Best Ball Win Rates from 2020

Hayden Winks
Underdog Sports
2 min readJun 22, 2021

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Data from Underdog Fantasy’s 2020 Best Ball Mania I.

We are working on making more of our data public, and this is where you’ll be able to find it. Some of it will be the raw data that you can analyze. Some of the posts will be my own analysis of it. Either way, you’re in the right spot.

Today, I have our version of “best ball win rate”. Typically that term is reserved for first place in a 12-person best ball draft, but more than one team in a 12-person draft advances in Best Ball Mania each season. That’s why I’m calling this “Advanced Rate” here. The average player had a 21.3% advanced rate last year, so any player above that mark had a profitable season.

In the table below, you’ll see how often each player was drafted (“Drafted”), how often they missed the best ball playoffs (“Lost”), how often they were eliminated in the second round of the best ball playoffs before being eliminated(“R2_Elim”), and how often a team appeared on the roster of a team in the finals (“Finals”). Keep in mind that there were 50 teams in the finals, 600 teams in Round 3, and 7,200 teams in Round 2 of Underdog Fantasy’s Best Ball Mania I.

Note I: 100 drafts minimum to qualify.

Note II: The previous post was deleted after finding an error in the advancement data. We are working on getting cleaned pick-by-pick data available to the public.

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