The always excellent Mike Sando [1] points out a Monte Burke story on Forbes about the teams that have been the best and the worst at drafting over the last several years.
He rates the Texans as the best-drafting team, which Sando rightly points out is likely due to the fact that they kinda don't have anyone worth keeping.
When I posted my metric for evaluating drafting ability, GSAA, one of the evaluation's best picks came out as C.C. Brown -- who someone rightly pointed out is a Texans safety who sucks, but who plays because they're really weak at safety.
The way GSAA works now is to compare each player to the ten overall picks on either side of him (so picks 1-10 and 11-20 for the 10th overall pick, with players in the top ten being compared to only other top ten players) who play the same position, to produce a position-adjusted games started above expected metric on a seasonal level.
The problem with this, of course, is that it doesn't weight the quality of the play beyond simply starting a game. Tom Brady deserves more credit for his starts than David Diehl, and Diehl more credit than Brown.
Any ideas on how to improve this or other draft metrics?
Links:
[1] http://myespn.go.com/blogs/nfcwest/0-8-591/How-to-evaluate-past-draft-classes.html