The Tournament Winners & Losers
The Tournament Winners & Losers
Best ball is decided at the extremes. This page ignores the middle and shows only the outliers from Best Ball Mania 2021–2025: the league-winners & great picks (👑 40%+ and 🔥 30–40% advance — roughly 2× the 16.7% baseline) and the disasters (💀 under 8% — drafters’ odds cut in half). Who were they each year, where were they drafted, and what did they look like on draft day — age, experience, new team, prior-year injury, NFL pedigree? Slice by position and season with the tabs — and flip the Lens to Solid picks (20–30%) to see the steady contributors that beat the baseline without a true outlier season (where the TE story really lives).
Where the outliers were drafted
The league-winners & great picks
Every 👑/🔥 pick — with its profile and whether it beat its ADP. Value (rounds) is based on his season finish: we compare his ADP to where that finish is normally drafted (the ADP of the Nth player at his position — an RB1 finish is worth the 1st RB’s ADP). +, value = finished better than his cost · −, reach = overdrafted for his finish.
The disasters
Every 💀 pick (under 8% advance) — the teams these sank. Same profile columns, so you can see what the busts had in common.
The measurables — winners vs disasters
Share of each group in a bucket — gold = the elite picks (30%+), red = the disasters (<8%). Where gold sits higher, that trait skews toward tournament-winners. New team / injury exclude rookies; injury = missed 5+ games the prior season.