A 1,000 man mock. (1 Viewer)

[FantasyTrader]

I wonder if this would be possible? Or maybe something like this has already been done and I just haven't heard about it.

With online "webinars" gaining such popularity I was struck with an idea this morning. Some sites like THIS allow up to 1,000 people to attend and they also incorperate a polling feature. A person could create a poll with the top 250-300 fantasy players as options. Each pick, the player with the majority vote would be drafted at that slot and removed from the players available list.

I think this would be extremely interesting to do because, involving so many people you could really get a sense of tiers. (i.e. - At pick #8, if 38% voted Addai, 33% voted Portis and 8% voted Lynch that's telling you an awful lot.)

It would VERY interesting to see if you could gather 1,000. The difficult part would be to gauge what % were taking it seriously and what % were there screwing around - trying to throw the numbers off. Anybody interested in something like this?

 

[awesomeness]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

 

[FantasyTrader]

Cool - thanks for pointing them out.

 

[FantasyTrader]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

Upon further inspection, no they don't do what I proposed at all. It's not even in the ballpark. There's quite a difference between what an individual would do in 1,000 drafts and what 1,000 people would do in an individual draft. ADP for the period of Aug. 29th - Aug. 31st last year - L.T. was drafted 516 times and Westbrook was drafted 343?! I'd have a tough time taking that seriously.

 

[awesomeness]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

Upon further inspection, no they don't do what I proposed at all. It's not even in the ballpark. There's quite a difference between what an individual would do in 1,000 drafts and what 1,000 people would do in an individual draft. ADP for the period of Aug. 29th - Aug. 31st last year - L.T. was drafted 516 times and Westbrook was drafted 343?! I'd have a tough time taking that seriously.

ignore that column, it doesnt even make sense and i dont understand why they would include it. If you look at the ADP from that site, that is pretty much the consensus you would get.

 

[Truman]

Addai won't slide that far.

 

[The Carnage]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

Upon further inspection, no they don't do what I proposed at all. It's not even in the ballpark. There's quite a difference between what an individual would do in 1,000 drafts and what 1,000 people would do in an individual draft. ADP for the period of Aug. 29th - Aug. 31st last year - L.T. was drafted 516 times and Westbrook was drafted 343?! I'd have a tough time taking that seriously.

ignore that column, it doesnt even make sense and i dont understand why they would include it. If you look at the ADP from that site, that is pretty much the consensus you would get.

I think that column shows the number of times the player was selected at that (his final ADP) position. So Tomlinson was selected 60.6% of the time as the 1.01 (516 times out of the 851 drafts).

 

[Follows Closely]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

Upon further inspection, no they don't do what I proposed at all. It's not even in the ballpark. There's quite a difference between what an individual would do in 1,000 drafts and what 1,000 people would do in an individual draft. ADP for the period of Aug. 29th - Aug. 31st last year - L.T. was drafted 516 times and Westbrook was drafted 343?! I'd have a tough time taking that seriously.

ignore that column, it doesnt even make sense and i dont understand why they would include it. If you look at the ADP from that site, that is pretty much the consensus you would get.

I think that column shows the number of times the player was selected at that (his final ADP) position. So Tomlinson was selected 60.6% of the time as the 1.01 (516 times out of the 851 drafts).

No way would you get 1000 people to sit down and do a mock.

 

[JAA]

isnt this simply ADP?

 

[BroadwayG]

isnt this simply ADP?

 

[BassNBrew]

Dang...thought this was going to be a thread about Woz.

 

[FantasyTrader]

fantasyfootballcalculator.com does this already, and it doesnt take 1000 people all their at once.

Upon further inspection, no they don't do what I proposed at all. It's not even in the ballpark. There's quite a difference between what an individual would do in 1,000 drafts and what 1,000 people would do in an individual draft. ADP for the period of Aug. 29th - Aug. 31st last year - L.T. was drafted 516 times and Westbrook was drafted 343?! I'd have a tough time taking that seriously.

ignore that column, it doesnt even make sense and i dont understand why they would include it. If you look at the ADP from that site, that is pretty much the consensus you would get.

I think that column shows the number of times the player was selected at that (his final ADP) position. So Tomlinson was selected 60.6% of the time as the 1.01 (516 times out of the 851 drafts).

No way would you get 1000 people to sit down and do a mock.

You would if you advertised a chance at winning a $10,000 Grand Prize to the 3 mockers closest to the ADP but I can't really say more than that about it. You'd get 1,000 if you made it worth their time.

 

[FantasyTrader]

isnt this simply ADP?

No. The differences would be suble but there WOULD be differences. One example I can think of is - let's say for the sake of argument it's a 12 team draft and at #12 and #13 the majority ruled RB/RB. And maybe according to ADP Jamal Lewis was #25 overall. It's highly unlikely the majority would vote in a 3rd RB and not addressing WR or another position at the #25 pick.ADP doesn't take the current roster of your team into account (and the majority in a mock would). Yes, I know I'm splitting hairs.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Wow, that'd be a bummer to get the 1000th pick, though luckily your second round pick would come right away

-QG