Having the first overall pick proved fortuitous this season, as 10 teams won titles from the #1 slot. Interestingly, for the 2nd straight year, no team drafting 11th won a league title.



The 1st 3 choices of the 10 teams that won with the first pick:

Prague Defenestrators (Conshellation Prize) Miggy, Stanton, Felix
Bay City Rollers (Go Big or Go Home) Miggy, Kershaw, Bruce
That's Not Very Maybin (Original Recipe) Braun, McCutchen, Kershaw
Montgomery Biscuits (RCL 21) Pujols, Kershaw, Stanton
Bull City Bombers (RCL 22) Miggy, Verlander, Lee
. captainpyper. (RCL 3) Miggy, Beltre, Pence
Miami Dark Passengers (Schmohawk in Training) Pujoils, Lawrie, Lee
* uziguzi * (Soylent green is Allbright....) Pujols, McCutchen, Kershaw
Blue Heaven (Sphinctory Staff Inflection) Kemp, Pence, Kershaw
Team bjorklund (The Dread Pirate Returns) Miggy, Stanton, Granderson

2011
Draft Slot/ # of Champions

1. 2
2. 3
3. 1
4. 1
5. 5
6. 3
7. 4
8. 7
9. 2
10. 6
11. 0
12. 5

I love this kind of data. The distribution is very different this year.

Agreed, this is great data! You didn't want 11th this year, I guess...

Not only did you not want to draft 11th, but you didn't want to draft outside the 1st 4 picks, generally. 1-4 produced 26 winners while 5-12 only produced 22 total. And 10-12 only produced 3 winners (I happened to be one of them...I went 10th).