Yup, but you need to recognize it's a very simplistic move that you're pulling. You're shifting the object of analysis from a player's quality/performance, which generally can be measured in fairly objective terms through a combination of the eye test and stats, to a shifting, imaginary "context" that you have to invent in your head.
Pretty much what was done with the Granlund trade, where rather than directly comparing the performance/quality of Granlund and Shinkaruk, a contingent of posters began inventing a "context" to the deal, in which Shinkaruk was "worth" in their opinion a lot more than Granlund—which sure, you can argue, but it's your opinion at the end of the day; you will never know how a player is valued league-wide unless you're in the phone calls, though some posters here simply can't accept this lack of access, and act as if they can get into those phone calls through pure reason and critical analysis, which as someone coming from a field that does this as their job, is a laughable over-estimation of their intellectual powers, which are probably stifled in real life, so they take it out on this board, in extended intellectual self-pleasuring which nobody except them and their devoted followers actually read, but build a little, pathetic to outsiders, bubble in which they are "critical" compared to the average fan. It is amusing sometimes though.
