SDMB OOTP Draft History: Team Performance

Here's how the 12 franchises have done over the years in the draft. This is based on the VORP accumulated, through the end of the 2018 season, by each player drafted by the team. It disregards what team the player played for when accumulating these stats.

A big proviso when looking at this data is that it's not corrected at all for draft position. Teams drafting early would be expected to do better than teams drafting late. And, with all of the trades in our league, it's not as easy as looking at records and divining draft position from them. I'm going to try to figure out at some point how to correct for draft position, but it's a bit of a chore, really.

Anyway, this still seemed kind of fun to me, so here goes.

Brooklyn: Drafted 154 players. Total VORP of 1469.0 over 220 major league seasons. Averages of 6.7 VORP per major league season and 9.5 per draft pick. Best pick: Miguel Cuesta, 2005 round 1, pick 6, 455.9 VORP over 13 years (69.9/year).

Cleveland: Drafted 145 players. Total VORP of 2190.5 over 214 major league seasons. Averages of 10.2 VORP per major league season and 15.1 per draft pick. Best pick: Isaac Diehl, 2006 round 2, pick 14, 404.0 VORP over 10 years (40.4/year). (Although Grondin will likely pass Diehl in a year or two.)

Danville: Drafted 167 players. Total VORP of 2876.0 over 244 major league seasons. Averages of 11.8 VORP per major league season and 17.2 per draft pick. Best pick: John Hukill, 2005, round 1, pick 8, 747.9 VORP over 11 years (68.0/year).

Hickory: Drafted 140 players. Total VORP of 2587.5 over 208 major league seasons. Averages of 12.4 VORP per major league season and 18.5 per draft pick. Best pick: Dong Lutz, 2006, round 1, pick 1, 730.5 over 13 years (56.2/year).

Houston: Drafted 171 players. Total VORP of 1346.1 over 284 major league seasons. Averages of 4.7 VORP per major league season and 7.9 per draft pick. Best pick: Herman Gossard, 2006, round 1, pick 5, 408.2 over 11 years (37.2/year).

Maui: Drafted 144 players. Total VORP of 3607.6 over 236 major league seasons. Averages of 15.3 VORP per major league season and 25.0 per draft pick. Best pick: Juan Villatoro, 2007 Round 1, pick 4, 599.7 VORP over 10 seasons (60.0/year).

Monck's Corner: Drafted 167 players. Total VORP of 3708.3 over 290 major league seasons. Averages of 12.7 VORP per major league season and 22.2 per draft pick. Best pick: Patrick Valdes, round 1, pick 4, 567.8 VORP over 12 years (47.3). Although, Rufus Murry may take that crown in a few years (409.8 VORP over 7 years through 2018).

New York: Drafted 148 players. Total VORP of 2517.4 over 213 major league seasons. Averages of 11.8 VORP per major league season and 17.9 per draft pick. Best pick: Ronald Placencia, 2004, round 2, pick 21, 696.3 VORP over 10 years (69.6/year).

Ohio: Drafted 159 players. Total VORP of 2425.0 over 233 major league seasons. Averages of 10.4 VORP per major league season and 15,3 per draft pick. Best picks: Ed Scull, 2003 round 1 pick 6, 388.5 VORP over 13 years (29.9/year) and Sabas Delvalle, 2004, round 1 pick 1, 312.5 VORPO over 10 years (31.2/year).

Saskatoon: Drafted 147 players. Total VORP of 2468.8 over 188 major league seasons. Averages of 13.1 VORP per major league season and 16.8 per draft pick. Best pick: Brian Frison, 2004 round 1 pick 2, 816.9 VORP over 11 years (74.3/year).

Seattle: Drafted 160 players. Total VORP of 2936.1 over 229 major league seasons. Averages of 12.8 VORP per major league season and 18.4 per draft pick. Best pick: Christopher Hester, 2004 round 3 pick 27, 630.4 VORP over 11 years (57.3/year).

Shackamaxon: Drafted 158 players. Total VORP of 1189.9 over 168 major league seasons. Averages of 7.1 VORP per major league season and 7.5 per draft pick. Best pick: Bill Turek, 2005 round 1, pick 11, 337.9 VORP over 12 years (28.2/year).