{"id":614,"date":"2019-04-11T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/?p=614"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:29:24","slug":"how-the-nfl-draft-order-is-decided-a-quick-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/how-the-nfl-draft-order-is-decided-a-quick-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How The NFL Draft Order Is Decided – A Quick Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many US sports, there is a formulated method of deciding who gets to pick the best players. Unlike the NBA who runs a slightly complex lottery draw (to stop rebuilding teams from deliberately losing late-season games to get the top pick), the pecking order is based purely on results, which is easier with a 16 game season. It works pretty well and most years several new teams will be in the playoffs compared to the season before.\u00a0 Anyway, this is how it’s currently decided<\/p>\n

The NFL Draft Order Determinants<\/h2>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teams who don’t make the playoffs get picks 1-20 with the team with the worst record picking first overall and so on.<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The teams who lose in the Wild Card round get picks 21-24. The loser with the worst record gets to pick 21 and the strongest 24. Identical Win\/Loss records are sored by tiebreaks – see below.<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teams eliminated in the Divisional round get picks 25-28 – same basis<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Teams eliminated in the Conference Championships get picks 29-30 again same basis<\/p>\n

5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Super Bowl runner up gets pick 31<\/p>\n

6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Super Bowl winner gets to pick 32nd<\/p>\n

Tie Breakers<\/h2>\n
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  1. Strength of Schedule win\/loss ration of opponents<\/li>\n
  2. Division tiebreakers who finished best in the division<\/li>\n
  3. Conference tiebreakers who had the best record in conference games<\/li>\n
  4. Coin flip – heads or tails.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This applies to all seven rounds of the draft.<\/p>\n

    Compensatory Picks<\/h2>\n

    To ensure fairness and as compensation for losses in Free Agency, a number of picks are awarded in rounds 3-7 each year. This is based on a complex formula which encompasses salary, playing time and postseason honours. In 2019, 32 have been awarded including 7 in round three.<\/p>\n

    Image credit Editorial credit:\u00a0Debby Wong\u00a0\/\u00a0Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n

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    Like many US sports, there is a formulated method of deciding who gets to pick the best players. Unlike the NBA who runs a slightly complex lottery draw (to stop rebuilding teams from deliberately losing late-season games to get the top pick), the pecking order is based purely on results, which is easier with a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-quick-guides","tag-nfl-draft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}