How did draft position affect fantasy football league performance in 2024? (12-man leagues, snake draft)

[u/rsrgrimm]

To assess how draft position affected league performance, I looked into over 400 12-man leagues (all snake drafts) and plotted win ratio, normalized points earned (normalized within a given league to account for various scoring and roster settings), and final league ranking for each draft position.

Surprisingly, 1st pick performed worst on average across all metrics.

League data collected from Sleeper API.

[u/Nickyjha]

Surprisingly, 1st pick performed worst on average across all metrics.

not really surprising when the consensus number 1 pick ended up only playing 4 games and finishing as RB73

[u/rsrgrimm → u/Nickyjha]

Good point

[u/IndependentBoof → u/rsrgrimm]

I'd love to see this data for several combined years.

[u/Pure_Lengthiness2432 → u/Nickyjha]

You can’t win at Fantasy Football simply because of who your first round pick was, but you can sure as hell lose because of it.