Fantasy Cares Eliminator Win Rate By Number Drafted Per Position

As part of our preparation for our first sponsored Fantasy Cares Eliminator draft, we felt it would be a good idea to dive into the 2018 leagues and do a roster construction analysis to see if there were any patterns in the winning teams. With 17 teams per league, and a wildly forgiving lineup configuration in this best ball compeition, it is uncharted territory for us. In fact, when checking with the contest commissioner, John Bosch (@JohnBoschFF), he indicated that no one had performed a roster construction analysis.

As mentioned in the post for our Eliminator league HERE, a weekly 8 player starting lineup can be comprised of the following:


QB 0-2
RB 0-8
WR 0-8
TE 0-8
K 0-8
DST 0-8


While perusing some of the draft boards for completed leagues, we saw some wild approaches. Some people were loading up on kickers and defense. It couldn’t be this random could it? There must be some optimal configuration.


So we visited the 2018 MyFantasyLeague pages for last year’s leagues. Though the scoring is a little different this year (includes points per first downs), it still parallels last year’s setup pretty closely. We extracted the draft data of 54 eliminator leagues, analyzed the roster constructions used, and compared them to the teams that actually won their divisions. (This is the same type of analysis that we have done for the FFPC Best Ball leagues).


The results are below. First we break out the win rates by number of players drafted by position. If there was some magic to going heavy on a particular position, or fading another, surely it would come to light. Following the win rates we show the roster construction of all 54 winning teams. We see some actionable patterns here, but will let each observer draw their own conclusions as we are competing to win our division as well.

2018 Win Rate By Number Drafted at Position

(The average win rate is 5.88% – 1 in 17)

Position Num Drafted At Pos 2018 Teams Drafted This Amount 2018 Tot Teams Won 2018 Win Rate
DEF 0 327 18 5.5%
DEF 1 240 16 6.67%
DEF 2 187 7 3.74%
DEF 3 83 10 12.05%
DEF 4 43 0 0%
DEF 5 28 1 3.57%
DEF 6 6 1 16.67%
DEF 7 2 1 50%
DEF 8 1 0 0%
DEF 14 1 0 0%
PK 0 305 12 3.93%
PK 1 283 19 6.71%
PK 2 196 17 8.67%
PK 3 80 5 6.25%
PK 4 39 1 2.56%
PK 5 12 0 0%
PK 6 3 0 0%
QB 0 15 1 6.67%
QB 1 72 4 5.56%
QB 2 487 29 5.95%
QB 3 285 18 6.32%
QB 4 56 2 3.57%
QB 5 3 0 0%
RB 0 21 1 4.76%
RB 1 66 2 3.03%
RB 2 97 11 11.34%
RB 3 173 9 5.2%
RB 4 204 16 7.84%
RB 5 181 8 4.42%
RB 6 98 4 4.08%
RB 7 38 2 5.26%
RB 8 22 0 0%
RB 9 10 1 10%
RB 10 7 0 0%
RB 12 1 0 0%
TE 0 166 13 7.83%
TE 1 222 16 7.21%
TE 2 273 15 5.49%
TE 3 155 6 3.87%
TE 4 75 3 4%
TE 5 17 1 5.88%
TE 6 6 0 0%
TE 7 1 0 0%
TE 8 1 0 0%
TE 9 1 0 0%
TE 15 1 0 0%
WR 0 7 0 0%
WR 1 21 2 9.52%
WR 2 46 4 8.7%
WR 3 89 2 2.25%
WR 4 189 7 3.7%
WR 5 194 12 6.19%
WR 6 155 11 7.1%
WR 7 108 3 2.78%
WR 8 56 6 10.71%
WR 9 34 4 11.76%
WR 10 16 2 12.5%
WR 11 3 1 33.33%

2018 Winning Teams Roster Construction

QB RB WR TE PK DEF
1 9 1 0 2 3
2 2 2 5 2 3
2 2 5 0 0 7
2 2 6 3 3 0
2 2 6 1 2 3
2 2 8 0 1 3
2 2 8 2 1 1
2 2 9 0 0 3
2 2 10 1 1 0
2 3 3 4 3 1
2 3 5 1 2 3
2 3 5 0 0 6
2 3 6 3 1 1
2 3 7 3 1 0
2 4 2 2 4 2
2 4 4 1 3 2
2 4 5 2 3 0
2 4 6 0 2 2
2 4 6 2 1 1
2 4 6 2 1 1
2 4 6 0 1 3
2 4 7 1 2 0
2 5 5 2 1 1
2 5 6 2 0 1
2 5 8 0 1 0
2 5 8 0 1 0
2 6 5 1 2 0
3 0 10 1 1 1
3 1 8 0 2 2
3 2 8 1 0 2
3 2 11 0 0 0
3 3 5 4 1 0
3 3 9 1 0 0
3 4 1 3 0 5
3 4 2 2 2 3
3 4 4 2 2 0
3 4 5 1 2 1
3 4 5 0 1 3
3 5 4 1 2 1
3 5 7 1 0 0
3 6 2 2 1 2
3 6 4 2 0 1
3 6 4 1 2 0
3 7 4 1 1 0
4 1 9 0 2 0
4 5 5 2 0 0