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Average Gain from Big FA Spending Sprees? 0 Wins

UNCrules2187

By UNCrules2187,
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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

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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.

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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.

 

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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?

 

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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.
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