Draft-level analytics for 2024

If you're like most fantasy managers, you probably pay a lot of attention to average draft position (ADP) data, and trust it as an accurate measure of players' market prices when planning and executing your drafts.

While somewhat helpful as a quick-and-dirty resource, the “A” in ADP — average — unfortunately masks what's really going on in the market. Our preferred approach is to collect and analyze daily draft data, which is far more revealing.

Below is a primer on our draft-level analytic metrics and how to use them. If you want to skip that and get right to the data, you can download the data right here

Draft-level analytics primer

How do we get this data?

We source data from the NFBC by downloading each day's worth of data and...

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