NFL draft value chart

With the NFL draft weekend coming up, I thought this may be of interest to some. Bill Belichick referred to it here, in speaking about how teams model relative pick values and trade them.

The left column for each round is the pick number; the right column the number of points. It shows that, for instance, the first pick of the first round is worth about 5 times as much as the first pick of the second round.

Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Round 4		Round 5		Round 6		Round 7
1	3,000	33	580	65	265	97	112	129	43	161	27	193	14.2
2	2,600	34	560	66	260	98	108	130	42	162	26.6	194	13.8
3	2,200	35	550	67	255	99	104	131	41	163	26.2	195	13.4

UPDATE: Stephen Dubner just posted on how the top NFL draft pick is overvalued. I think that is a bit imprecise. I would counter that it's the rookie pay scale, especially for the first 10 or 15 picks in the draft.