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It's the moment we've all been waiting for: the reveal of the RSL Soapbox Expansion Draft Reader Poll Protected List-apalooza™.
The community protected list, in order of most-protected to least-protected is as follows:
Plata
Rimando
Beckerman
Schuler
Gil
Salcedo
Morales
Jaime
Mulholland
Saborio
Beltran
Now, if we look back at the contributor protected list, it's actually basically the same, although there was a further degree of unanimity to that poll. The decisions here were more split.
| Player | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Attinella | 14.12% |
| Beckerman | 98.82% |
| Beltran | 70.59% |
| Borchers | 45.88% |
| Findley | 3.53% |
| Garcia | 29.41% |
| Gil | 90.59% |
| Grabavoy | 30.59% |
| Jaime | 72.94% |
| Mansally | 5.88% |
| Maund | 1.18% |
| Morales | 74.12% |
| Mulholland | 72.94% |
| Plata | 100.00% |
| Rimando | 100.00% |
| Saborio | 71.76% |
| Salcedo | 78.82% |
| Schuler | 96.47% |
| Stertzer | 1.18% |
| Velasquez | 29.41% |
| Wingert | 8.24% |
No players were really on the edge of selection; Tony Beltran finished 11th here with 71 percent of the vote, and Nat Borchers finished 12th with 46 percent of the vote. That gulf in selection lends some certainty to our selections, but it makes a statement about the nature of depth at Real Salt Lake.
One final look at the data here: the percentage of lists that protected a given player.
| Player | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Plata | 100.00% |
| Rimando | 100.00% |
| Beckerman | 98.82% |
| Schuler | 96.47% |
| Gil | 90.59% |
| Salcedo | 78.82% |
| Morales | 74.12% |
| Jaime | 72.94% |
| Mulholland | 72.94% |
| Saborio | 71.76% |
| Beltran | 70.59% |
| Borchers | 45.88% |
| Grabavoy | 30.59% |
| Garcia | 29.41% |
| Velasquez | 29.41% |
| Attinella | 14.12% |
| Wingert | 8.24% |
| Mansally | 5.88% |
| Findley | 3.53% |
| Maund | 1.18% |
| Stertzer | 1.18% |