Quote:
Originally Posted by GullFoss
I'm just saying that from a risk-reward standpoint, it made more sense to keep Valimaki over Mackey. One guy is 24, with a potentially a high ceiling. The other player is 26 with a "meh" ceiling. To take the meh player because he's played a better "last 80 games" over the guy with substantially more upside (and at 24 y/o, more time to reach that upside) is really odd asset management to me, especially when you're talking about a #8 defensemen.
It's like if I gave you the choice of 50% chance of winning $100 or a 10% chance of winning $100,000. Assuming you're not in a rough financial position, the correct decision is typically to take the option with a higher expected value.
|
Overthinking this. Valimaki was terrible during preseason and they had they had been shopping him around. He had the larger cap hit and it was hoped that protected him. Only 1 club put the claim on