Tarnstrom. Add Skinner.
I will never understand how players drafted in later rounds just weeks earlier get more votes than players drafted in higher rounds. But it happens every year. I suppose it proves what we all know... we are much smarter than the scouts!
I talked about this in another round. Yes, where a player was drafted does matter, because it shows how our scouts feel about players. And that IS important.
Are our scouts infallible? No. Are we sometimes right and they are wrong? Yes. Would this ranking even be worth doing if we restricted ourselves to where players were drafted?
I liked Zac Jones better than Henriksson. Keane better than Lindbom and Ragnarsson. Barron over Lakatos and Crawley. Duclair and Buchnevich over Tambellini. And on and on. I feel pretty good about how I had those guys initially.
I mean I've also been wrong, plenty, and the draft order was right. But that's not a given, and honestly I think this would be a dull exercise if I came in here saying, "Well Vierling has to go before Berard so I can't pick Berard even though I like him the most. Oh and Tärnström has to go before
both of them. Oh shit, and Garand
also has to go before both of them and he's not even on the list! Richards it is."
I don't think I'm smarter or better than the scouts. I just see things differently sometimes and vote accordingly.