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Originally Posted by nik-
Yeah, funny how every team gets exactly the guy they targeted in a 30 team draft.
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Nope. Some teams end up dealing out of the first round for two 2nd's when nobody they had high fell to them. Some teams deal down in the 1st because they aren't in love with the guys available and think they'll get the guy they like best a little further down in the 1st.
What you do get is a high % of teams that end up drafting a kid they had higher on their list than the position they selected him. And that happens because everybody has wildly different lists. As soon as an "off the board" pick goes, it pushes everybody down one.
When teams say, "we were shocked that kid was there, we had him really high on our list" they aren't BSing us. It is just the nature of the draft and the difference of opinion that leads to teams getting guys they had higher than other teams.
One example is our pick of Baertschi who was apparently ranked in our top 8 that year and we took at 13th.