Making better use of ADP data
Mar 10 2009
The average draft position (ADP) results presented in each week's Market Pulse column for mock drafts held on Mock Draft Central include both the actual ADP as well as the earliest and latest selections for each player. Although this gives one a good idea of where in the draft each player is selected, it can be misleading when trying to determine how early to target a player. If you wait until your pick closest to the ADP value, you risk that player not being available. But if you draft that player around the point of his earliest selection, you're likely drafting him too soon.
In order to dig deeper into this issue, Baseball HQ obtained the complete results for 453 drafts conducted on Mock Draft Central in 2008. We examined the...
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