By Brian Moore
May 2, 2009

One common occurence on the web is a site that specializes in coverring the NFL draft by creating a mock draft for their readers to enjoy.

A mock draft is simply a simulated draft of when each player will be selected by each team.

Football fans visit numerous draft sites to see just who each site has planned for their team to select in their mock draft. There's hundreds if not thousands of these mock drafts.

The best nfl draft sites do extensive research on players, coaches and teams and are full of great information.

After reading enough of these mock drafts, many football fans begin to expect their teams to take those exact players.

If they pick another player it leads to an emotional reaction: happiness that they were able to take a player that supposedly should have been selected earlier or unhappiness that they didn't take the player almost assigned to them by these mock drafts.

The irony of it all is that despite the very best research and very best scenarios played out, the mock drafts are grossly inaccurate. Of the mock drafts I re-surveyed after the draft, Mike Mayock had the top mock draft getting 10 of 32 correct. A few, including Michael Lombardi of Natonal Football Post, had eight correct.

Eight of 32 is second best and yet that's only 25% accurate or three out of every four wrong. On the surface, that's horrible.

That's the irony of it all. Fans frequent the so called best sites for the so called most accurate info so that they know who their team will take, when low and behold none of them are very good at it.

This routine has been going on for decades, will continue for a long time and many football fans wouldn't change a thing. Draft day for many fans is more about having fun than being right. That's but one reason why the day is so enjoyable to so many fans