Brock
Registered User
In Microsoft excel, I managed to enter some data for about 123 players eligible for this years NHL entry draft. That data entered being the rankings for these players by THN, Mckeens, CSB and ISS (the ones given by THN). I then averaged each players score out to come up with a top 100 for the upcoming draft.
Hopefully this is ok in terms of guidelines with copy enfringement, because I'm not giving out the exact rankings of those agencies, but an average score for those 4 together that I have obtained. If not, then moderators can feel free to delete this I guess.
Back to the rankings...Essentially a couple issues came up. In regards to CSB, their rankings are divided up to North American vs. Euro for their skaters. So this poses a slight problem in terms of ranking because it influences scores because a guy like Phil Kessel is ranked number 5 on CSB NA, where as Yuri Alexandrov is the number 4 european, so this inflates or deflates their scores slightly because it's not quite where other agencies have them tabbed. But I felt that this problem works itself out to an extent as both north american and euro players have their scores influenced equally. At least it didn't seem to skewer the rankings severely.
The other concern revolves around goaltenders, where it gets even more complicated. CSB ranks their goaltenders seperate from their skaters, but also divided up by NA/Euro. ISS also has their goalies ranked seperately. So this did tend to inflate the goaltending rankings overall. However, I kind of liked the way the rankings ended up without trying to overcome this problem because every NHL draft goaltenders end up getting taken higher then we anticipate usually.
Anyway enough with the background, here is how the top 100 turned out.
1. Erik Johnson
2. Jordan Staal
3. Niklas Backstrom
4. Jonathan Toews
5. Phil Kessel
6. Peter Mueller
7. Derrick Brassard
8. Jiri Tlusty
9. Jonathan Bernier
10. Michael Frolik
11. Bryan Little
12. Kyle Okposo
13. James Sheppard
14. Bob Sanguinetti
15. Chris Stewart
16. Nigel Williams
17. Ty Wishart
18. Riku Helenius
19. Leland Irving
20. Michael Grabner
21. Cory Emmerton
22. Ivan Vishnevsky
23. Alexander Vasyunov
24. Ondrej Fiala
25. Mike Forney
26. Ben Maxwell
27. Ryan White
28. Yuri Alexandrov
29. Joe Ryan
30. Jesse Joensuu
31. David Fischer
32. Jhonas Enroth
33. Nick Foligno
34. Mark Mitera
35. Codey Burki
36. Semen Varlamov
37. Chris Summers
38. Cal Clutterbuck
39. Patrik Berglund
40. Tomas Kana
41. Claude Giroux
42. Blake Geoffrion
43. Ben Shutron
44. Artem Anisimov
45. Mike Weber
46. David Ruzicka
47. Tony Lagerstrom
48. Vladimir Zharkov
49. Tomas Marcinko
50. Trevor Lewis
51. Brian Strait
52. Joe Palmer
53. Bryce Swan
54. Francois Bouchard
55. John Armstrong
56. Jamie Mcginn
57. Michal Neuwirth
58. Matthew Corrente
59. Bobby Hughes
60. Jan Mikael Juutilainen
61. Brady Calla
62. Kevin Montgomery
63. Billy Sauer
64. Andrei Popov
65. Reto Berra
66. Ryan Hillier
67. Carl Sneep
68. Simon Denis Papin
69. Matt Beleskey
70. Theo Peckham
71. Mike Ratchuk
72. Igor Makarov
73. Niko Hovinen
74. Oskar Osala
75. David Kveton
76. John Degray
77. Dennis Persson
78. Robert Nyholm
79. Mathieu Carle
80. Jonas Ahnelov
81. Joonas Lehtivuori
82. Igor Zubov
83. Andreas Nodl
84. Martin Latal
85. Eric Gryba
86. Ryan Flynn
87. Michael Caruso
88. Nikolai Kulemin
89. Riley Holzapfel
90. Kevin Armstrong
91. Jeff Petry
92. Benjamin Breault
93. Timo Seppanen
94. Jaime Mcbain
95. Eetu Heikkinen
96. Robin Figren
97. Bud Holloway
98. Derrick Lapoint
99. Ryan Turek
100. Brad Marchand
Hope that many of you find this interesting. I mostly did this for my FHL sim league drafts but figured I'd post it as well.
If you have any other questions, feel free to post them.
Hopefully this is ok in terms of guidelines with copy enfringement, because I'm not giving out the exact rankings of those agencies, but an average score for those 4 together that I have obtained. If not, then moderators can feel free to delete this I guess.
Back to the rankings...Essentially a couple issues came up. In regards to CSB, their rankings are divided up to North American vs. Euro for their skaters. So this poses a slight problem in terms of ranking because it influences scores because a guy like Phil Kessel is ranked number 5 on CSB NA, where as Yuri Alexandrov is the number 4 european, so this inflates or deflates their scores slightly because it's not quite where other agencies have them tabbed. But I felt that this problem works itself out to an extent as both north american and euro players have their scores influenced equally. At least it didn't seem to skewer the rankings severely.
The other concern revolves around goaltenders, where it gets even more complicated. CSB ranks their goaltenders seperate from their skaters, but also divided up by NA/Euro. ISS also has their goalies ranked seperately. So this did tend to inflate the goaltending rankings overall. However, I kind of liked the way the rankings ended up without trying to overcome this problem because every NHL draft goaltenders end up getting taken higher then we anticipate usually.
Anyway enough with the background, here is how the top 100 turned out.
1. Erik Johnson
2. Jordan Staal
3. Niklas Backstrom
4. Jonathan Toews
5. Phil Kessel
6. Peter Mueller
7. Derrick Brassard
8. Jiri Tlusty
9. Jonathan Bernier
10. Michael Frolik
11. Bryan Little
12. Kyle Okposo
13. James Sheppard
14. Bob Sanguinetti
15. Chris Stewart
16. Nigel Williams
17. Ty Wishart
18. Riku Helenius
19. Leland Irving
20. Michael Grabner
21. Cory Emmerton
22. Ivan Vishnevsky
23. Alexander Vasyunov
24. Ondrej Fiala
25. Mike Forney
26. Ben Maxwell
27. Ryan White
28. Yuri Alexandrov
29. Joe Ryan
30. Jesse Joensuu
31. David Fischer
32. Jhonas Enroth
33. Nick Foligno
34. Mark Mitera
35. Codey Burki
36. Semen Varlamov
37. Chris Summers
38. Cal Clutterbuck
39. Patrik Berglund
40. Tomas Kana
41. Claude Giroux
42. Blake Geoffrion
43. Ben Shutron
44. Artem Anisimov
45. Mike Weber
46. David Ruzicka
47. Tony Lagerstrom
48. Vladimir Zharkov
49. Tomas Marcinko
50. Trevor Lewis
51. Brian Strait
52. Joe Palmer
53. Bryce Swan
54. Francois Bouchard
55. John Armstrong
56. Jamie Mcginn
57. Michal Neuwirth
58. Matthew Corrente
59. Bobby Hughes
60. Jan Mikael Juutilainen
61. Brady Calla
62. Kevin Montgomery
63. Billy Sauer
64. Andrei Popov
65. Reto Berra
66. Ryan Hillier
67. Carl Sneep
68. Simon Denis Papin
69. Matt Beleskey
70. Theo Peckham
71. Mike Ratchuk
72. Igor Makarov
73. Niko Hovinen
74. Oskar Osala
75. David Kveton
76. John Degray
77. Dennis Persson
78. Robert Nyholm
79. Mathieu Carle
80. Jonas Ahnelov
81. Joonas Lehtivuori
82. Igor Zubov
83. Andreas Nodl
84. Martin Latal
85. Eric Gryba
86. Ryan Flynn
87. Michael Caruso
88. Nikolai Kulemin
89. Riley Holzapfel
90. Kevin Armstrong
91. Jeff Petry
92. Benjamin Breault
93. Timo Seppanen
94. Jaime Mcbain
95. Eetu Heikkinen
96. Robin Figren
97. Bud Holloway
98. Derrick Lapoint
99. Ryan Turek
100. Brad Marchand
Hope that many of you find this interesting. I mostly did this for my FHL sim league drafts but figured I'd post it as well.
If you have any other questions, feel free to post them.