With one full season played since the 2010 draft it’s possible to begin to evaluate how teams performed. Although the true strength of the draft can’t be found until several years later, it is possible to get an idea of which teams were winners and which were losers right from the get-go.
In part one of an ongoing series that CSN will be undertaking between now and the 2011 draft we will attempt to quantify draft performance by clubs. Ultimately, we will aim to rank each MLS team on their all-time draft performance.
The formula will look at the average amount of games a player drafted in each round played. Using that number as a base of what should be expected a team’s draft pick is given a +/- number – i.e. if the average games played was 15 and the draft pick played 20 games he will be given a +5. If a team did not draft in the round it is considered to have generated zero games played and will be given a minus number reflecting that .
The higher the number a team receives the better it is considered to have drafted. Ties are broken first by the amount of plus players drafted and then by the highest plus drafted.
The results of the 2010 draft after the jump:
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The average first round draft pick in the 2010 played 14 games for the team that selected them. In the second round it dropped to 5.93. The third round saw an average of 5.18 games played per pick and in the final round the average was 3.5. For the purpose of this exercise we will round the numbers off to 14, 6, 5 and 4.
No ranking system is perfect, but what this tries to do is place a value on a resource and then evaluate whether the club got what it was supposed to. As we move forward “home run” picks and bombs will have more of an effect on the +/- ranking. That’s fair because the value of the lost resource grows each year.
The rankings for 2010 are:
1- New England +22
- Zack Schilawski +11
- Seth Sinovic +11
- Zak Boggs +3
- Jason Griffiths +1
- Adam Welch -4
2- New York +19
- Tony Tchani +13
- Austin da Luz -14
- Tim Ream +24
- Conor Chinn E
- Irving Garcia -4
3- Dallas +12
- Zach Loyd +10
- Andrew Wiedeman -6
- Jason Yeisley E
- Eric Alexander +12
- Dane Saintus -4
4- Philly +10
- Danny Mwanga +10
- Amobi Okugo -3
- Jack McInerney +3
- Toni Ståhl -5
- Kyle Nakazawa +9
- Brian Perk -4
5- Chicago +6
- Corben Bone -9
- Kwame Watson-Siriboe +4
- Drew Yates -6
- Steven Kinney +8
- Sean Johnson +9
6- Chivas -3
- Blair Gavin +2
- No 2nd round pick -6
- Kevin Tangney -5
- Isaac Kissi -5
- Ben Zemanski +15
7- Kansas City -3
- Teal Bunbury +12
- Olukorede Aiyegbusi -1
- Nick Cardenas -5
- Mauro Fuzetti -5
- Ofori Sarkodie -4
- Chris Ross -4
8- Galaxy -7
- Michael Stephens +8
- No 2nd round pick -6
- No 3rd round pick -5
- No 4th round pick -4
9- DC United -9
- No 1st round pick -14
- No 2nd round pick -6
- No 3rd round pick -5
- Jordan Graye +16
10- Toronto -18
- No 1st round pick -14
- Zachary Herold -6
- No 3rd round pick -5
- Joseph Nane +7
11- Seattle -18
- David Estrada -11
- Mike Seamon +2
- No 3rd round pick -5
- Jamel Wallace -4
12- Salt Lake -18
- Collen Warner -4
- Justin Davis -6
- Chris Schuler -4
- Kris Banghart -4
13- San Jose -21
- Ike Opara -3
- Michael Thomas -6
- Steven Beitashour -4
- Justin Morrow +1
- Andrew Hoxie -5
- No 4th round pick -4
14- Colorado -29
- No 1st round pick -14
- Andre Akpan -5
- Ross LaBauex -1
- Chad Borak -5
- Chris Cutshaw -4
15- Houston -32
- No 1st round pick -14
- No 2nd round pick -6
- Samuel Appiah -3
- David Walker - 5
- Euan Holden -4
16- Columbus -36
- Dilly Duka -11
- Bright Dike -14
- No 2nd round pick -6
- No 3rd round pick -5
- Kwaku Nyamekye -4
- Shaun Francis +8
- Othaniel Yanez -4
We will look at 2009 (and the combined 2009-2010 rankings next week).