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Pros vs Joes Draft Analysis

I wanted to do some kind of analysis for this draft but since everyone has a different opinion on the value of players at this point in the draft, I wanted to do something different but useful.

I decided to take the average draft position of the 261 players that were drafted in all 8 leagues and see which team had the best value for their picks. If you picked a player later than their average draft position from all 8 leagues, you got good value and if you picked him earlier then you got bad value.

There was a lot of math involved which isn't worth explaining but to give you an example, picking a player in the 3rd round, 6 spots before his average draft position was worth about the same as picking a player 24 spots before his average draft position in the 15th round. I made sure that there were almost as many good value picks in later rounds than in early rounds.

All the picks were given a score based on which category they fell in:
Great value: 3 pts
Good value: 2 pts
Average value: 1 pt
Mediocre value: 0 pts
Bad value: -1 pt
Undrafted in any league: -1 pt

You will notice that it is pretty clear the Joes did a better job at drafting. We'll find out at the end of the year who drafted the better players but this gives an idea of who got the most value out of their picks.

Here is the comparison between Pros and Joes:

Here are the rankings from most competitive to least competitive league:
(Lower score means all teams are around the overall average hence there were few bad picks)

Here are the top scores from each league:

Here are the overall scores: