It's been a while since we spit out some hot Armchair thoughts all over everybody. (Sorry for that image everyone) We see Dave's subjects are going to be all subjective on here, openly subjecting himself to scrutiny (see what I did there?). But me? I don't roll like that. If I let machines do all of my decisionmaking for me, then I don't have to own up to any definitive statements. You don't like what I have to say? Go scream at Watson. Seeing as how it's not long until machines take over the world (you know it to be true), I figure I might as well get good with them now. Where am I going with all of this? Well think of my posts as the exact opposite of Dave's posts. Dave points out the overpays/underpays of each team based on what he thinks, I say why don't we get analytical about this?
I took each player drafted and the price each manager paid for them and compared them to the avg price paid by a Yahoo! manager. I'll just mirror Dave and do overpay/underpay.
We can do better. One snag we have is that if we sum up the prices paid for all of our players we get ~$2525 (some people had leftover money). If we sum up the average Yahoo! price of those same players, we get $3020.9. So I adjusted each player's Yahoo! avg price, making the assumption that all of their dollars added up to $2525. Here's that same table again with the adjusted prices:
If we do this for every player we can sum them all up and see how much each team paid above or below the avg Yahoo! price:
Before we declare Ricky Bobby Andersoon Cooper John Paul the *winner* of this year's draft, what do these numbers actually mean? Well it's sort of saying that 3 1st Names got the most bang for their buck. While we all spent (about) the same amount of money, JP's team has players with higher Adjusted Avg Yahoo! Price. I think we can all make the assumption that if a player has a higher Avg Draft Price, he's a better fantasy player. So I suppose that the table above could suggest how well our draft went and ipso facto, how good our teams are.
However, this table is crap. No not only because I'm projected to be in last place, but because there are much better ways of predicting how this season will turn out. I'll try to shoot for a season preview sometime later this week. And boy is it much more accurate than what I just did in this post.
Side note: Anthony Davis and his unibrow are coming to Charlotte this fall (as long as all goes according to MJ's master plan). He won't be old enough yet, but I hope to celebrate my fantasy baseball championship this year with the young man.