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The problem is not the program creation, but the data that would be used.
A mock is only as good as the data used. All of you know from the mocks that you have done you need -
1. A really good evaluation of each NFL team. You must have team rosters and needs and past tendencies for the draft. Players contracts and team cap have to be considered in this.
2. A complete evaluation of each player and a ranking for each player. This could be abbreviated if you only did 1st round mock, but a good one would be top to bottom with all players in the draft.
I've tried getting the rankings by blending lists from several different sources. You have to evaluate and maybe throw out the outliers that are so far out of skew with all of the other evaluations.
Also, you have to be careful with some evaluations that they are not just copying what they see from others. That can skew the data and the evaluation scale.
I am pretty sure that NFL organizations try to create their own mock drafts with the data that they are able to gather. It would be interesting to see what they do.
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