Honestly, those stats are so full of holes it's hardly worth it. Raw data is useless unless filtered and normalised, and all too often used to misrepresent the truth.Always been a massive avocate for top 5 picks and just wanted to revisit in more detail after Watson dominated in his first year tonight.
Study conducted from 2000-2021 (Pick/Ave Games up to 2010/Hit rate above ave player on ave games and expectation %)
Have some qualifications like impact over short career and auto ticked any player who won a flag but raw numbers are as follows;
Pick. 1 / 237 ave games / 68%
2. 196/73
3. 205/59
4. 136/50
5. 221/46
6. 93/18
7. 211/46
8. 113/27
9. 133/36
We are likely to end up with selections 8, 9 overall so this whole thing has not only wasted my time but severely dampened my spirirts at landing a superstar and i thought id at least try and share that misery with you all. x
A better measure would simply be annual salary which has all filters naturally applied