Draft Analysis – Average Draft Position

To mix things up this year, several of us at MLS Fantasy Boss decided to run three 10 players draft leagues on draftmls.com.  These three leagues included former FMLS champions, a couple other top 10 finishers, and many more top 100 regulars. It is one of the smartest collections of fantasy minds around. The table below contains the average draft ranks for every player picked across the three leagues.

Giovinco and Lodeiro flew off the board as consensus 1 and 2 respectively. Villa and Feilhaber were the two players picked third, though Feilhaber was picked lower in the other drafts. The highest ADP defender was Zimmerman at 34 followed by Sjoberg at 49 and Hedges at 52. The highest ADP keepers were Bingham ranked at 59, Howard at 60, and Frei at 67.

This is just a rough ranking so don’t take it as gospel. The sample size of 3 drafts is rather small. Just one manager grabbing a player way earlier than the other drafts can seriously skew the rank. For the most part, I think we did pretty well and I’d definitely recommend this as your base guide instead of the ratings on the website.

Average Draft Rankings

Rank	Player	Average Draft Position
1	Giovinco	1
2	Lodeiro	2
3	Villa	3.3
4	Valeri	5.7
5	Kljestan	5.7
6	dos Santos	6
7	Feilhaber	6.7
8	Piatti	7.7
9	O. Kamara	10.3
10	Adi	11
11	BWP	11.7
12	Kaka	13
13	Larin	14.7
14	Alonso	16.3
15	Accam	17
16	Altidore	18.3
17	Almiron	20.7
18	Villalba	20.7
19	Blanco	21
20	Dempsey	21.3
21	Nikolic	22
22	Bradley	23
23	Moralez	25
24	Plata	25
25	Molino	26.7
26	Nguyen	27.7
27	Gashi	29.7
28	Diaz	30
29	Dwyer	31
30	K. Kamara	31.3
31	Rusnak	32.7
32	Higuain	33.7
33	Alessandrini	33.7
34	Zimmerman	34.7
35	Sam	35.3
36	Meram	37.7
37	L Acosta	38.3
38	Mullins	40.7
39	Nagbe	41
40	Montero	42.7
41	Colman	43
42	Morris	43.7
43	McCarty	44.7
44	Martinez	45.7
45	Cooper	47.3
46	Barrios	49.3
47	Wondo	50.3
48	Morales	50.7
49	Sjoberg	51.7
50	Pirlo	51.7
51	Finlay	52
52	Hedges	53
53	J. Venegas	56
54	Afful	57
55	Morrow	62
56	Lletget	63
57	Felipe	65
58	K Rowe	66.7
59	Bingham	67.7
60	Howard	69.3
61	Moor	69.7
62	de Leeuw	70.7
63	Manneh	71.7
64	R Torres	72
65	Bolanos	72
66	Asad	72.3
67	Frei	72.3
68	Robles	73
69	Birnbaum	74
70	Irwin	74
71	Kemp	75
72	Harrison	75.7
73	Pontius	76.7
74	Vytas	78
75	Ciman	78.7
76	Mancosu	79.3
77	Vazquez	83.7
78	Zardes	84.7
79	Matarrita	85.3
80	K Jones	88.7
81	Opara	89.3
82	Marshall	90
83	Seitz	90.7
84	Mensah	91
85	Lamah	91
86	Calvo	92.3
87	Van Damme	92.3
88	Grella	93.7
89	Steres	94
90	Juninho	94.3
91	Rimando	94.7
92	B Rowe	94.7
93	Naess	96
94	Alvarez	98
95	K Acosta	99
96	Hamid	99
97	Nyarko	99
98	Bernardez	99.7
99	Elis	99.7
100	Besler	100.7
101	Tierney	103
102	Jermaine Jones	104.3
103	Collin	105
104	Delamea	106
105	Agudelo	106.3
106	Medranda	108
107	Waston	108.3
108	Zusi	110
109	Brilliant	111.3
110	Blake	111.3
111	Ousted	114.3
112	Boswell	114.7
113	Allen	116.3
114	Campbell	117.3
115	Watts	117.7
116	Davies	118
117	Rosenberry	118.3
118	Chanot	120
119	Jungwirth	120.3
120	Melia	123
121	Gonzalez Pirez	123.7
122	Gleeson	124
123	Loyd	124
124	McNamara	124.7
125	Powell	125
126	Badji	125.3
127	Bush	125.7
128	Ibarra	126
129	Reyna	126
130	Burch	126.3
131	Garza	127.3
132	Baah	127.3
133	Cubo	128
134	Davis	128.7
135	Cabrera	129.3
136	Parkhurst	129.3
137	Oduro	129.3
138	Hyka	130.3
139	Neagle	130.3
140	Sarvas	131.3
141	Ridgewell	132
142	Beitashour	133.3
143	Beasley	133.7
144	Joevin Jones	133.7
145	Kadrii	134.7
146	Wallace	135.3
147	Kappelhof	135.7
148	S Johnson	135.7
149	Boateng	136
150	Chala	136.7
151	Gatt	137.7
152	Fernandes	140.7
153	Duvall	140.7
154	Miller	141
155	Spector	141
156	Franklin	141.3
157	Lassiter	142
158	Bedoya	142
159	Lima	142
160	Perez Garcia	142.3
161	Rivas	142.7
162	Bava	143
163	Evans	143
164	Royer	143.7
165	Meira	144
166	Steffen	144.3
167	Cubo	144.3
168	Oyongo	144.7
169	Sauro	145
170	Angoua	145.3
171	Shuttleworth	146.3
172	Perrinelle	146.3
173	Deric	146.7
174	Parker	146.7
175	Camara	147
176	Kann	147
177	Bendik	147.3
178	Powers	147.7
179	Glad	148
180	Cole	149
181	MacMath	149.3
182	Cropper	150.7
183	Jordan Allen	150.7

Sample Teams

So how did my draft go? Here are the final rosters for the two teams I drafted.

I drafted 9th in the first league and went into the draft planning to grab big forwards and high floor midfielders. As luck would have it, I accomplished just that and ended up with a decent defense.

 

I drafted 3rd in my second league and felt much better about that draft overall. I decided to go with the same strategy, but I would save my last forward and midfield slots to the end instead of grabbing a keeper and defender with my last two picks.