r/dataisbeautiful • u/rsrgrimm • 2d ago

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

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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.

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u/Reverie_of_an_INTP 2d ago

What do the triangles mean and what are the dots outside the whiskers mean?

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u/rsrgrimm 2d ago edited 1d ago

The dotted horizontal line toward the middle of the box is the mean, whereas the solid horizontal line is the median. The points of the dotted triangles indicate 1 standard deviation above and below the mean. Dots beyond the whiskers can be considered outliers and are calculated to be points farther than 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR, i.e. the range between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile) from the IQR.