I was looking at profootballreference.com's "CarAV" (Career Approximate Value) rating as it relates to drafting. If the CarAV rating is to be trusted, it would seem to be a fair approximation of any given player's worth over his career. I'm sure it's not perfect, but any time I look at it, the rating seems to be in the ballpark of what seems right.
So on the assumption that CarAV is a useful approximation of a player's worth, I've compiled the cumulative CarAV of players drafted by every team since 2000 to 2014, i.e. the Belichick era, to be able to compare his yield with other franchises. (Because I was curious and had a few hours to kill.) Further, I've also separated out the drafts since 2009-2014 after Pioli left the franchise and people generally agree that the drafting improved over the last few previous years.
There are going to be oddities to this, such as:
So on the assumption that CarAV is a useful approximation of a player's worth, I've compiled the cumulative CarAV of players drafted by every team since 2000 to 2014, i.e. the Belichick era, to be able to compare his yield with other franchises. (Because I was curious and had a few hours to kill.) Further, I've also separated out the drafts since 2009-2014 after Pioli left the franchise and people generally agree that the drafting improved over the last few previous years.
There are going to be oddities to this, such as:
- If you draft a guy and he goes somewhere else and produces, you still get credit for drafting him, and vice versa. So the Pats get credit for drafting Ted Larsen who never played a down here, and Minnesota gets credit for Randy Moss' production after he leaves the Vikings.
- Punters and kickers get credited in this rating, but special teams mavens get zip. Matthew Slater has a career rating of "0" despite being a perennial Pro Bowler.
- Undrafted free agents aren't counted, so Bill gets no credit for BJGE, Randall Gay, Malcolm Butler and others.
- Playoff production isn't counted as far as I can tell.