Guess the Number - What percent of Users Draft in X Month?

Here are a couple of stats that I found interesting that I needed for my own personal projects that I thought the community might find interesting.

I needed to get a quick estimate of when fantasy football users draft. For this I found over 35,000 Sleeper leagues and used the Sleeper API to find when they drafted.

Here is each month:

  • January: 151 leagues (0.42%)
  • February: 370 (1.03%)
  • March: 515 (1.43%)
  • April: 4,658 (12.93%)
  • May: 9,214 (25.57%)
  • June: 3,801 (10.56%)
  • July: 4,302 (11.94%)
  • August: 8,599 (23.88%)
  • September: 3,875 (10.76%)
  • October: 225 (0.62%)
  • November: 191 (0.53%)
  • December: 112 (0.31%)

I have two thoughts based on this:

  1. This may be skewed towards the summer months as Sleeper takes on more dynasty users IMO
  2. Who is drafting in November - January and why?