{"id":6247,"date":"2015-08-18T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2015-08-18T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:43:35","slug":"research-shows-third-overall-pick-is-most-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/research-shows-third-overall-pick-is-most-valuable\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Shows Third Overall Pick Is Most Valuable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of #QFL #FantasyFootball rookie picks over the last 5 years revealed some surprising insights relating to optimal draft order positioning. It turns out, when it comes to what draft position yields the most frequently fantasy relevant players, it&#8217;s not the first pick overall, it&#8217;s the third!<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_6248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6248\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-optimal-rookie-pick-position.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-optimal-rookie-pick-position.png\" alt=\"Best Rookie Pick Positions\" width=\"479\" height=\"286\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/qballers.com\/\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-optimal-rookie-pick-position.png 479w, https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/qballers.com\/\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2015-optimal-rookie-pick-position-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Best Rookie Pick Positions<\/figcaption><\/figure><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>QSN took the QFL draft results from 2010-2014 and assigned a relevance score to each player selected. Not only did this study reveal the most optimal draft position, it also revealed the least optimal, which surprisingly included the #2 overall pick. The #2 overall pick struck out just at frequently as the #24! <\/p>\n<p>The very worst picks to have are #15, #18 and #23.<\/p>\n<p>The very best picks to have (after #3) is #5 and #11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of #QFL #FantasyFootball rookie picks over the last 5 years revealed some surprising insights relating to optimal draft order positioning. It turns out, when it comes to what draft position yields the most frequently fantasy relevant players, it&#8217;s not the first pick overall, it&#8217;s the third!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[412,260,45],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qfl-nation-news","category-qfl-prime","tag-analysis","tag-rookie-picks","tag-rookie-rankings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}