So answering your question was easy:
Here’s the first round positional breakdown across all rookie drafts (2010–2025):
Overall: 192 first round picks
- RB: 87 (45.3%)
- WR: 77 (40.1%)
- QB: 19 (9.9%)
- TE: 7 (3.6%)
- K: 1 (0.5%)
- DEF: 1 (0.5%)
But then I saw… a kicker and a defense in the first round? that can’t be right. there must be some sort of record keeping error.
So I did some investigation. The spreadsheet confirms those picks were real - or at least they existed alongside other plausible draft picks. So I dug out the old SDMB FF Dynasty League: Year Two to investigate. I forgot this - it was 16 years ago - but we didn’t have the in-thread draft system in year 2. We entered all our keepers into yahoo and then had a live draft through the app. And some players couldn’t attend the live draft, so they pre-ranked their list, but yahoo will always auto draft empty starting spots before drafting players from your pre-rankings, so these two owners actually drafted a kicker and defense in the first round. It was probably one of the reasons we moved to the (much superior) thread draft.
I’ve been vague on which owners drafted which kickers/defense. I don’t want to steer up painful 16 year old memories haha. I think we debated coordinating another draft to rectify this problem but there were logistical and other problems with it. Maybe we threw them some FAAB dollars or future draft picks, I can’t remember.
Funny to see Varlos (I miss Varlos) happy that we retained all our managers into year 2. I hope he knows, whatever planet he’s on, that we’re still alive and kicking in year 17.