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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maggot" data-source="post: 2766660" data-attributes="member: 1005">If you go with 4d6 drop 1 rolls, you should come up with an average point buy of about 33 which is the same as when you do 4d6drop1 seven times and drop the lowest of those.  I've played in a couple campaigns that have this extra drop.The draft spreads the scores out so not all lucky scores are with one player.  I'm not sure why my draft had the bard at 27pts while everyone else was at 35+.In any case, the selection of the initial draftable scores is what determines the average point-buy level, not the presence or absence of the wild column.  One could generate the array of scores in Excel or a program and calculate the average PB based on the fact that the lowest 6 scores will go undrafted.  Then you could regenerate the array until you had a PB average that you liked.</blockquote>