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HSAC’s 2021 NFL Draft Report

April 23, 2021
by harvardsports
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Tucker Boynton and Ella Papanek cap off a semester of research with an in-depth breakdown of every NFL team's trade performances, position preferences, and overall success in the NFL Draft.

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HSAC’s 2020 NFL Mock Draft

April 22, 2020
by harvardsports
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By Ella Papanek, Reid Piercy, Charles Hua, Lev Cohen, and Danny Blumenthal The NFL Draft is almost here, so it’s time for our bold predictions for Thursday night. Check out which players HSAC thinks will rise up in the...

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Predicting the NFL Draft Using Seven Numbers

April 29, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Bill Lotter I know you’ve probably seen 17 mock drafts, so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet.  Back in February, I built models to predict where a player will be drafted and how well they will do in the NFL using...

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NFL Draft: Do BCS Champions Make NFL Busts?

April 24, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Henry Johnson With the NFL draft less than one week away, teams are scrambling to determine which characteristics of potential picks matter and which ones don’t. One possible trap to which teams might fall prey is an...

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The Combine Actually Matters, Part Two

February 24, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Bill Lotter Yesterday I made a bunch of claims about the NFL Combine.  Now it’s time to back it up.  For quantifying performance, I explained why I will be using the 3 Year Approximate Value (3YAV).  Just think of this as...

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The NFL Combine Actually Matters

February 23, 2015
by harvardsports
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by Bill Lotter It’s a simple question.  Does the combine actually matter?  Or it is just an over-hyped meat market?  In answering these questions, there’s two ways we could look at things:  1. Does performance at the...

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Do NFL Teams Think the Combine Matters: Defense

March 5, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Anthony Zonfrelli As I studied the predictive value of NFL combine events on the draft picks of offensive players, this post examines which combine tests NFL front offices tend to focus on when selecting defensive recruits...

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Do NFL Teams Think the Combine Matters: Offense

February 28, 2013
by harvardsports
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By Anthony Zonfrelli Last February, HSAC member Kevin Meers analyzed which combine events (namely 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical leap, broad jump, 20-yard shuttle, and 3-cone drill) actually translate into future NFL success...

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Why Any NFL GM Who Reads Bleacher Report Should Be Fired: A Response to “Why Any NFL GM Who Uses the Harvard NFL Pick Value Chart Should Be Fired”

May 29, 2012
by harvardsports
5 min read
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In April, a writer for the Bleacher Report (BR) attempted to critique a new pick value chart for the NFL draft that I created and that HSAC published. There are many legitimate criticisms of my work in that article that are worth...

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Equally Inaccurate: An Analysis of Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay’s Draft Rankings

May 25, 2012
by harvardsports
6 min read
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