Using Prediction Markets to Exploit Rookie Average Draft Position

Kevin Cole
April 10, 2015

Recently we were all standing around the RotoViz virtual water cooler, shooting the breeze on weighting prospect similarity variables, dealing with comment trolls,^[1]This is my preferred method. and properly calculating draft equity,^[2]Get a glimpse of the newly added “Exposure” tab, part of our indispensable Best Ball ADP App when Fantasy Douche wondered aloud if Breshad Perriman’s redraft ADP is historically cheap considering his expected draft position. Around these parts there’s only one way to properly add to a discussion: dig through the data and put together some fancy looking visualizations. So, that’s what I did.

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↑1	This is my preferred method.
↑2	Get a glimpse of the newly added “Exposure” tab, part of our indispensable Best Ball ADP App

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