PuckPoise
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- May 25, 2011
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Bob said on the Bobcast 8/10 of his scouts are head scouts and that he trusts these guys. He's basically taking the median of these ranks, not the average. If one is skewed very low or high then he kinda has to curve it so it doesn't really skew the rankings so that's going to hide if a scout tips him off on someone ranked very low or high.
That said, I'm very interested in how these high ranks for Kravtsov and Denisenko translate to reality. There aren't many teams who pull the trigger on Russians from the KHL in the first couple of rounds. Bob had Kostin at 18 and he went 31st.
Do teams do their rankings on talent and then factor in the Russian factor or is the Russian factor considered before they place the player at whatever number. If it's the former that's probably why.