As we dive deeper into the draft from 2012-2014, it becomes obvious that no matter how players are evaluated, accurate evaluation and team environment have at least as much to do with success than draft philosophy.
For the last two weeks, I've been looking at three years of draft prospects in order to get a handle on the debate over which approach to the draft makes the most sense--drafting a player based on need or drafting a player based on their relative talent or value (i.e. the best player available). As most of us have known from the beginning, this is a sort of false dichotomy.