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Originally Posted by allen_kcCard
I guess this is part of what I am struggling with. Played in a given year according to what? Is seems silly, but for some of these guys it is hard as hell to figure out what they play on a given year. Ranking will lump DTs and NTs up together, the pro football reference links for a play might say they are lde/dt or blank, or something else. I had one player that was listed as DE in his potion, but the pro footabll reference showed him as a SAM.
I get what you are saying, but I don't want to get 95% out of two players just because I thought one was considered a NT and the other a DE3 and for whatever reason they were the other way around. Is there something of a creed we can follow to say what position a player is really considered to be?
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We'll provide that information, note that it would be helpful to provide it as early as possible for drafting and free agency.
We're in a weird catch-up year this year, but as I think about it, going forward we won't know until after the draft and free agency, either.
The calendar will be something like this.
End the previous Sandbox season in March or thereabouts.
Draft rookies in May (or after the NFL draft, whenever it is).
Sign free agents throughout the NFL season, at which point players may be moving around in terms of position.
At the end of the NFL season, we build our databases and feed it into the model, at which point we know the stated position of each player - but that's after everyone has built out their team.