Weekly Draft: Einstein Observations. Discussions Go Here.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yahoo requires you say "Add this player" multiple times for some reason.

[OzzyKP]

Oh, I guess he was a free agent then. I went and added him at least three times. I thought it went through and would show up today.

[EPW]

I am dominating as expected

[OzzyKP]

Time for another "Ozzy is procrastinating at work so spent too much time creating Fantasy Baseball statistics" post.

I did a comparison between the order we drafted players and the order they are ranked on Yahoo based on this season's stats so far. Higher numbers are better.

Per team:

1. Snoop -3155
2. Ozzy -4731
3. Berz -5082
4. Fistand -5210
5. Stuie -5270
6. Jdd -5741
7. Guy -6203
8. Sloww -6358
9. EmpFab -6483
10. Capy -6629
11. Imran -6952
12. EPW -7457

I'm actually surprised I've done this well. Obviously this is based solely on the draft, so the reason I'm doing so poorly in the actual rankings is either because of poor pick-ups once the season started, bad luck, or my great habit of benching players when they have a great week and starting players that have an off week.

The top 50 players (as in, the players drafted lowest who are having the best seasons so far):

1. 187 Jdd Adam Lind
2. 180 Fistand Mark Reynolds
3. 177 Sloww Marco Scutaro
4. 162 Capy Rickie Weeks
5. 158 EPW Denard Span
6. 156 Fistand Johnny Cueto
7. 155 Jdd Ryan Zimmerman
8. 154 Berz Paul Konerko
9. 154 Jdd Shin Soo Choo
10. 153 EmpFab Justin Upton
11. 147 Jdd Jered Weaver
12. 144 EmpFab Heath Bell
13. 141 Ozzy Frank Francisco
14. 140 Guy Mark Buehrle
15. 118 Guy Jayson Werth
16. 114 Ozzy Tony Pena
17. 113 EmpFab Nick Swisher
18. 110 Berz Mike Lowell
19. 110 Ozzy Vernon Wells
20. 107 Ozzy Robinson Cano
21. 103 Sloww Mike Gonzalez
22. 101 Capy Zack Greinke
23. 101 Guy Trevor Hoffman
24. 101 Snoop Jonathon Broxton
25. 97 Stuie Hank Blalock
26. 91 Berz Raul Ibanez
27. 90 Berz Chad Qualls
28. 90 Snoop Torii Hunter
29. 90 Snoop Chris Volstad
30. 89 Capy Jay Bruce
31. 89 Snoop Hunter Pence
32. 88 Imran Eric Bedard
33. 84 Snoop Ryan Theriot
34. 82 Berz Chris Carpenter
35. 80 Ozzy Justin Verlander
36. 77 Jdd Brad Hawpe
37. 75 Stuie Joe Saunders
38. 74 Sloww Willy Taveras
39. 70 Stuie Johnny Damon
40. 68 Capy J.P. Howell
41. 66 Jdd Josh Johnson
42. 65 Ozzy Felipe Lopez
43. 63 Berz Victor Martinez
44. 59 Snoop Jack Cust
45. 55 Capy Ted Lilly
46. 55 Guy Adrian Gonzalez
47. 55 Snoop Carlos Pena
48. 51 Sloww Francisco Rodriquez
49. 47 EmpFab Chone Figgins
50. 45 Fistand Javier Vazquez

Also... while people mocked me at the time, it turns out Verlander was a good value pick for me.

Number of players per team in the top 50:

1. Snoop 7
2. Ozzy 6
3. Berz 6
4. Jdd 6
5. Capy 5
6. Guy 4
7. Sloww 4
8. EmpFab 4
9. Fistand 3
10. Stuie 3
11. Imran 1
12. EPW 1

Finally, the 25 worst picks (i.e. the players who have had lousy seasons so far and haven't at all lived up to their draft position):

1. -1157 Jdd Scott Kazmir
2. -1137 Guy Ricky Nolasco
3. -1130 Sloww Josh Beckett
4. -1105 EmpFab Francisco Liriano
5. -1087 EmpFab Jon Lester
6. -1070 Sloww Edwin Encarnacion
7. -1059 Stuie Gavin Floyd
8. -1016 Jdd Alex Gordon
9. -1002 EmpFab Fausto Carmona
10. -999 Ozzy Andy Sonnanstine
11. -993 EPW Xavier Nady
12. -967 Sloww Oliver Perez
13. -944 Capy Vladimir Guerrero
14. -944 EPW Troy Glaus
15. -919 Imran Brandon Wood
16. -892 Berz Matt Wieters
17. -884 Fistand Jeff Clement
18. -861 Imran Lastings Milledge
19. -829 EmpFab Geovany Soto
20. -828 Berz Randy Johnson
21. -813 Ozzy Stephen Drew
22. -809 Capy Scott Baker
23. -776 Berz Alex Rodriguez
24. -774 Sloww A.J. Burnett
25. -772 Snoop Mike Aviles
26. -759 Imran Roy Oswalt
27. -752 Snoop Ryan Doumit
28. -732 Fistand David Ortiz
29. -724 Capy Jeremy Guthrie
30. -713 EPW Brad Lidge
31. -698 EPW Chris Young
32. -697 Stuie Cole Hamels
33. -696 Guy Carlos Guillen
34. -689 Sloww Chris Young
35. -676 EPW Garrett Atkins
36. -673 Capy Cameron Maybin
37. -668 EmpFab Alexei Ramirez
38. -662 Stuie Milton Bradley
39. -656 Jdd Conor Jackson
40. -633 Berz Jordan Zimmerman
41. -628 Berz Rafael Furcal
42. -627 Guy Brian McCann
43. -625 Guy Brandon Lyon
44. -624 Guy Scot Shields
45. -623 Fistand Jon Rauch
46. -619 guynemer Dioner Navarro
47. -607 Imran Gil Meche
48. -607 Stuie Pat Burrell
49. -605 Imran Matt Capps
50. -604 Fistand Manny Parra

(also, for the record, Snoopy dropped Chris Volstad and I picked him up, so I'm benefiting from his wise draft choice. )

[OzzyKP]

Oh, one more stat. Players who have so far performed at pretty much the appropriate level for where they were drafted at:

10 Berz Nate McLouth
9 EPW Johan Santana
9 EPW Adam Dunn
6 EmpFab Carlos Beltran
6 Sloww Randy Winn
6 Imran James Loney
1 Guy J.D. Drew
-1 Sloww Ian Kinsler
-2 EmpFab Albert Pujols
-3 Imran Matt Kemp
-4 Guy Roy Halladay
-6 Capy Jorge Cantú
-8 Fistand Ryan Braun
-8 Jdd Bobby Jenks
-9 Snoop Ivan Rodriguez
-10 Berz Jerry Hairston

[EPW]

I'm actually surprised I've done this well. Obviously this is based solely on the draft, so the reason I'm doing so poorly in the actual rankings is either because of poor pick-ups once the season started, bad luck, or my great habit of benching players when they have a great week and starting players that have an off week.

Nope, your team just sucks.

[OzzyKP]

Jealous that I drafted 6 times more top 50 players than you did?

[EPW]

Jealous of a team that has 11 fewer wins than I do? I don't think so.