re: When was the last time you recall the Saints having THIS big a hole at a position group?

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I don’t disagree that decision making process is bad, but that same decision making process landed us Alvin Kamara, among others.

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2017 was an outlier and was 7 years ago

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I don’t know what the “optimal” strategy is. Probably mostly luck.

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This is why you accumulate as many picks as possible.

You know how to increase your "luck"? Increase your number of lottery tickets/bets.

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Bottom line, hitting on the player is what matters most.

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No team "hits on players" regularly. That's the problem.

There is a rate (not sure what it is, but I'm sure it can be found) for successful draft picks. Let's just say it's 33%. If you have 6 picks on average, you'll get 2 hits every year. If you have 3 picks on average, you'll get 1 hit every year.