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Old 07-21-2015, 12:27 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by dustygoon View Post
He says 77% chance he gets the guy he wants at 8 (werenski). How is he generating that probability? That 77% chance was the same before and after the Eichel pickv (duh). I say that because if he was running some model on his laptop, the odds would have changed slightly after the Eichel pick.
Interestingly, the number lines up really closely to the Bayesian probability NHL draft tool someone posted a while back.

http://donttellmeaboutheart.blogspot...lity-tool.html

If you go to the "Team" tab, and select Columbus as the team, Werenski has a 78.96% chance of being available. I wonder if they are just using this. Why reinvent the wheel?
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