History will ultimately determine success but a couple points about Bader
- He's not aligned to any one team or fan base and thus his rankings are pretty objective
- He takes a data science approach to how he ranks prospects and projects their future. One can debate his models, but what I like about seeing this is it suggests the Flames are leaning into analytics and that could be what's driving some of their improved drafting. Bader doesn't really care where other publications have someone ranked, or aggregated views or anything - from what I understand he applies his models and that defines the majority of his projections.
- The open question would then be are they doing the same within pro scouting where the decisions, historically, are more questionable for sure.
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