Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Also, isn't Gaudreau's '9' meaningless unless we know what 9 gets us in return?
|
I don't think it has to be. If I rank him a 10, the top of the scale, you can infer that I believe his value is very high, you don't need to know the list of players I think he could be traded for fairly
$5 CDN is $5 CDN no matter what the USD exchange rate. Sure, on a grander scale relative values input to purchasing power, but for the purposes of this thought experiment it's just a way to rank players by perceived trade value.
It's about where they rank on their own team, not where they rank out of every player in the league.
Does Hamonic have higher value than Brodie? Does Janko have more value than Bennett? You don't need to be up on the rest of the league to answer those questions; if you were trading *for* them, how would you rank them?