Live Draft Trivia #3... Misc

[Proverbial Psalms]

With 300 players drafted per league in live drafts, here are some factoids:

189 players were drafted in 100% of live drafts... all the expected ones

63 Players weree drafted in ONLY 1 (of 72) live drafts... including Bret Saberhagen who was drafted in the 9th round in his only darft!

[Proverbial Psalms]

Poor Roger Connor... drafted in only 39 live drafts

Then there is high-priced reliever Jeff Reardon who despite saving many many games in real-life has been relegated to the live draft back burner... having been selected in only half (36) of the the ATG6 live drafts

[AeroDave10]

I have plenty of factoids to present from my slightly bigger database (78 drafts):

*29 different players have been drafted in the 1st round

*Only 5 players (Bonds, Ruth, Gibson, Mantle, Hornsby) were always drafted in the 1st round

*188 players taken in 100% of the drafts

*525 players drafted at least once

*Among the top 75 players (ranked by average draft position), the player with the highest standard deviation in draft position is Cesar Cedeno, making him the most difficult high-ranking player to predict. His draft position was 76.46±26.61. The next closest in standard deviation was more than less (Roger Maris @ 70.79±16.15).

*Among all players drafted in 100% of drafts, Rico Petrocelli had the highest standard deviation. He was drafted 200.99±50.64.

*Only one player in the Top 50 (ranked by average draft position) was ever drafted lower than 100 (111).

[The Last Druid]

You can pretty much tell who knows what they are doing with live drafts by where they draft --or don't draft -- Cedeno. Guys who are largely clueless seem to draft him as though his pricing is accurate. It's not.