Pat Daugherty

Value by position — where the value came from (descriptive)

Pos	Picks	fWAR	DVOS
OF	7	78	+72.5
IF	5	77	+64.4
P	23	54	+31.9
C	2	5	+1.1

Position from each player's primary MLB fielding spot; never-MLB picks excluded. This table is descriptive, not a skill ranking — per-position DVOS isn't reliable at this granularity (split-half ≈ 0 for P/OF, a small-sample mirage for C). The one reliable position cut is Hitter vs Pitcher: drafting hitters (C/IF/OF) above slot repeats (split-half +0.54, the KPI above), but drafting pitchers above slot does not (≈ 0) — so we rank Hitter DVOS and leave pitcher out.

Top picks — who drove the value

Yr	Ovr	Player	Pos	fWAR	Exp	DVOS
1995	8	Todd Helton	1B	54.9	9.2	+45.7
1998	210	Matt Holliday	OF	49.5	0.8	+48.7
1998	390	Juan Pierre	OF	24.0	0.3	+23.7
1997	132	Chone Figgins	3B	22.1	0.8	+21.3
1996	21	Jake Westbrook	P	18.1	5.0	+13.2
1997	70	Aaron Cook	P	16.7	1.9	+14.8
1999	16	Jason Jennings	P	13.7	5.8	+7.9
1998	71	Jody Gerut	OF	6.5	1.9	+4.6
1999	100	Josh Bard	C	4.6	1.0	+3.5
1996	86	Shawn Chacon	P	2.3	1.0	+1.3
1998	120	Luke Hudson	P	2.1	1.0	+1.1
1996	1136	Adam Bernero	P	1.1	0.1	+1.0
1999	850	Justin Hampson	P	1.0	0.1	+1.0
1997	162	Justin Miller	P	0.9	0.8	+0.1
1998	450	Mark DiFelice	P	0.7	0.2	+0.4

Year	Picks	fWAR	Expected	DVOS
1994	56	-1.2	18.9	-20.1
1995	58	55.5	24.8	+30.7
1996	51	21.5	17.0	+4.4
1997	47	39.5	17.0	+22.6
1998	49	80.4	21.6	+58.8
1999	49	18.9	17.5	+1.4
Total	310	215	–	+97.9

DVOS = Σ (a pick's career fWAR − the expected fWAR for that overall slot), credited to the scouting director SABR lists for that draft. We only attribute years with one unambiguous director on record; years where SABR lists multiple names (handoffs/overlaps) or none are left out, so a director's record here may skip years he was involved in — see the coverage note on the leaderboard. Single drafts are noise-dominated — one star swamps a class — so read the multi-year totals, not any one year. Full method on the DVOS page.

Value by position — where the value came from (descriptive)

Top picks — who drove the value

By draft class