They say that everything old is new again!
Looking at the opening 2 posts of this thread from the pre-season of 2014, you could be forgiven for thinking it referred to 2016!
A quick browse will show you what I mean, rather than me reproducing them here.
In a nutshell, we had 6 players added to the Def list in 2014, that in 2013 couldn't be chosen as Defs.
McVeigh, Bartell and Walker lead the Def prices at $572,500 and we also had Mitchell S, Hodge, and Simpson K added in for good measure.
Some Coaches on the site were bemoaning that the skill was being removed from the game, and that nearly every team would end up with these six as their final Def line, and they'd all be top 8-10 Defs, for sure! I warned this was trap thinking, and unlikely to happen, on both accounts.
So how does history show that they went?
It's interesting to look back, isn't it? Only three of the six turned out to be good picks! Interestingly enough, Bartel and McVeigh were two of those, and here they again, two years later!
The other thing I find interesting is their lowest available trade in price prior to Round 14. The successful ones never dipped more than $50k! Keep in mind, a player will drop 10% roughly, just by scoring at last seasons average. The others dipped a bit more, but that might have just been enough to trap some unsuspecting coaches.
So what lesson do we take from this for 2016?
The supposed new riches in the Def line won't all turn out to be smart picks.
The ones that do turn out to be smart picks probably won't drop
that much in price! (but they will drop 8-12%, at some stage!)
