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Originally Posted by wireframe
But it does make sense to compare the player picked if you assume that teams have similar lists, which is a fair assumption early in the draft. A second round pick can't have a set value because each draft if unique.
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Which you really can't because there's no way to tell who valued who to what degree. Each team's pick will affect the ones proceeding it making it a completely subjective and arbitrary. A 2nd round value being equal to a Wotherspoon or a Kucherov is an extreme spectrum to be moving between.
Add in the differences of organizational scouting resources, league priorities, characteristics and attributes ranking and to some varying degree of positional need influence and you're already using something barely related.
Bottom line, the scouting and development of other teams, something you have little to not influence over should not be measured in determining the value of a pick.
Fans might not know of a quantifiable value of picks but can use historical data from the players picked in that range as well as previous trades using similar picks as basis.
The unknown and specific pick-turned-prospect is a narrow and arbitrary way of rating a trade.