Nhl 20 says 25 2nd round picks equal the value....
Randomly picking draft year 2015 (strong draft, the McDavid-draft) and draft year 2010. (5 year timeline)
2015 -
Picks 3 & 5 ; Dylan Strome & Noah Hanifin
vs 25 2nd round picks;
Roope Hintz - Sebastian Aho - Christian Fischer
Jordan Greenway - AJ Greer - Mitchell Stephens
Daniel Sprong - Filip Chlapik - Paul Bittner
Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson - Julius Nättinen - Jeremy Bracco
Yakov Trenin - Jansen Harkins - Kevin Stenlund
Brandon Carlo - Travis Dermott
Erik Cernak - Brendan Guhle
Rasmus Andersson - Vince Dunn
Jonas Siegenhalert - Oliver Kylington
Jeremy Lauzon
MacKenzie Blackwood
2010 -
Picks 3 & 5 ; Erik Gudbranson & Nino Niederreiter
vs 25 2nd round picks;
Jason Zucker - Johan Larsson - Tyler Toffoli
Oscar Lindberg - Ryan Spooner - Calle Järnkok
Devante Smith-Pelly - Christian Thomas - Tyler Pitlick
Connor Brickley - Brett Bulmer - Sebastian Wännström
Jared Knight - John McFarland - Petr Straka
Justin Faulk - Alex Petrovic
Stephen Johns - Jon Merrill
Patrik Nemeth - Martin Marincin
Justin Holl - Mark Alt
Calvin Pickard
Kent Simpson
NO WAY IM DOING IT IF I HAVE 25 2nd ROUND PICKS!
Edit.!!!!
Investigated this further and as it happens these randomly picked 2 drafts were actually better for the team 2nd round than many others!
2011 - Easily for
team 2nds (Huberdeau & Strome vs Kucherov, Saad, Karlsson, etc etc)
2012 - Close call, but would actually take
team 3&5 (Galchenyuk&Rielly over weak 2nd round)
2013 - Close call and I will give
team 3&5 an edge between Drouin&Lindholm vs Jarry/Bertuzzi/Sanford/Compher etc..
2014 - Draisaitl wins this one alone for the
team 3&5, over Demko/Dvorak/Montour etc.
2016 - Win for
team 2nds. Hart/DeBrincat/Girard/Hronek etc over Dubois&Juolevi
2017 -
team 3&5 wins easily with Heiskanen and Petterson over still unrpoven 2nd rounders.
2018-- not enough data.
So over the 8 drafts viewed its actually tied 4-4!
CORRECTED; VALUE IS EXACTLY RIGHT!! WAY TO GO NHL 20!!