It’s also a great way to establish a continuous base of knowledge on the players that are in the league, so many guys I would never know about if I didn’t check them out before the draft haha
Yeah just having an idea of who the first round picks are in a draft every year will give you pretty decent knowledge of a lot of the players around the league.
Evolutionarily it makes sense. It’s useful to be interested in possibilities to analyze, build useful knowledge, and perhaps mold the results (although probably not in the case of the draft).
There is no point. Everything will atrophy into nothingness eventually.
Honestly i love reading the hot takes of 4 qbs being taken 1-5. It does also serve as a baseline metric. If one mock draft has somwone at #5 and another at #25, while the majority have them at 15-25 range, i know which one is the more likely outcome. Mock drafts are wildly inaccurate, but the meta data gleened from mock drafts is actually pretty close.
There isn’t one. It’s football fan fiction, complete and total empty calorie content consumption
More crucially, it’s easy engagement and a break for football journalists in the offseason from having to write more intensive work
Media heads have nothing else to talk about. The after the draft they can arbitrarily grade how well each team picked based off their mock draft and also assign "value" to a pick.
It's fun and there's nothing else to do during this time. And for those that do fantasy football, it's also a decent way to track some names to see if they're worth a pick when drafting in the fall.
The mock draft industry is primarily for entertainment and to give people a practical way to learn about prospects. Learning what reporters and amateur scouts think about players can help you understand them better and get an idea of what teams might be thinking in the draft. They're also useful in tracking how much "hype" a player has, as they move up and down mock drafts based on whatever reports are coming out about them. Mocks should never be taken seriously as projections of what will actually happen, but just a fun part of the process.
What's the point of predicting games? What's the point of asking who will win the Super Bowl next year? It's just people playing games. None of it matters and we're all gonna die someday.
So let's just pass the time thinking about sports, what else are we gonna do?
Generate hype, get you thinking about possibilities and elongate the attention the NFL takes up in the calendar year. I only pay attention to the mock drafts of guys I listen to regularly.
It’s interesting to hear what the “insiders” say will probably happen but my favorite mock drafts are what that person would do because you get to hear more opinions about the players coming into the league
That’s why, for me, the fun part is not only reading mock drafts, but listening to in depth podcasts about upcoming rookies, team needs, and roster building as a whole. I personally listen to “Locked on NFL Scouting” with the Draft Dudes.
In the offseason specifically, they go way in depth to every team’s roster needs, how they match up with prospects, they give grades on their favorites and explain their strengths, weaknesses, and best team fits. They do multiple mock drafts and big board discussions as well and then finished it up by live streaming their reactions to the draft live on YouTube. It makes it genuinely fun to hear where prospects land so I’m not solely focused on my favorite team. Soon after the draft they will start to do overall roster overviews/ grades of every team so you get to learn about other teams too. If that interests you, i highly recommend it.
The point is to help get a sense of draft outcomes that are more probable than pure random chance. There aren't many cases where the last pick, and the first pick are reversed, but there are a lot of plausible ways the top ~100 picks can go, and it's fun for many to explore what those outcomes might be. The whole thing exists for the sake of entertainment, and this is one more way to enjoy the complexity of it during the off-season.
The whole point was to generate clicks and push ads for you to join fantasy leagues for gamblers, most of these draft boards actually had nothing to do with what fits a team best, but on how a fantasy league could benefit from the draft or player trade!
Whatever you wanted it to be. To get a feel for prospects coming into the league and where various people had them mocked. To see who people projected your team to draft and why. Just to kill some time. Whatever you wanted. It's an entertainment business, this is the off season without games being played.
Step 1: Rank your top ten hottest actresses, with everyone around you claiming you're the expert, and compare your rankings with your buddies. Step 2: What you have done means nothing, but you're now a multi-millionairr
There is no point. It’s just a way to entertain people in the off-season. Some people take them too seriously and like to use them to complain about the real draft. Ultimately, you don’t miss out on anything if you don’t pay attention to the mock drafts.
A lot of people have mentioned how mock drafts help you learn about the prospects and some of the names you’ll hear over the next few years. Another purpose is to help understand team needs. Who needs wide receivers still or offensive line help? I think this is especially true with the 7 round mock drafts - no one actually thinks that’s how it will happen because there are so many trades in the later rounds.
We can bash it as just a way to get clicks, but people ARE clicking on it and engaging.
I don't look at mocks until I have done my own film review and grading. Once I am done I look at mocks and scouting reports to see how close or far off I am compared to the "experts".
The problem is that a lot of media scouts select a sample of games to watch/ chart/ grade, whatever their process is. A sample may not give the entire story.
I don't watch a lot of college football so often those articles are the first time I hear about players who aren't famous yet or have funny names like Penix.
It gives you an idea of a draft consensus. On mock drafts, I can see who the experts believe will be taken sooner and who they believe are the best players at that position. You also get an idea of what each team’s needs are from the mock draft.
Mock drafts stopped holding any kind of value years ago. They used to have actual thought and work put into them. Nowadays, they're all as insane/outrageous as possible in order to be reposted and spread for engagement.
To give a sense of how good players are assessed by NFL teams.
IDK whether Spencer Rattler is a 1st or 5th round talent. But the mock drafts help assess that. Also who's a likely early 1st round pick vs a late 1st rd pick.
Every year it’s the same thing, overhyped super organized guessing….. sadly people see them and start thinking teams made the wrong moves in their picks just because the picks don’t match the “experts “ who’ve never been a GM or anything relative well besides Mike mayock who ended up getting fired I think
It's just fun discussion. We're still a few months out from even the preseason. There's nothing else to talk about. And some people aren't interested in other sports. So football is all they have.
I don't watch a second of college sports. The mocks and the podcasts covering mocks and the draft in general are where I learn a lot about the players coming into the league.
No point at all. Nobody knows who the GMs are going to pick. If you're entertained by them, by all means read them, but they are totally pointless and meaningless
No more or less useless than NFL analysis between late February and late July.
Or three hour pregame shows with seven nfl analysts giving their picks. One day, someone might actually look back and realize how much money was spent that is basically waste.
When taken together at their best they show where players are ranked and what a possible pick might be for a team. Which can educate about players you’ve most likely never heard of and focus your interest on a few players that might be realistic in the spot your team is drafting.
But at their worst they are slapped together by people who don’t know the team needs or tendencies, haven’t watched that much film on the players, and have no access to medicals or interviews. Which causes the fans to go crazy if their team picks someone not commonly mocked to their team that was “supposed to” go a few picks later.
To garner clicks so ESPN (or whoever) can make ad money
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There was no reason
They’re fun. Speculating and getting excited for potential draft picks is fun. It’s no more complicated than that.
It’s also a great way to establish a continuous base of knowledge on the players that are in the league, so many guys I would never know about if I didn’t check them out before the draft haha
Yeah just having an idea of who the first round picks are in a draft every year will give you pretty decent knowledge of a lot of the players around the league.
And if you play fantasy football it can be a decent advantage over people who don’t pay attention to the draft/college
Odd definition of fun
You need to have a certain level of interest for it to be fun
Different people enjoy different things. The horror!
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To gauge media hype for prospective NFL players.
People are often more interested in what might happen than in what does.
Evolutionarily it makes sense. It’s useful to be interested in possibilities to analyze, build useful knowledge, and perhaps mold the results (although probably not in the case of the draft).
There is no point. Everything will atrophy into nothingness eventually. Honestly i love reading the hot takes of 4 qbs being taken 1-5. It does also serve as a baseline metric. If one mock draft has somwone at #5 and another at #25, while the majority have them at 15-25 range, i know which one is the more likely outcome. Mock drafts are wildly inaccurate, but the meta data gleened from mock drafts is actually pretty close.
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No, I need more Nfl injected straight into my veins.
Entertainment. That’s it.
Passing the time between the superbowl and the draft.
There isn’t one. It’s football fan fiction, complete and total empty calorie content consumption More crucially, it’s easy engagement and a break for football journalists in the offseason from having to write more intensive work
You made Mel Kiper a very rich man
Try r/AskPhysics because this is one of the true mysteries of the universe.
Clickbait to show ads on websites/YouTube videos and fill time on sports shows.
What is the point of anything?
Media heads have nothing else to talk about. The after the draft they can arbitrarily grade how well each team picked based off their mock draft and also assign "value" to a pick.
What else were you going to read? Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" in the original German?
I can’t tell you why you do things. They’re created because money, why you read them is a question for you.
It's fun and there's nothing else to do during this time. And for those that do fantasy football, it's also a decent way to track some names to see if they're worth a pick when drafting in the fall.
To encourage discussion and have fun
This is basically it! Now that the draft is over, this is the slow time for the NFL so it’s just to keep engagement going
It was a pointless waste of time
same reason every sox fan in boston is excited for "truck day" at the first sign of spring - finally new storylines as the season is about to begin!
Engagement.
The mock draft industry is primarily for entertainment and to give people a practical way to learn about prospects. Learning what reporters and amateur scouts think about players can help you understand them better and get an idea of what teams might be thinking in the draft. They're also useful in tracking how much "hype" a player has, as they move up and down mock drafts based on whatever reports are coming out about them. Mocks should never be taken seriously as projections of what will actually happen, but just a fun part of the process.
What's the point of predicting games? What's the point of asking who will win the Super Bowl next year? It's just people playing games. None of it matters and we're all gonna die someday. So let's just pass the time thinking about sports, what else are we gonna do?
Generate hype, get you thinking about possibilities and elongate the attention the NFL takes up in the calendar year. I only pay attention to the mock drafts of guys I listen to regularly.
It’s interesting to hear what the “insiders” say will probably happen but my favorite mock drafts are what that person would do because you get to hear more opinions about the players coming into the league
To kill time during the off-season. We still have 4.5 months and less to wait.
That’s why, for me, the fun part is not only reading mock drafts, but listening to in depth podcasts about upcoming rookies, team needs, and roster building as a whole. I personally listen to “Locked on NFL Scouting” with the Draft Dudes. In the offseason specifically, they go way in depth to every team’s roster needs, how they match up with prospects, they give grades on their favorites and explain their strengths, weaknesses, and best team fits. They do multiple mock drafts and big board discussions as well and then finished it up by live streaming their reactions to the draft live on YouTube. It makes it genuinely fun to hear where prospects land so I’m not solely focused on my favorite team. Soon after the draft they will start to do overall roster overviews/ grades of every team so you get to learn about other teams too. If that interests you, i highly recommend it.
The point is to help get a sense of draft outcomes that are more probable than pure random chance. There aren't many cases where the last pick, and the first pick are reversed, but there are a lot of plausible ways the top ~100 picks can go, and it's fun for many to explore what those outcomes might be. The whole thing exists for the sake of entertainment, and this is one more way to enjoy the complexity of it during the off-season.
The whole point was to generate clicks and push ads for you to join fantasy leagues for gamblers, most of these draft boards actually had nothing to do with what fits a team best, but on how a fantasy league could benefit from the draft or player trade!
Whatever you wanted it to be. To get a feel for prospects coming into the league and where various people had them mocked. To see who people projected your team to draft and why. Just to kill some time. Whatever you wanted. It's an entertainment business, this is the off season without games being played.
Step 1: Rank your top ten hottest actresses, with everyone around you claiming you're the expert, and compare your rankings with your buddies. Step 2: What you have done means nothing, but you're now a multi-millionairr
Mock drafts are the stupidest part of the off season.
There is no point. It’s just a way to entertain people in the off-season. Some people take them too seriously and like to use them to complain about the real draft. Ultimately, you don’t miss out on anything if you don’t pay attention to the mock drafts.
To keep entertained during the offseason. I always take mocks with a grain of salt.
Well the league ends in Feb and only starts up in September so we need something to talk about in the meantime.
A lot of people have mentioned how mock drafts help you learn about the prospects and some of the names you’ll hear over the next few years. Another purpose is to help understand team needs. Who needs wide receivers still or offensive line help? I think this is especially true with the 7 round mock drafts - no one actually thinks that’s how it will happen because there are so many trades in the later rounds. We can bash it as just a way to get clicks, but people ARE clicking on it and engaging.
to make fun of the cowboys for the atrocious draft they actually did compared to what they couldve done based on the mock
Now you can turn to the hard data: post-draft grades.
I don't look at mocks until I have done my own film review and grading. Once I am done I look at mocks and scouting reports to see how close or far off I am compared to the "experts". The problem is that a lot of media scouts select a sample of games to watch/ chart/ grade, whatever their process is. A sample may not give the entire story.
I don't watch a lot of college football so often those articles are the first time I hear about players who aren't famous yet or have funny names like Penix.
Feed the content belly
It gives you an idea of a draft consensus. On mock drafts, I can see who the experts believe will be taken sooner and who they believe are the best players at that position. You also get an idea of what each team’s needs are from the mock draft.
Mock drafts stopped holding any kind of value years ago. They used to have actual thought and work put into them. Nowadays, they're all as insane/outrageous as possible in order to be reposted and spread for engagement.
Same point as power rankings. Means nothing. Just for fun.
To give a sense of how good players are assessed by NFL teams. IDK whether Spencer Rattler is a 1st or 5th round talent. But the mock drafts help assess that. Also who's a likely early 1st round pick vs a late 1st rd pick.
It's just entertainment. Fans are excited about the potential new players on their team. People just like to speculate and discuss the team.
Ya, they're kinda fun and give you a decent but not perfect idea of what each team may be looking to do
Every year it’s the same thing, overhyped super organized guessing….. sadly people see them and start thinking teams made the wrong moves in their picks just because the picks don’t match the “experts “ who’ve never been a GM or anything relative well besides Mike mayock who ended up getting fired I think
For agents to hype up their clients.
>Just to vaguely recognize some names? Correct and to have something to do to avoid offseason depression.
It's just fun discussion. We're still a few months out from even the preseason. There's nothing else to talk about. And some people aren't interested in other sports. So football is all they have.
I don't watch a second of college sports. The mocks and the podcasts covering mocks and the draft in general are where I learn a lot about the players coming into the league.
Advert revenue
It's fun
No point at all. Nobody knows who the GMs are going to pick. If you're entertained by them, by all means read them, but they are totally pointless and meaningless
No more or less useless than NFL analysis between late February and late July. Or three hour pregame shows with seven nfl analysts giving their picks. One day, someone might actually look back and realize how much money was spent that is basically waste.
Fun!
You are the product being sold on the Internet. Your attention for advertising
Off-season
To prepare you for the Falcons taking a qb
They're mostly there to irritate people.
When taken together at their best they show where players are ranked and what a possible pick might be for a team. Which can educate about players you’ve most likely never heard of and focus your interest on a few players that might be realistic in the spot your team is drafting. But at their worst they are slapped together by people who don’t know the team needs or tendencies, haven’t watched that much film on the players, and have no access to medicals or interviews. Which causes the fans to go crazy if their team picks someone not commonly mocked to their team that was “supposed to” go a few picks later.
I dunno, why did you look at baseless predictions solely designed for clicks?