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Originally Posted by Bingo
Counting the frequency of events is equal across all players and all teams, they're not used to pad any one team or player. That's just silly.
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But it's not Bingo. You have to be able to see just that. The variables are different by the organizational context. In this particular measure some teams just have a complete logjam of talent that means draft picks are not going to get opportunity. Conversely, talent poor teams are going to have players with greater opportunity. And yes, some teams are going to have the appearance of drafting better with this games played measure because they have openings where players will enter early.
Buffalo has already had 13 of 39 drafted players play games since 2015, Los Angeles 12 of 42, New Jersey 20 of 50, Ottawa 14 of 41, Vancouver 12 of 41, Edmonton 10 of 39, Calgary 8 of 37. Ottawa has had 11 of 14 play 30 games or more! The poor players tend to cycle bodies through trying to see what they have. The better teams are much more conservative in this regard. Tampa has seen only 5 of 48 draftees have seen time with the Lightning, but another four of their picks have already found their way into the lineup of with other teams! What is interesting is this is cyclical for most teams, and they will appear to draft poorly when they are good, and then draft way better when they are bad.
One last comment on the Flames games per pick stat, and I hope we agree on this, it really helps those players increase the number of games played when there is no one pushing from below. When the system is weak the competition is limited and the upward pressure is non-existent. It also helps when the market has priced players out of the range of what could replace the younger player's production (and this is good thing for those players and their play) or the cap prevents bringing in other players that may kick a younger player to the curb. Again, more variables that greatly influence these measures.