05-01-2022, 02:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-16-2022, 02:42 PM by soevil. Edited 1 time in total.)
Intro
I was putting together a wiki page for the most recent DSFL draft and I thought there were some interesting stats. Hope you guys enjoy.
Welcome to 3 Graphs and 2 Tables!
Do you like auto-generated Google Sheets colors? Does the amount of DSFL draftees from the C-USA conference excite you? Do your trousers get twisted when you thumb through team positional priority? Did you answer yes to any of these questions? No!? Well have I got the thread for you. Buckle up for my analysis extravaganza, and please, take a seat. Today we’re looking at the top conferences represented in the DSFL draft, top colleges, and a smattering of positional distribution.
2050 DSFL Draftees by Conference
-Any player whose college either didn’t have a conference, or was “fictitious”, e.g. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who attended college at Ursa Minor Technical Institute, was lumped in with No League.
Top Conferences
Jumping right into it with an unexpected twist, the Big Ten takes the cake in terms of most prospects. My hypothesis was that the SEC would have been at the top, as a layman college football follower, I would have expected the SEC to generate more interest due to the endless success of their conference. Yet I severely underestimated the popularity of THE Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan, plus another surprise Big Ten school which we’ll visit in a later section. I suppose it follows that a school with extraordinarily high numbers of undergraduate enrollment and their fierce northern rivals would shoot to the top of the list. Shoutout to the PAC-12 at 4th place, west coast represent, and our 4 Ivy League DSFL players, you smarties!
Top Colleges
Michigan Wolverines: 6 Players
Ohio State Buckeyes: 5 Players
Nebraska Cornhuskers: 5 Players
Penn State Nittany Lions: 3 Players
Georgia Bulldogs: 2 Players
Alabama Crimson Tide: 2 Players
The Wolverines grabbed the top spot for number of players in the draft. They outstripped conference rival Ohio State, as well as SEC powerhouses Alabama and Georgia. A surprising Big Ten school playing with the big dogs is Nebraska tied at #2 with 5 players. The Cornhuskers made a big showing in this year’s draft class, and I’m happy to see it for the Nebraskans. The Nittany Lions came in at a cool, calm, and collected #4, unbothered, moisturized, happy, in their lane, focused, and clearly a head above the rest with 3 players. Surprising everybody is perennial SEC superteams Alabama and Georgia mixing with the masses at 2 players a piece, tied with schools like North Dakota State and BYU. Definitely a disappointing year for those schools.
Outro
I was putting together a wiki page for the most recent DSFL draft and I thought there were some interesting stats. Hope you guys enjoy.
Welcome to 3 Graphs and 2 Tables!
Do you like auto-generated Google Sheets colors? Does the amount of DSFL draftees from the C-USA conference excite you? Do your trousers get twisted when you thumb through team positional priority? Did you answer yes to any of these questions? No!? Well have I got the thread for you. Buckle up for my analysis extravaganza, and please, take a seat. Today we’re looking at the top conferences represented in the DSFL draft, top colleges, and a smattering of positional distribution.
2050 DSFL Draftees by Conference
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-Any conference with 2 players or less was grouped into Other Leagues. e.g MVFC (Missouri Valley Football Conference) home to North Dakota State University, with 2 players in the draft, was gathered into Other Leagues. -Any player whose college either didn’t have a conference, or was “fictitious”, e.g. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who attended college at Ursa Minor Technical Institute, was lumped in with No League.
Top Conferences
Jumping right into it with an unexpected twist, the Big Ten takes the cake in terms of most prospects. My hypothesis was that the SEC would have been at the top, as a layman college football follower, I would have expected the SEC to generate more interest due to the endless success of their conference. Yet I severely underestimated the popularity of THE Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan, plus another surprise Big Ten school which we’ll visit in a later section. I suppose it follows that a school with extraordinarily high numbers of undergraduate enrollment and their fierce northern rivals would shoot to the top of the list. Shoutout to the PAC-12 at 4th place, west coast represent, and our 4 Ivy League DSFL players, you smarties!
Top Colleges
Michigan Wolverines: 6 Players
Ohio State Buckeyes: 5 Players
Nebraska Cornhuskers: 5 Players
Penn State Nittany Lions: 3 Players
Georgia Bulldogs: 2 Players
Alabama Crimson Tide: 2 Players
The Wolverines grabbed the top spot for number of players in the draft. They outstripped conference rival Ohio State, as well as SEC powerhouses Alabama and Georgia. A surprising Big Ten school playing with the big dogs is Nebraska tied at #2 with 5 players. The Cornhuskers made a big showing in this year’s draft class, and I’m happy to see it for the Nebraskans. The Nittany Lions came in at a cool, calm, and collected #4, unbothered, moisturized, happy, in their lane, focused, and clearly a head above the rest with 3 players. Surprising everybody is perennial SEC superteams Alabama and Georgia mixing with the masses at 2 players a piece, tied with schools like North Dakota State and BYU. Definitely a disappointing year for those schools.
Distribution of Prospects by Position
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Out of 124 Eligible Players
65 Players declared for the draft on Offense
54 Players line up on the Defensive side of the ball
4 Players are Special Teams
It’s interesting to see how the positional distribution of players shook out. At the top end of the chart we have a clear bias towards offensive skill positions, with WR, TE, and RB all having 17+ draftees. But the offense vs defense scales are balanced out by the class only having 1 QB draftee. It would seem that all the ominous warnings and foretelling of woe from the Rookie Mentor team worked in the end! On the defensive side of the ball, LB was most popular, but DT and DE would have been #1 if I had grouped them together. Interestingly enough, defensive backs were the least popular positions for all S36 rookies, and especially CB creates who are all the way down at 8 players.
65 Players declared for the draft on Offense
54 Players line up on the Defensive side of the ball
4 Players are Special Teams
It’s interesting to see how the positional distribution of players shook out. At the top end of the chart we have a clear bias towards offensive skill positions, with WR, TE, and RB all having 17+ draftees. But the offense vs defense scales are balanced out by the class only having 1 QB draftee. It would seem that all the ominous warnings and foretelling of woe from the Rookie Mentor team worked in the end! On the defensive side of the ball, LB was most popular, but DT and DE would have been #1 if I had grouped them together. Interestingly enough, defensive backs were the least popular positions for all S36 rookies, and especially CB creates who are all the way down at 8 players.
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In rounds 1-3, teams prioritized defense. There were only 8 players selected on the offensive side of the ball by the end of the 3rd round. Teams were definitely trying to lock up the scarce defensive talent early before moving onto the more plentiful prospects on the offensive side of the ball. I took an intro to statistics class in college so you can trust me on that one, not that I remember much of it. Something about p values, something something null hypothesis, yada yada conclusion. Listen, all you need to know is I’m probably right. Or maybe I’m not, you decide.
Anyways teams and GMs moved on to draft more offensive positions throughout the middle rounds, and the late rounds as well. We also saw a run on special teams in the 14th round. Look at that massive spike! To cap it all off the Pythons wrapped things up at pick 124 in the 16th round by taking 2050 Mr. Irrelevant Dern Smithson. Congratulations to all the teams and draftees, we will be following your careers with great interest!
Anyways teams and GMs moved on to draft more offensive positions throughout the middle rounds, and the late rounds as well. We also saw a run on special teams in the 14th round. Look at that massive spike! To cap it all off the Pythons wrapped things up at pick 124 in the 16th round by taking 2050 Mr. Irrelevant Dern Smithson. Congratulations to all the teams and draftees, we will be following your careers with great interest!
Outro
124 players! That's crazy. It was interesting to see how the conferences played out, and I was surprised by the low representation of schools like Bama overall. Also a nice clump of rookie in the offensive skill positions, there will be some fierce competition there! There are so many great users and I'm stoked to see how it all plays out. Great job to all the GMs and front offices for all the hard work they put in. See you guys next time!