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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2173434, member: 199"] vowelguy - in 2016 there were a total of 21 'rookies' who played at least one game in the WNBA and at least one of those was a 2015 grad (Simmons.) So you can knock out around 16 of the draftees in training camp and another 5-10 are hanging by a thread. It makes the staying power of players like Faris and Swanier, and Jessica Moore even more impressive. bballnut90 - The actual number of W 'players' in any year is probably closer to 160 with injures and short contracts (Jasmine Lister played on two ten day contracts two years ago as an injury replacement.) Not sure what the average career length in the W is, but I doubt it is over 5 years, but for players that last at least 2 years it probably quickly rises to around 8 - meaning there is a lot of churn at the beginning. (The average career in the NFL is somewhere around 4 years.) [/QUOTE]