You refuse to recognize that you are making two fundemental assumptions.
1) the distribution of high end talent is the same in all sports.
2) that there are no discontinuities in the draft.
The second one is the easiest to address. Generational players or even elite players are discontinuities. Their value is significantly higher than any statisical model can suggest because there arent enough crosbys to be significant. The model states that drafting Crosby and Drafting Yakupov has the same value. So if at any point there is a non normal drop off in talent the model doesnt account for it.
To illustrate the first point if we lowered the draft age to 10 the value between the 1st pick and the 10th pick ate equal. At the age of 10 we have very little predictive power so using your table to trade picks would fail.
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