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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's only relative if you are looking at straight numbers and not the variables they represent. Your argument is flawed. If you looked at the curve of the top 200 NFL players drafted compared to the top 200 NHL players drafted over the years you would see that the 2nd round in the NFL produces nearly just as many quality players over the long haul as the 1st round and the curve would be relatively flat starting to decline slowly at the 3rd round to the 4th round. In the NHL the curve would drop steeply after only the top 10 picks of the first round. Therefore you can plainly see that a 2nd round pick in the NFL is not relative to the the worth of an NHL 2nd round pick.
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I understand what you are trying to say, but that is a qualitative statement, not a statistical relation.
Again, I will use the height distribution example I used before: the differences in height between Philipino men is much less than the differences among European men. But that is irrelevant - standard deviation accounts for that.
I have stated my argument so I am done - I don't want to derail this thread any further.