To be fair, he does recognize some of the blindspots of the model such as missing on defensive wizards, I don't think he buys into Sanderson's offense, which that model is biased towards. Heck, he basically says anything less than Slavin would be a terrible miss with a pick that high which to me suggests he undervalued Slavin.
Yeah, this is a good piece of context. Between 2010-2015, there's probably an average of around two guys per year who is on par with/better than Slavin per year between the 3rd & 10th slot... and most of them are F.
Marner, Draisaitl, Rantanen, Huberdeau, Werenski, Ehlers, Jones, Nurse, Lindholm, Scheifele, Couturier, Hamilton are the guys who some might consider better/on par with Slavin but personally I would take Slavin over about half of them. Only clearly superior players IMO are the first 4 forwards. When you raise the cutoff to 5, you could eliminate almost half of those guys and are left with Rantanen as the only clearly better player (imo).
If Sanderson becomes Slavin.... holy shit man, we're set. And I think most would acknowledge this, as Slavin has been between 5th-20th in Norris voting every year of his career outside of his rookie season.
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