Value Based Drafting. The Draft Planner

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By walesy on Feb 9, 2014 at 11:00 AM
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    You might remember last year, a post put up in these parts discussing the power of Value based drafting- what it is, and how it assist you in creating an awesome team.



    Well, the latest feature of TS,Draft Planner,does the heavy lifting for you.
    So, what is Value Based Drafting? VBD is a method that allows you to rank players, across different positions, into the one master list, by comparing how much better each player is than any lower ranked replacements.
    It sounds difficult, but the math behind it is quite simple, firstly, you grab a baseline for each position. The baseline is derived by grabbing the worst possible score for that position.
    So, for example, if you only needed a single ruck, in a competition of 8, then based on last years results, you'd be looking at Naitanui, and his average of 96 as the baseline. Which would score Goldstein, and his 114 average as an18. Considering you're looking at around 40 from a top round pick, you'd be silly to grab him early. In fact, looking at the numbers, you'd grab him at around Round 10.
    However, if you needed two rucks, the baseline suddenly drops down to an 88, giving Goldstein a 26 and more of a 3rd round rating.
    So it's a formula, that is completely dynamic across whatever competition, and whatever format it runs.
    How does it work?
    First thing you want to do is create a team for your competition. Once you've done that, you're able to enter in the number of positions across each spot that you need to fill (And a bench spot if you have wildcard spots.)
    After you've done that, you can simply hit the Generate Draft List button and you've got yourself a quick draft.
    Of course, players don't average the same thing year in, year out, so we've got the ability to get in there and change what you think will happen. Think JPK will go nuts and average 141- throw it in and you'll find him right up at the pointy end of your draft.
    You can then add notes to whatever player to read during your draft, or mark someone who's injured to the 'Do Not Want' List.
    Finally, if you're a donor, you can export the whole thing out to Excel for whatever draft goodness you have planned. Or yanno, keep track of your draft in TS- marking each guy off as he goes.
    As always though, new features have bugs- so if something goes screwy, let me know!
     

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