 2023) spent 20.2% of his draft capital on the defensive line (including outside linebackers), 19.2% on defensive backs, and 15.8% on the offensive line.
And what did Richt do with the first three picks of the 2024 draft? Richt played on the offensive line, defensive line and defensive back.
Given that Richt also selected an offensive lineman in Round 6, Joe suspects that the new “percentage of draft capital” Richt is spending will be close to evenly distributed between D-line, O-line, and defensive backs. There is.
There are definitely patterns in Richt's draft history, and they have served him extremely well throughout the second half of his tenure.