Live Draft Trivia #1

[Moriarity]

Most likely whatever position The Don of Som drafts most frequently.

[Proverbial Psalms]

[quote:5b68311830="River Field View"]In ATG4, the best spots were 7-12[/quote:5b68311830]

In the words of Inspector Clouseau... "Not Anymore"

In ATG6 the 7-12 spots collectively have UNDER .500 win-loss percentage

[Proverbial Psalms]

[quote:dc86d26a5b="Moriarity"]Most likely whatever position The Don of Som drafts most frequently.[/quote:dc86d26a5b]
Don is truly the king... 8-)

Live drafts have been considered the great equalizer as competition is aggressive and "draft card shenevigans" are elimiated from the arsenal.

Don has defied the trend... live draft data shows a number of vets with amazing aggregate ATG performance dropping win-loss percentage dramatically in the hyper-competitive live drafts... yet Don FESQ has amassed a totally impressive .551 winning percentage in the 56 ATG6 live drafts in which he has participated. Now that's smack.

Don has a .558 win percentage when drafting #1 (***), a .559 winning percentage when drafting #2 (***), and a .572 win pct when drafting #11 (***). Obviously it does not matter where DonFESQ drafts, you have to be ready for his draft strength no matter where the 1-12 randomness ends up :oops:

[Proverbial Psalms]

Live Drafts Positions with Best Team Won-Loss Pct

Pick #2 ---- .514
Pick #10 --- .510
Pick #12 --- .505

Live Drafts Positions with Worst Team Won-Loss Pct

Pick #9 --- .491
Pick #7 --- .492
Pick #3 --- .494

[216 Stitches]

[quote:2924764a9e="wjanssen"]
In the words of Inspector Clouseau... "Not Anymore"

In ATG6 the 7-12 spots collectively have UNDER .500 win-loss percentage[/quote:2924764a9e]

Thanks for posting the statistics. Its more that I would have thought,
but even the .514 stretches the definition of significant. That's
a season average of 83.3-78.7 in the most extreme case. And 8 of the
a third or less extreme.

I guess you can decide for yourself if that is significant or not, but
I see that as pretty close to neutral, or you can not significantly
help or hurt yourself in any one position. The Don stats also
suggests he has no problem being successful at any position (again,
thanks for posting that -- although Don might have a different view
of that).

Anyway, once the picks start coming in, many drafts will start deviating
from average very quickly.

[nevdully's]

Bill do you know what my cumulative live draft winning pct is?

Btw I know I've been poor in VI and would guess I stink in the middle position of the drafts....Wouldn't be the first or second time I'm wrong though.

[The Last Druid]

Of 55 completed live draft leagues in ATG that I have participated in, my winning pct is .5327. Just slightly above my currently pitiful .532 winning pct overall at atg6.

I've pretty much stopped doing live drafts. The truncated pool gets boring after a while. And I'm certainly not a fan of average pick lists which tend to further decrease any advantage derived from paying to play more seasons.

Just my 2 cents. I never really thought about it before, but when did the cent symbol disappear from keyboards? I'm guessing when typewriters became obsolete?!

BTW It would appear that I buck the trend, not Don. Don goes from .554 overall to .551 at live drafts, which is certainly in the same direction as the trend Bill cited.