2058 – IFA by the Final Numbers

[RonCo]

As folks might recall, I wrote a fairly detailed look at the IFA process for this year’s Media Guide. If you haven’t read it, yet, I’d suggest you do. The conceit of the article was that it was my attempt at pointing out that the old saw “it’s the rich getting richer” isn’t really right when applied to the IFA process. But when I wrote that, the process was still going on, so the final numbers weren’t in. Now, however, I think we can call it a day for the IFA (gotta love a rhyming bit, right?).

Of course, now that I've called it final, I'm sure someone will spend more. Because that's how this league rolls, am I right? Don't tell me when I'm done! I'll tell you when I'm done, thank you very much.

Regardless, here are some final numbers. Which I think are interesting.


Number 1: 86.7%
That’s what you get when you take the 113 players who were signed in IFA and divide it by the total pool of 129 players. 86.7%. I think that’s an interesting number.


Number 2: 102
That’s the number of players who were signed for $3.3M or less.
Of course, everyone knows about Klau Renders and his $40M price tag. But how many of us think about the 102 players who were signed to considerably more meager deals? Want another number? How about ninety? That’s the number of guys who were signed for $1M or less. So, no, the IFA process is not simply the rich getting richer.


Number 3: 138,836,820
That’s the number of dollars spent across the league on those 113 players.


Number 4: 26
That’s the number of BBA teams who acquired players in the IFA process.


Number 5: 22
That’s the number of players the Rocky Mountain signed. Almost a whole team, right?


Number 6: 7
That’s the number of teams who spent more than the $4.75M required to refrain from paying IFA tax. Of these, only four spent $8M or more.


So, yeah. That’s kinda fun to look at. Let me finish this little bit by posting the full listing of players signed and money spent by each team. Because, why not, right?

Team	Players	Spend
RMO	22	$3,339,499
BIK	15	$2,609,000
MEX	13	$4,749,249
SA	12	$4,350,000
HAW	7	$1,508,004
CCJ	5	$4,750,000
SAC	5	$2,059,333
NO	4	$13,311,000
MTL	4	$4,749,166
CLG	3	$4,670,000
VAL	3	$4,575,000
DM	3	$110,000
ATC	2	$5,000,000
EDM	2	$4,570,400
RCK	2	$3,690,000
JAX	1	$22,775,000
POR	1	$21,717,171
VAN	1	$8,000,000
NSH	1	$5,224,999
LBC	1	$4,959,000
SFB	1	$4,750,000
PHX	1	$4,749,999
LV	1	$800,000
TWC	1	$750,000
CHI	1	$600,000
CHA	1	$470,000
	113	$138,836,820

[Trebro]

I ended up getting outbidded on my targets so I opted to put that $$ to signing unsigned draftees and got several of them. we'll see if that works out for me.