Average Gain from Big FA Spending Sprees? 0 Wins

[UNCrules2187]

Do NFL teams improve after signing top free agents?

 

Not as much as fans might hope. Looking across all the teams that picked up a top-five free agent over the last decade, it turns out that those teams didn’t get any better. On average, they ended up winning almost exactly the same number of games.

 

If you include all top-ten free agents, there’s a little upward blip, amounting to something like .1 additional wins, but again that is basically nothing. Even if you look across two years, on the assumption that perhaps it takes some time for new players to have their biggest impact, there are no real gains.

 

 

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/03/16/nfl-teams-improve-after-signing-top-free-agents/HVtLsCoK0CkbHfCgJCgqcI/story.html

[Mr. Scot]

The teams that do this tend to be the ones that are poorly run, so probably no surprise.

[PandaPancake]

The teams that do this tend to be the ones that are poorly run, so probably no surprise.

Look, this is the last warning. Anymore facts and you're gone

[GoobyPls]

Patriots - Browner, Revis, Amendola, Blount

Seahawks - Avril, Bennett, Harvin, Lynch

Ravens - Boldin, Jones, McKinney, Pollard

 

SB winning teams seem to spend on free agency.

[csx]

Patriots - Browner, Revis, Amendola, Blount

Seahawks - Avril, Bennett, Harvin, Lynch

Ravens - Boldin, Jones, McKinney, Pollard

SB winning teams seem to spend on free agency.

Are you a new person who doesnt read and grasp the article or just somebody with a new name? Whatever the case, you do not seem to grasp the intent.

[Kevin Greene]

What a crock of shyt that article is. All Opinion with very little actual numbers to back it up.

Compares signing the current preeminent NFL QB Peyton Manning at 18 million dollars per year to a washed up Ed Reed at 5 million per year.

What a joke.

 

 

 

Absolutely. After acquiring Peyton Manning, the Broncos went from 8-8 to 13-3. And one reason the 2010 Bears reached the conference championship was because they had picked up Julius Peppers.

Having said that, there are also some striking counter-examples. In 2013, the Texans signed Ed Reed to a three-year, $15 million contract, after which they only won two games.

 

[Kevin Greene]

Oh look, the Patriots had signed Derrille Revis for 12 million per year and went 12-4 (and won a Lombardi) just like the year before.

See?

No difference!111!1!11!!1!!

[jasonluckydog]

Jake Delhomme was a sought after FA that took the Panthers to the SB.

[GoobyPls]

Are you a new person who doesnt read and grasp the article or just somebody with a new name? Whatever the case, you do not seem to grasp the intent.

 

What is there to grasp?

 

Bad teams do overpay for free agents like the raiders and redskins.  That doesn't mean SB winning teams don't spend in free agency

 

Let me guess your one of those lets build strictly through the draft guys?

 

[ooglechi]

What is there to grasp?

Bad teams do overpay for free agents like the raiders and redskins. That doesn't mean SB winning teams don't spend in free agency

Let me guess your one of those lets build strictly through the draft guys?

The Packers did it. In fact, the only player on their roster that wasn't drafted by them is Julius Peppers.

[Kevin Greene]

The Packers did it. In fact, the only player on their roster that wasn't drafted by them is Julius Peppers.

 

 

Damn, I always thought Al Davis drafted Charles Woodson.

[ooglechi]

Damn, I always thought Al Davis drafted Charles Woodson.

I meant currently.

[TheNewStandard]

we went 12-4 after signing Ginn and Mitchell

but that isn't exactly what you would call a spree

[Kevin Greene]

I meant currently.

 

Currently the Packers haven't won the Super Bowl since 2010.