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Originally Posted by troutman
I think 40 points is an exaggeration. Can someone do the math on 1 + 40 vs. 20 + 21 last year?
Some of us have other restrictions - for example, I normally will never pick a Canuck, Oilers or Hab (learned my lesson last year). Other people (Windom), have no conscience at all.
No mandatory goalies.
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Assuming the drafting was flawless and everyone knew exactly where players would end up in the points race at the end of the year:
someone picking 1-44, etc for 11 rounds last year would be ~20-25 points ahead of someone picking 22-23.
The top 5 had a little bit of an advantage, and after that 6-22 would all be within ~5 points of each other.
Again, that's assuming that at draft time everyone knew exactly where players would end up. Chances of someone picking Corey Perry in the top 3 or 5 would have been pretty slim. Players like Selanne, Giroux, Eriksson, could have easily been taken in rounds 3 or later, throwing the whole thing off.
I think the snake draft is the fairest way to do it. We'll all just have to berate the people in the top-5 who take the Sedins.