Content to Traffic Ratio

Was just thinking of this, and obviously it will vary depending on the niche.

But if I was in the process of making an "Authority Site" and I published 100 different pages of content all focusing on a few longer tail keywords how much traffic would you expect me to receive without any seo done. All traffic through longtail keywords.

I'll probably try this soon and start a journey, but this was interesting to me.

To some extent your logic makes sense - traffic depends on ranking, and rankings depend on content. However, I think that you miss the fact that traffic (ranking) doesn't depend ONLY on content - it depends on a bunch of other things too.