MC_Hammer wrote:
If you manually set the draft beforehand, then what do you use the weights for?
This is probably the most ridiculous question ever. But, sure, I'll answer it.
1) Players are sorted in the left column of the war room using your weights. That means that the best players USING YOUR WEIGHTS are filtered to the top while the worst players are filtered to the bottom. This allows for you to more quickly move players onto your draft board.
2) When you use your own weights, you can very quickly see how much you are going to value a player whether or not it's the draft, FA, during a trade, etc., without having to dig into the player that much. Just because the trade balancer says that it's perfectly reasonable to trade a 2nd round pick for a player that you have as a 48, you might want to think twice before doing it. That is unless you're being offered that 2nd round pick and then you just hit accept and move on with your day.