Mr Baseball World wrote:Looks to me as though it isn’t even how often they are drafted. The data looks at the final roster or final stats. So it tells you how often they were used. It doesn’t tell you who was on an autodraft card much less what order. Someone could have missed all 25 guys on their draft card. They could have dropped multiple players between the draft and the start of the season.
Exactly so, that is a more precise way of putting it. Not frequency of being drafted, but rather frequency of being on a roster after the freeze. But, no reason to think those two things aren't highly correlated, when thinking in terms of a card's popularity.
The larger point to keep in mind for the paranoiacs is that the manager who rosters the player is not even logged, that is not something I ever tracked. All the database tells us is that a player was rostered x % of the time, not who rostered him.