Hi again,
There are Midpricers, and then there are Midpricers.
The large percentage of them are very VERY speculative, and then there are the calculated risk types.
Example Aaron Sandilands 2014.
Opened $310,700 and played a 21/108 season. It was the 4th best Ruck average for the season, and 2 of the 3 averages above him only played 17 & 12 games for the season. He had the 2nd best total points scored for a Ruck with 2,269 points, behind Jacobs 2,538, but ahead of Goldy's 2,244 (21/106). Sandi was coming off seasons of 7/64, 12/113, 13/111. His game counts were horrible, and his most recent season also had bad scoring (with excuses). He probably needed to average 88-90, and string together at least 6 or 7 games, to be called a successful pick. Obviously his most recent season caused many people concern, and he started in, from memory, around 45-50% of teams. While he was lower risk, than taking a similar priced 3rd/4th year Def, at a similar price, there was still a pretty high risk factor. The only potential cover was Tom Derickx, who didn't play Round 1, but did play Rounds 2 to 8, and was pretty much the only Rookie Ruck to play that early in 2014. You had to be lucky to pick him. He didn't play Round 1!!!
Let's call Sandi a 40-50% chance of being a good pick. You don't find many midpricers that have that sort of hope of being a good pick, before Round 1, and nearly all of them are injured Prems,
with more than 1 year of good scoring, making a comeback. There isn't bundles of players fitting that description in any given season.
Let's say you start a team with 6 Midpricers, which is well short of the optimum team number of Midpricers. Let's say 2 of them fit the Sandi decription, and the other 4 are more speculative. Give the Sandi types a 45% chance of success, and the speculatives a 20% chance of success. Now I suggest to you, that 20% is being ridiculously generous. Check this link to see why:
Questions For Rowsus, page 158, post #3,143
When you are playing Midpricers, you need around 50% of them (or a little better) to succeed, just to break even. If you can get that % up to 60-65%+, you are probably in front. So you have 2 x 45% chances, and 4 x 20% chances. What are the odds you will end up with 3+ successful picks?
Chances of 0 successful picks = 12.39%
Chances of 1 successful pick = 32.67%
Chances of 2 successful picks = 33.21%
Chances of 3 successful picks = 16.67%
Chances of 4+ successful picks = 5.06%
So if you have the 6 Midpricers as described above, you are a 78.27% chance of regretting it, a 16.67% chance of breaking even, and 5.06 chance, of calling it a success. Please remember, a 20% success rate for these speculative picks is incredibly generous. If you drop the speculatives down to 10%, the chance of breaking even is 8.42%, and the chances of success is 1.25%. Success doesn't mean you won SC, it just means those selections were successful, or not, as a group of players in your team.
You may also be interested in:
The Recent History Of Mid Priced Defs
Unfortunately, the tables are blurred, as I used a different method back then, but the summaries are still there.