Bumped...Paragon
Watching ESPN's draft coverage, I was wondering which conference had the best draft? It appeared like the Pac-10 was doing well, since USC, OSU and Oregon each had a pretty high number of draft picks this year. So this morning I took a look and saw that many Big East fans were claiming that they had the best draft as a conference based on # of players drafted per team. I thought it was a faulty analysis since it ignores where players went (is it better to have 3 in top-10 or 15 in round 7?).
So here is the "ultimate" conference breakdown - I will use 3 metrics and rank each conference based on the outcome. Then, I will add 3 rankings and see which conference comes up on top.
Ranking #1: Players drafted per team
This seems to be the most popular measure on the Internets. Lets forget its fallacies and analyze the draft results:
| Teams | Total | Per Team | Rank | |
| BE | 8 | 27 | 3.38 | 11.00 |
| P10 | 10 | 32 | 3.20 | 10.00 |
| SEC | 12 | 37 | 3.08 | 9.00 |
| ACC | 12 | 33 | 2.75 | 8.00 |
| B10 | 11 | 28 | 2.55 | 7.00 |
| B12 | 12 | 28 | 2.33 | 6.00 |
| MWC | 9 | 16 | 1.78 | 5.00 |
| WAC | 9 | 10 | 1.11 | 4.00 |
| CUS | 12 | 10 | 0.83 | 3.00 |
| MAC | 13 | 10 | 0.77 | 2.00 |
| SBL | 9 | 2 | 0.22 | 1.00 |
Ok, no question here - Big East had the most players drafted per team. Pac-10 did well here.
Ranking #2: Draft Points per Team
Since there are 256 players drafted, I will assign a value of 256 to #1 pick and 1 to Mr. Irrelevant. Then add up all the points and divide by the number of teams in the conference.
| Teams | Total | Per Team | Rank | |
| SEC | 12 | 5181 | 431.8 | 11.0 |
| P10 | 10 | 4262 | 426.2 | 10.0 |
| B10 | 11 | 4252 | 386.5 | 9.0 |
| BE | 8 | 3002 | 375.3 | 8.0 |
| ACC | 12 | 4460 | 371.7 | 7.0 |
| B12 | 12 | 4248 | 354.0 | 6.0 |
| MWC | 9 | 1417 | 157.4 | 5.0 |
| WAC | 9 | 1055 | 117.2 | 4.0 |
| MAC | 13 | 1361 | 104.7 | 3.0 |
| CUS | 12 | 1100 | 91.7 | 2.0 |
| SBL | 9 | 214 | 23.8 | 1.0 |
No surprise here - SEC did well because they owned the first round. Pac-10 comes second again
Ranking #3: Trade Value Points per Team
Similar to #2, but instead we use draft trade value points. My only problem with this trade value chart is that the point difference is very large in earlier part of the draft.
| Total | Per Team | Rank | |
| SEC | 13602.6 | 1133.6 | 11.0 |
| B12 | 10519.8 | 876.7 | 10.0 |
| ACC | 10055.45 | 838.0 | 9.0 |
| P10 | 8255.35 | 825.5 | 8.0 |
| B10 | 7035.4 | 639.6 | 7.0 |
| BE | 4645.15 | 580.6 | 6.0 |
| MAC | 2564.5 | 197.3 | 5.0 |
| WAC | 969.9 | 107.8 | 4.0 |
| MWC | 925.9 | 102.9 | 3.0 |
| CUS | 602.85 | 50.2 | 2.0 |
| SBL | 311.3 | 34.6 | 1.0 |
Pac-10 is now #4 - SEC, Big-12 and ACC did well in round one, thus they round up the top three.
So what do we have now? Our Draft Conference Rankings are as follows:
| SEC | 31.00 |
| P10 | 28.00 |
| BE | 25.00 |
| ACC | 24.00 |
| B10 | 23.00 |
| B12 | 22.00 |
| MWC | 13.00 |
| WAC | 12.00 |
| MAC | 10.00 |
| CUS | 7.00 |
| SBL | 3.00 |
So contrary to what I saw on many Pac-10 and Big East boards, those conferences didn't have the best draft. Instead this honor goes to SEC - so more power to those clowns :)
Interesting observation, Pac-10 had the lowest representation % of BCS conferences (# of different teams with players drafted / # of team in the conference). 3 Pac-10 teams didn't have a player drafted (Stanford, UW and fucla). Basically, USC, OSU and Oregon saved the day for the Pac.
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