I mean, if not, you should be monetizing the hell out of it and long since on an NHL payroll. Well, you probably should be anyway, since it is clearly doing at least as well as a number of well-paid scouts and executives.
Despite the results, it would be dismissed out of hand by those who consider drafting a science and an art... and by those who employ family, friends, and family and friends of family and friends as scouts.
If you want to make the case that he's some kind of drafting guru whose skill at drafting makes up for all his other deficiencies, then yes I expect pretty much 100%. At best you can say his results are in line with historical average.
If he could actually nail 100% of his first rounders, I would maybe be able to buy that he has some sort of special ability there. As it stands his results are no better than throwing darts.
A "difficult standard" is exactly the kind of standard a supposed drafting wizard should be held to.
I completely agree. A scouting guru must make the correct choice in situations that are both clear who the BPA is (like a Tkachuk over a Juolevi)... and unclear (like who to draft out of a Virtanen, Nylander, Ehlers, Ritcher). If a scouting guru can't, then he is not a scouting guru possessing a special talent.
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And I absolutely
expect the Canucks scouting staff to outperform posters here (let alone a bare minimum equation). If the Canucks scouting staff can't, then they are not justifying their paychecks. I don't know why any Canuck fan would deny this. The goal for a Canucks fan is for the Canucks to draft the best players they possibly can. The goal is not to protect the reputations of Benning and the scouting staff as best as a Canucks fan possibly can when presented with results that an equation or a given poster here produces.
The Canucks scouting staff run by Benning
must do significantly better than anyone on this board, or a math equation (not comparable, not worse, clearly
better) otherwise they are not utilizing their time and resources... and, otherwise, their entire existence as Canucks employees in the area of drafting
should be questioned.