Some stats on last year’s rookies. I’m adopting the definition of rookie as anyone from the Number#1 pick down – as per the suggestion of Wheedus in Post #71.
I’m focussing on Starting rookies and am stretching that to all who played their first game for the season before Round 7. And I’m tracking them across their first 7 games – so rounds 1-7 for someone playing R1 or rounds 6-12 for someone starting in R6.
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Count – the number of rookies playing their first game of the season in the given round.
All 7 – the number who played in all 7 available games
Over 4 - the number who played in 4-7 of the available games
$150K – the number who made $150K at the end of 7 rounds
$100K - the number who made $100K at the end of 7 rounds
$100K% - the percentage who made $100K at the end of 7 rounds.
The star performers,
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I’m focussing on Starting rookies and am stretching that to all who played their first game for the season before Round 7. And I’m tracking them across their first 7 games – so rounds 1-7 for someone playing R1 or rounds 6-12 for someone starting in R6.
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Count – the number of rookies playing their first game of the season in the given round.
All 7 – the number who played in all 7 available games
Over 4 - the number who played in 4-7 of the available games
$150K – the number who made $150K at the end of 7 rounds
$100K - the number who made $100K at the end of 7 rounds
$100K% - the percentage who made $100K at the end of 7 rounds.
The star performers,
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Lots of 50s and 60s in there.
Edit: I have a theory that the R1 debutants are typically the best of the bunch (on average, obviously).
There seems to be some evidence of that from a cash gen perspective (c 44% in R1 vs c 30% thereafter), but not as wide a gap as I would have expected.
Perhaps the R2 reset changes things up a bit in 2020.