[quote author=Ralphis link=topic=511.msg4904#msg4904 date=1317929386]<br />Has anyone ever found any correlation between draft position and success while taking &quot;captain skill&quot; (hard to quantify) into account? Is there any proof of what system is better than another?<br /><br />In lieu of such information, I say keep the original system! It worked fine for years and produced teams that were competitive throughout the entire draft. Sometimes things don&#039;t have to be changed for the sake of being cute<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Pretty much what I was going to say. There&#039;s too many shifting circumstances and variables to go ahead and say: &quot;This is how it works and it&#039;s not working more often than it is working so let&#039;s change it&quot;, because there&#039;s very few static connections you could draw statistics from. As it stands the order of the draft picks I feel can be consequential but at the same time there has been a history of captains who make those picks work, and work very well.