Mock draft

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Mock draft is a term used by sports websites and magazines in reference to a simulation of a sports league draft or fantasy sports league's draft. ESPN has run mock drafts on the front page of its website, allowing any visitor to vote towards a specific team's choice. Mock drafts are often found to be helpful to fans because they allow them to speculate on which members of the collegiate ranks will join the fan's favorite team. There are many Internet and television analysts that are considered experts in this field and can give the fans some understanding of where players are expected to go in drafts. Although mock drafts are created for nearly every sport that uses drafts, they are most commonplace for the National Football League. Analysts Mel Kiper Jr., Todd McShay, and Mike Mayock have been considered "experts" on the NFL Draft. Apart from experts, fans also create mock draft with the help of simulators, majorly in NFL and NBA. Using simulators, user behaves like a GM of their team as they can draft players as per actual draft order and the sim/machine chooses players for remaining teams based on an algo that considers factors like team needs, prospect rankings etc. Mock drafts, however, do not replicate the real methodology that teams' general managers used to choose players.…

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