ZWK
Footballguy
My formula would just count him as 210. I might lower his value a bit in my subjective rankings because of it.If he weighed in at 210 but you know he gained the weight heading into the combine would your formula be able to account for this? i.e., you don't know how he performs on the field at that weight so does he get credit for the 210 weight even though his numbers were accumulated at the lower weight?
3 issues that make it tricky to downgrade players in situations like this: First, we don't have many good sources of info on players' weights. It's hard for us to know if a player measures 210 if that means that he played at 210, or if he played at 200 then put on 10 pounds for the combine and then is going to lose those 10 pounds before the season, or if he played at 200 and has now bulked up to 210 and will stay there. Second, using combine weights is a level playing field. Low weight is a negative for RBs, so probably lots of undersized RBs look to add a little weight before the combine. It's easy to compare RBs based on the weight that they ended up at for their combine weighin; it's hard to try to adjust every single RB back to their "true" weight to make them all comparable. Third, bulking up for the combine will tend to hurt a RB's numbers in the other drills (40, jumps, agility drills), which will bring his overall rating back down. If he manages to put up good numbers in the other drills, that's a sign that he can play well at the heavier weight.