Perception of Players- Is it distorted by their relative Draft position?

[LostDoggy]

Re: Perception of Players- Is it distorted by their relative Draft position?

Some clubs seem to actually encourage the hyping of their high draft picks -- Carlton, especially, come to mind, but that could simply be due to the shallowness of their list (thus ensuring that high draft picks are immediate first-team selections). I mean, we keep hearing about Gibbs and Murphy and Kreuzer as if they were already seasoned superstars instead of unproven kids who have yet to fire a shot in their respective senior careers.

[hujsh]

Re: Perception of Players- Is it distorted by their relative Draft position?

Some clubs seem to actually encourage the hyping of their high draft picks -- Carlton, especially, come to mind, but that could simply be due to the shallowness of their list (thus ensuring that high draft picks are immediate first-team selections). I mean, we keep hearing about Gibbs and Murphy and Kreuzer as if they were already seasoned superstars instead of unproven kids who have yet to fire a shot in their respective senior careers.

Murphy would be hyped without the No.1 pick over his head anyway. He has been the most impressive of them so far.

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: Perception of Players- Is it distorted by their relative Draft position?

If we focus on our list then we see a couple of interesting examples of high draft picks

Cooney does not suffer at the hands of our supporters but does with supporters around the league. I know many friends who think Cooney has been disappointing, where I think his game has continued to develop nicely and that he has a huge impact on many games, but that his constant tagging has been a challenging transition.

Ray is the other who many of our supporters judge harshly and probably wouldn't as much if he hadn't been a high pick. I think Ray is a mature enough kid to eventually deal with this and just get on and be a pretty good player. He's also mature enough and posessing a Daniel Cross like work ethic that gives me confidence he'll become a good contributor

Aside from those two I dont think our high draft pick players suffer too much from this - everyone can see why Griffen, Williams, Higgins, Everitt etc were selected and that they are clearly super talented.