NHL Team Prospects and Prospect Rankings Thread

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

I care. If I want to know who has young talent already in the NHL, I can watch them playing easily enough. Lists that are strictly for prospects help me keep tabs on what each team still has in the pipeline.

The problem is that you have to draw lines for who counts and who doesn't - arbitrary choices that result in some players falling through the cracks (like the list in this thread).

Nothing arbitrary about age - everyone is on the list.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The problem is that you have to draw lines for who counts and who doesn't - arbitrary choices that result in some players falling through the cracks (like the list in this thread).

Nothing arbitrary about age - everyone is on the list.

What age you choose for the cutoff is arbitrary. The criteria for Calder eligibility are arbitrary.

The problem with the list we’ve been discussing is not that the criteria are arbitrary, but that they don’t apply the same criteria to every team. There are many valid ways to make a list like this, but you have to pick one and stick to it.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

What age you choose for the cutoff is arbitrary. The criteria for Calder eligibility are arbitrary.

The problem with the list we’ve been discussing is not that the criteria are arbitrary, but that they don’t apply the same criteria to every team. There are many valid ways to make a list like this, but you have to pick one and stick to it.

The age you choose is arbitrary, but consistent - no one fall through the cracks. Everyone counts, until they graduate by age.

Simple, clear, and consistent. Nothing else is as clean and consistent.

Anyway, enough of this.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by DJones

Main problem was trying to guess who was graduated in October. Yakemchuk and Iginla counting but Parekh not is always going to give some weird rankings.

That and the scoring system rewards AHL depth a lot. Two middle six winger projections are worth 40% more than Celebrini would be.

Interesting list but not how I would rank them at all. A true elite talent should be worth like 40 points on this scale.

Is that how the rankings work? At the beginning didn’t he say that not including Parekh dropped the Flames from 9th to 18th or something like that?