When I looked at the winner's team Caleb Windsor Knot (CWK) across the season, my first thought was that it wasnt that different to my squad as it evolved across the season.
But I finished a lousy 36,086th and was more than 4000 points behind.
With some help from
@Beg2Differ - thanks again - I was able to run a few comparative macros over my files.
A few observations from that analysis..
* The winner used 67 different players across the season - I had used 43 of them - an overlap of about 64%
There are about 5-7 meaningless players in the CWK squad (Gibcus, Drury, Hardeman etc) so the meaningful overlap is probably around 70%
* We started 19 of the same players - the number fluctuated but the average overlap was about 17.5 players.
* if you do the raw overlap - 24 rounds by 30 players - my team overlapped 417 times out of 720 - nearly 58%
* the overlap of just the scoring players is approx 61%
Now I did some dumb things with captains & emergencies that probably cost me 200-300 points but thats peanuts compared to the 4,000 pt deficit.
I'm still trying to grasp how I could get that far behind - I think its fair to say that the winner and I were mostly on the same wavelength - so without examing the individual player differences too much, you'd that the "unique" players we respectively used wouldn't be that different.
Moreover not every divergence would be a case whereby the winner got a better result... eg I started Xerri and Heeney whereas CWK used early trades on them, I started Nick Martin and didnt waste trades (CWK dropped him after R1 and brought him back in R4)
One rationalisation is that being 4,000 points behind means my total score represents about 92.3% of the winners total..
BUT - It still seems like that gap is ginormous..
