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Chad Ford: Retroactively Editing his Draft Boards

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I predict that ESPN, if they say anything, will say they were hacked...

As a reminder to you all, I am 100% on record for drafting Hassan Whiteside in 2010 with the Cavs 30th pick. Very upset when they traded that pick. You can look it up unless the threads didn't get transferred from vBulletin for some reason.
oh ya, i wanted them to take a flier on him too! forgot about that. of course he still bounced around a dozen teams and played in like four different countries since then so...

"After reviewing the post on Reddit today, we have found that changes were made manually to Chad Ford’s NBA Draft prospects rankings. We have not been able to determine who made the changes, or when. We have talked to Chad Ford, who strongly denies any involvement, and based on his past work and professionalism, we believe him. Our review will continue but it is unclear at this time if we will be able to ascertain who was responsible."

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-r...es-to-chad-fords-nba-draft-prospect-rankings/
espn still a joke. lol @ "not being able to determine who did it" and lol @ thinking anyone except ford would have a reason to do it in the first place. i'm sure some intern was just dying to get a job there so he could edit years of draft projections over a long period of time!
 
So rank the ESPN staff embarrassments:

In no particular order:

Chad Ford doctors his past mock drafts; Dana Jacobsen says "fuck Jesus" while drunk; Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti domestic violence charges; Tim Hardaway wouldn't want a gay teammate, Sean Salisbury shows dick pics at a bar; Erin Andrews peephole nude shots.
 
So rank the ESPN staff embarrassments:

In no particular order:

Chad Ford doctors his past mock drafts; Dana Jacobsen says "fuck Jesus" while drunk; Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti domestic violence charges; Tim Hardaway wouldn't want a gay teammate, Sean Salisbury shows dick pics at a bar; Erin Andrews peephole nude shots.

You forgot Hollinger who would adjust his draft regression analysis every year based on previous draftees' performances, and take credit retroactively for getting the drafts of previous years "right."
 
"After reviewing the post on Reddit today, we have found that changes were made manually to Chad Ford’s NBA Draft prospects rankings. We have not been able to determine who made the changes, or when. We have talked to Chad Ford, who strongly denies any involvement, and based on his past work and professionalism, we believe him. Our review will continue but it is unclear at this time if we will be able to ascertain who was responsible."

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-r...es-to-chad-fords-nba-draft-prospect-rankings/

So basically ESPN is telling us subtly that he is too dumb to know how to edit his posts. I think that is believable.
 
So rank the ESPN staff embarrassments:

In no particular order:

Chad Ford doctors his past mock drafts; Dana Jacobsen says "fuck Jesus" while drunk; Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti domestic violence charges; Tim Hardaway wouldn't want a gay teammate, Sean Salisbury shows dick pics at a bar; Erin Andrews peephole nude shots.

Kind of not fair to say this is an embarrassment.
 
Kind of not fair to say this is an embarrassment.

Assuming she was actually victimized. I remember a lot of talk when it first came out about it being a possible PR stunt.
 
They're seriously going to claim they can't tell WHEN it happened? I have to imagine that's something they could go back and figure out.

They gave up on the investigation pretty quick, huh?
 
I am shocked he got caught, I didn't know anyone still paid attention to Chad Ford.
 
Cant believe people actually care about mock drafts and taking it way too seriously
 
They're seriously going to claim they can't tell WHEN it happened? I have to imagine that's something they could go back and figure out.

They gave up on the investigation pretty quick, huh?

They absolutely could and any excuse they claim otherwise is bullshit. You know for a fact they can see when it was edited, who edited it, etc. Completely ridiculous to think that in 2015 people would still believe that the internet is some magically anonymous place. FFS.

If it was done internally at the ESPN offices, they'd be able to pinpoint it down to the computer that submitted the changes. If it was done by someone outside, they'd be able to see who had logged onto the VPN to commit changes.
 
Given that Ford supposedly bases his rankings on projections from actual teams/executives, I really don't understand what he'd stand to gain by editing his mocks to begin with. They really just showcase how the draft is a crapshoot, and that even teams with dedicated scouting departments get things wrong more than they get them right.
 
So rank the ESPN staff embarrassments:

In no particular order:

Chad Ford doctors his past mock drafts; Dana Jacobsen says "fuck Jesus" while drunk; Woody Paige and Jay Mariotti domestic violence charges; Tim Hardaway wouldn't want a gay teammate, Sean Salisbury shows dick pics at a bar; Erin Andrews peephole nude shots.

your missing one...


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