First Round Compensation (Part Two)

For background information on the purpose and methodology please check out part one. Between the 2000 and 2010 drafts, 171 players netted teams a collective 219 first round compensatory picks; or roughly 15 players per offseason. The average percentage of plate appearances or innings pitched spent with the benefiting teams comes in at 37.9%. Meaning, simply, that fewer than 50% of the playing time is coming with the teams collecting those draft picks. Now, this data is skewed a bit. As mentioned in part one, this focused only on first round picks. Including second round picks might raise that number towards 50%, but maybe not. This look also makes no effort to separate first time free agents (in the truest sense) from those veterans who qualified for free agency compensation multiple times through the timeline. I do not believe the latter to be a fatal mistake because the entire point is to show how flawed the first round compensation system is, and those free agent lifers play a b...