Sunday, July 16, 2017

Allocation Draft: Crunching the Numbers

The USFL/WFL allocation draft is (mercifully) over. Who set themselves up for immediate success and who set themselves up for future reward?
The table below is meant to be a conversation starter, not an indicator of anything. It contains only the average current scores (my weights) and the average maximum scores of each team. Fortunately for us, nobody had the top score in their division in both categories. In many cases, as you might expect, a low current average was coupled with a high maximum average ... and vice versa.
The highest average current scores were by Boston, Florida, Tampa Bay, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Birmingham.
The highest average maximum scores were by New Orleans, Portland, Honolulu, Cleveland and Arizona.
The New Orleans VooDoo was second in the NFC South in current and first in maximum. The Arizona Wranglers were second in the AFC West in both.
Big Guido, New Orleans VooDoo
"It was a combination of great planning by our player personnel department and luck in having good players fall to us," VooDoo coach Big Guido said.
Good luck to all in free agency and in preparing for Saturday's exhibition opener.

AvgCur AvgMax
American Conference

Pacific

Los Angeles 51.28 70.22
San Jose 49.35 68.91
Southern Calif. 45.67 67.61
Honolulu 42.07 71.54
West

Denver 48.24 66.41
Arizona 48 71.1
Oakland 42.46 69.2
Portland 41.61 72.09
Southwest

Memphis 46.85 68.33
San Antonio 43.37 67.33
Houston 39.76 66.5
Oklahoma 37.09 70.76
Midwest

Chicago 45.41 70.26
Michigan 45.15 68.09
Cleveland 42.78 71.54
Detroit 42.54 69.83
National Conference

Southeast

Florida 59.43 69.59
Tampa Bay 52.74 69.04
Jacksonville 51.57 70.39
Orlando 49.35 69.93
South

Birmingham 50.15 69.7
New Orleans 49.13 73.04
Georgia 47.02 69.46
Shreveport 43.48 69.57
Atlantic

Charlotte 46.22 66.52
Baltimore 46.07 70.59
Pittsburgh 40.85 71.07
Washington 39.04 67.7
East

Boston 66.28 69.72
New York 51.67 66.89
Philadelphia 51.26 67.43
New Jersey 35.5 70.13