| 2011 Fantasy Baseball Average Draft Position (ADP) |
| Written by Kelly Pfleiger |
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Then there are the mock drafts themselves that are inherently wrong themselves. In an auction you have a $260 limit. However, in a mock draft, there is rarely a bench associated for each team. So the top tier players have more spent on them. In addition, the lower tiered players will go cheaper since other teams have filled up their roster slots already. Therefore the price for each player can vary greatly, and thus some of the wide margins in value that you noticed.
By way of example, I participated in an expert mock auction draft, and I had $30 left over at the end of the draft. It is not that I went on the cheap with players, it was because I needed two outfielders and was able to get Michael Cuddyer and Dextor Fowler for a combined three dollars. Now, if we had a bench available, I am sure the other guys would have bid for both players. Since they all had a full OF already, they did not.
I know this was a long explanation of the wide variances in the auction value ranges. Thankfully I had enough overall data to get a solid average value for the scarcity reports to be accurate.
I will be posting an article later this week with some recent trends that I have seen in ADP over the last week or so.