To be honest, I’m always looking for something I can spreadsheet about, especially when it comes to baseball.
After the lockout last year, when the slot for the number one pick was reported, as well as how much the total pool was expected to be, I thought it would be fun to tackle an exercise I had never done before—estimating the draft pool.
It took a lot of perfecting over a few months, but when all was said and done, I ended up being a mere $1,400 off and estimating the Pittsburgh Pirates’ pool exactly—before they changed the slot values right at draft time to equal exactly $280 million that is.