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Is there any way to see the actual round by round draft results?

I copied this to the General Strategy Forum.

Palmtana wrote:I copied this to the General Strategy Forum.

Lack of sleep question - Did you copy this topic to this forum? Or did you copy the answer to the question some where here in the General Strategy forum?

He just copied your question. However, here is the answer you seek: no!

(I am assuming you're referring to a standard autodraft.)

These links used to work but apparently no longer.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/index.php/team/draft/

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/index.php/team/draft/rank

The auto draft doesn't post "round by round" it executes all player decisions semi-simultaneously.

There is a very good and detailed write-up of how the autodraft works on the draft page when creating a new team, but basically it works like this:

All players are ranked 1-24 by all drafters. The first "round" of the draft, everyone who was only on 1 draft card gets assigned to that team. "Round 2" if a player is selected by multiple teams, he is assigned to the team that ranked him highest. If two or more teams ranked that player in the same spot, that player is randomly assigned to one of those teams. If you miss a player because someone else ranked him higher, or you lost the random draw, then you get the next highest priced player at the primary position of the player you missed.

Example:

Team 1

1. Ruth 8.29 SP
2. Gehrig 12.68 1B
3. Duffy 11.80 CF
4. Cobb 11.02 CF
5. Berra 3.04 C

Team 2

1. Ruth 17.27 RF
2. Maddux 12.92 SP
3. Duffy 1.70 CF
4. Foxx 10.42 1B
5. Gagne 4.39 RP

Team 3

1. Bonds 16.43 LF
2. Ruth 8.29 SP
3. Gehrig 10.95 1B
4. Duffy 11.80 CF
5. Maddux 7.35 SP

On the first time through, all the unique players are assigned, in bold below:

Team 1

1. Ruth 8.29 SP
2. Gehrig 12.68 1B
3. Duffy 11.80 CF
4. Cobb 11.02 CF
5. Berra 3.04 C

Team 2

1. Ruth 17.27 RF
2. Maddux 12.92 SP
3. Duffy 1.70 CF
4. Foxx 10.42 1B
5. Gagne 4.39 RP

Team 3

1. Bonds 16.43 LF
2. Ruth 8.29 SP
3. Gehrig 10.95 1B
4. Duffy 11.80 CF
5. Maddux 7.35 SP

There are conflicts on Ruth, Gehrig, Duffy, and Maddux.

Ruth was listed first by both team 1 and team 2, but second by team 3. Team 1 Gets Ruth by random chance. Team 2 gets the next highest priced RF that no one listed on their draft card (maybe Betts or Walker, for instance). Team 3 gets the next highest priced SP that no one listed on the draft card (which is how Mark Fidrich gets drafted).

Gehrig was listed second by team 1 and third by team 3. He goes to team one also. Team 3 gets the next highest priced 1B available (maybe Pujols?).

Maddux was listed second by team 2 and fifth by team 3. He goes to team 2. Team 3 gets a replacement next highest SP. In this case, Bert Blyleven.

Duffy was listed second by both team 1 and team 2 and third by team 3. The random assignment gives him to team 2. Team 1 gets the next highest priced CF not drafted (primary positions only, so it skips Betts, Walker, and Aaron, and assigns Trout at 10.81). Team 3 gets Turkey Stearnes at 10.64M as his replacement.

Final Results:

Team 1

1. Ruth 8.29 SP
2. Gehrig 12.68 1B
3. Duffy 11.80 CF >>> Trout CF 10.81
4. Cobb 11.02 CF
5. Berra 3.04 C

Team 2

1. Ruth 17.27 RF >>> Betts RF 11.41
2. Maddux 12.92 SP
3. Duffy 1.70 CF
4. Foxx 10.42 1B
5. Gagne 4.39 RP

Team 3

1. Bonds 16.43 LF
2. Ruth 8.29 SP >>> Fydrich SP 8.29
3. Gehrig 10.95 1B >>> Pujols 1B 10.54
4. Duffy 11.80 CF >>> Stearnes CF 10.64
5. Maddux 7.35 SP >>> Bert Blyleven SP 7.35

For waivers, Team 3 only got 1 player on their initial example list, so they are picking 1st in waivers. Both teams 1 and 2 got 4 of the 5 players that they wanted, but team 2 missed on a higher ranked player (Ruth at first), so they get waiver priority. Waivers goes team 3, team 2, team 1.

And there it is.

Just one addition to Hamilton's fine post:

It's not just the number of players a team missed out on when considering their waiver priority. Missing out on higher picks carries a lot more weight than lower picks.