Who is the media's Top Gun in the high stakes player evaluation business?
The NFL Draft is a game with some of the highest stakes in all of professional sports, and it's the ultimate market experiment. In the simplest terms "commodities" (the right to employ talented football players) are available for "sale" and teams pay (using draft choices) to obtain them. This means the value of a player (in terms of the NFL Draft) is set by what teams are willing to spend to "buy" the rights to any given player. The market price is ultimately determined by the buyers (NFL teams).