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Originally Posted by Poster
Perhaps they do although I doubt they use this nonsense NHLe stat. However we aren’t talking about an NHL teams analysis, we are talking about your analysis that seems to rely solely on this made up stat.
Go ahead though and use it as you see fit. I just don’t think anyone else should.
Sorry to derail the conversation.
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It's not derailing. Made up stat? I suppose all stats are made up. I literally gave examples of WHY you should use data and gave some pretty strong examples.
Yeah, it's not 100% perfect - but nothing in the draft is, but data sets like NHLe (and whatever internal systems teams use) help teams avoid making terrible decisions that would otherwise be influenced by personal bias/emotion - or misguided preferences towards stuff like player size.
14th Overall: NHLe of 26 - Zemgus Girgensons
15th Overall: NHLe of 23 - Cody Ceci
16th Overall: NHLe of 14 - Tom Wilson
17th Overall: NHLe of 35 - Tomas Hertl
18th Overall: NHLe of 19 - Teuvo Teravainen
19th Overall: Goalie - Andrei Vasilevskiy
21st Overall: NHLe of 11 - Mark Jankowski
22nd Overall: NHLe of 13 - Olli Maata
The Flames traded down from 14, took the worst NHLe in that grouping, and ended up with the 2nd worst player on the list - as Girgensons busted. This was Feaster (emotional), Weisbrod (constantly trying to be the smartest guy in the room), and an inexperienced Conroy riding the hype train - using data would have helped them. It's also entirely possible that they ignored data sets at this time because they were bad at their jobs, or that the team hadn't invested in the field yet so they didn't have data sets to the "modern" level.
It's not perfect, but it's a nice guiding light.