The people we cite.
Draftanomics doesn't watch film — we cite the people who do, and we build on open data maintained by people who share it freely. This page names all of them. If your work appears here and the attribution can be better, tell us and we'll fix it.
Scouting outlets we cite.
Film claims in our written reports must cite a named scout — these are the outlets those citations point to.
Per-prospect scouting profiles. Film observations from Walter's writeups appear in our reports as cited, footnoted claims.
Draft profiles and grades. Cited by scout name wherever their observations inform a report.
Rankings and positional analysis, folded into the consensus picture with attribution.
Scouting reports and big boards. Their analysts' observations are cited by name in our written reports.
Independent board work that sharpens the consensus signal; credited wherever it's used.
Aggregated rankings that feed the consensus spine, attributed on the boards that use them.
The aggregation spine.
The community's best index of public analyst boards, and the spine of our consensus ingestion — we discover and ingest public big boards via their index. Draftanomics's consensus signal simply wouldn't exist at this depth without their sustained curation work. Our consensus aggregation follows Arif Hasan's Consensus Big Board methodology.
Data foundations.
The open datasets every model, backtest and dossier is built from.
The open NFL data ecosystem — draft results, career outcomes, contracts. The backbone of every backtest on this site.
College production, recruiting composites and program context — the pre-draft half of every prospect's statistical record.
Prospect headshots, served from ESPN's public CDN and used solely to identify players.
Relative Athletic Scores, the athletic-testing framework our models decompose into size, speed, explosion and agility features.
Career Approximate Value and historical records, used to ground-truth what actually happened after draft night.