You might have a pretty good formula if you multiply the draft choice points by the year in school. Say a 5th Round Junior is worth (3 pts X 3 years = 9 pts). A first round Freshman is worth 7 pts (7 X 1 year).
Using this, Minnesota ends up with 212 points.
Player with most points: David Fischer, senior first rounder for 28 points.
Player with fewest points: Nick Larson, sophomore seventh rounder for 2 points.
Obviously, high draft choices (Turris, Kessel) are great players, but leave school early and obviously don't contribute as much as guys who stick around for four years.
You might have a pretty good formula if you multiply the draft choice points by the year in school. Say a 5th Round Junior is worth (3 pts X 3 years = 9 pts). A first round Freshman is worth 7 pts (7 X 1 year).
Well going by this your original idea (yer best I think) -
MSU Spartans-
Nill - Soph. 7th round = 2 x 1 = 2
Sucharski - Senior (5th-year redshirt) 5th round = 4 x 3 = 12
Grant - Freshman 4th round = 1 x 4 = 4
Tropp - Junior 3rd round = 3 x 5 = 15
Petry - Junior 2nd round = 3 x 6 = 18
Leveille - Soph. 1st round = 2 x 7 = 14
Total: 65
Obviously, high draft choices (Turris, Kessel) are great players, but leave school early and obviously don't contribute as much as guys who stick around for four years.
You might have a pretty good formula if you multiply the draft choice points by the year in school. Say a 5th Round Junior is worth (3 pts X 3 years = 9 pts). A first round Freshman is worth 7 pts (7 X 1 year).
I just saw Kyle Turris just got sent to San Antonio of the AHL so i would be carefull with using him with Phil Kessel. both needed NHL seasoning but Kessel is now proving to be a serious threat guy in the NHL and Turris can't even make an NHL roster on the worse team much less. I blame Phx more then Kyle Turris and it may be a tad early to say this but could Kyle Turris be a draft flop based on his draft position??? PHX can't do anything right i guess....
I think we can all see the problems with this system.
Originally posted by dicaslover Yep, you got it. I heart Maize.
Originally posted by Kristin Maybe I'm missing something but you just asked me which MSU I go to and then you knew the theme of my homecoming, how do you know one and not the other?
NHL draft picks don't always equate to success for college teams. Certainly it's A measure of talent in a program, but its not THE measure of talent. NHL teams draft players based on how they will project to the NHL in 3-5 years, not how they may or may not help a college team today. Plenty of 5-7 undrafted guys become great college players, and lots of big drafted guys don't produce much at the college level. Additionally, the more drafted players you have, the harder it is to manage all the increased egos, playing time, parental, CHL and NHL interference and early departures, etc.
Of course, having drafted players is a good recruiting tool, some of them turn out to be great college players, and it's good publicity for a program. But most drafted players never see the NHL at all (especially 3rd-7th rounders), and many of them turn out little better than undrafted guys at the college level...
All I am doing is questioning the conventional wisdom that some folks equate more drafts picks=better team/program, which is the logical progression of a thread where people post how many drafted guys their program has....
NHL draft picks don't always equate to success for college teams. Certainly it's A measure of talent in a program, but its not THE measure of talent. NHL teams draft players based on how they will project to the NHL in 3-5 years, not how they may or may not help a college team today. Plenty of 5-7 undrafted guys become great college players, and lots of big drafted guys don't produce much at the college level. Additionally, the more drafted players you have, the harder it is to manage all the increased egos, playing time, parental, CHL and NHL interference and early departures, etc.
Of course, having drafted players is a good recruiting tool, some of them turn out to be great college players, and it's good publicity for a program. But most drafted players never see the NHL at all (especially 3rd-7th rounders), and many of them turn out little better than undrafted guys at the college level...
I knew Minnesota was going to have a huge number, and posted it to show how little it can mean when it comes to winning championships. No doubt that it can be a good thing, but definitely not a necessity.
All I am doing is questioning the conventional wisdom that some folks equate more drafts picks=better team/program, which is the logical progression of a thread where people post how many drafted guys their program has....
No team is going to win the National Championship today without a good number of their players being good enough at 18 or 19 to be drafted. This is not like back in the 60 or 70's, were a team could load up on 25 year old Canadians, who are well past the draft age, but could still play in college. Take away all the drafted players from Denver, and tell me how good they would be.
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