re: Mel Kiper Jr. Gives Top Draft Grade to... the Browns

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And he didn’t just make a prediction, he loudly promoted that shite all throughout the draft

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Good. Let me tell you what that means. It means he's his own man, and he makes his own evaluations. Contrast that with Field Yates, the Gavin Newsom of NFL draft coverage. He backpedaled off his projection (1st Round) immediately. That shows you he's not his own man. He does not have confidence in his own evaluations. He's probably just putting together projections based on the consensus of others.
Is it your belief that Mel should've done what Field did?
Where are the threads on Field? Not very interesting, huh? But evidently Mel caught the attention of many.

And on that unfactual number you posted, one thing we do know is that whatever the real hit rate is, it's a whole lot better than the hit rate for the Colorado/Shedeur haters of the MSB.

Here's a better explanation. People with a hivemind mentality, who also love to hate the Sanders family, have problems discerning real authenticity. And because Mel was one of the most vocal proponents of Shedeur, the love-to-hate feelings got directed at Mel.
You guys need to give it a rest with looking for a conspiracy around every corner of media. Internet conspiracies used to be a lot more interesting.

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You "believe"? Where'd the number come from, rascal? Did you copy it or fabricate it?

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Kiper has received sustained criticism for the low accuracy of his predictions. According to Cold Hard Football Facts, Kiper's accuracy for the first round of the 2005–2008 NFL drafts was 32 of 127 total picks (25.2%), which included players that had already signed or were in the process of signing with a team before the draft.[15][16] According to The Huddle Report in 2014, based on Kiper's final mock drafts, he had accurately predicted 23% of the first round picks in the previous five years.[9] Kiper's initial drafts were even lower, correctly predicting 17 out of 256 from 2010–2018.[4] In 2021, FantasyPros ranked Kiper's final mock draft 87th of 182 and Grading the Experts ranked his draft 32nd of 38.[17] In 2023, Kiper correctly predicted only one of the 31 draftees in the first round despite updating his analysis on the morning of the NFL draft after gathering additional information.

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ETA: I did say “or lower”
You fricking shill.

Sheduer and Mel suck

The next link is from a 2018 article.
They cite numbers from The Huddle Report. And again, same flawed methodology. This one says it's from a 5-year window.

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In the past five years, based on The Huddle Report data, Kiper has accurately predicted a team’s first-round pick 23 percent of the time; accurately predicted which players will be picked in the first round, regardless of team, 85 percent of the time; and accurately predicted which players will be picked among the top 100, regardless of team, 78 percent of the time.

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You didn't say "or higher", did you?
The 85% and 78% numbers are arguably more relevant.

The last sentence is referring only to the bad methodology, only for the 1st Round in 2023.

Mel Kiper

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The whole thing was so unprofessional and over the top ridiculous.

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It was tough watching an already weirdly theatrical NFL draft but to hear him drone on about Sanders when other picks were going on was very annoying.