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July 08, 2008
The Best $166 million can buy.: Sports Illustrated experts Michael Lombardi and Bucky Brooks both set out to build the best teams they could under the current NFL salary cap.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia to football at 06:35 PM - 5 comments
Agreed. They could have at least plugged the teams into Madden 08 and simulated a game.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 10:34 PM on July 08, 2008
I liked the article -- thought the rosters had some good value in them. It would be interesting to run them as "fantasy rosters" all season and see what the results were.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:59 AM on July 09, 2008
You'd lose. Badly.
posted by yerfatma at 09:05 AM on July 09, 2008
Agreed. They could have at least plugged the teams into Madden 08 and simulated a game. Yeah, or even a best-of-seven series or a hundred simulated games, just to iron out all the oddities. But then you'd lose the narrative of one game (however ridiculous and detached from reality it might be), as well as the intangibles like the possible synergy between Schottenheimer, Cameron and Drew Brees. It would have tremendously improved the article if they did do the Madden simulations in addition to Dr. Z's narrative, and then provided the stats for the players over the course of a "season".
posted by LionIndex at 10:16 AM on July 09, 2008
Cool link, but I wish they used a better simulator than What Some Old Guy Thinks. Not that I don't like Dr. Z.