With interest in trying to determine where the best and brightest players come from, I wrote a story last winter analyzing the best 100 hitters and pitchers based on OPS and ERA, and broke down the levels from which those players were originally procured. You may visit that story by following this link:

http://www.brewerfan.net/ViewArticle.do?articleId=198

While I think I found some common trends that could be followed in building a Major-League franchise from the bottom up, the one part about the story that bothered me was the true success rate of draftees, more specifically, those drafted in the first-round. I did determine that the largest portion of talented players in all of baseball were procured from the first-round of the MLB draft, but that only confirmed that the best players for the most part were being drafted where they should be. I would imagine that if you broke down the best and brightest players from the NFL you would find that more good players come from the first-round, with the talent dwindling as you moved down the individual rounds of the draft.

I also determined in that story that more successful positional players had been drafted from the first round than pitchers, and that the difference between high school pitchers and college pitchers wasn