Quoting: F50marco
Agreed.
Why do people resort to this? Even if you managed to convince people otherwise, will it change anything? Will the value now be established because of it? NO.
Capitalfail1967, No one here is a "professional" so technically there is no right or wrong. Only educated guesses. It doesn't matter what people think. You have your opinion, they have theirs. You can try to convince otherwise but that's all you can do.
*Citation needed
Frankly, if NHL GMs and pro scouts don't spend fifteen minutes a day seeing what their fans think they should do, they're missing out on (a) a goodlaugh and (b) free advice that could, in some rare cases, significantly advance their careers. Do I think they read everything we post, and consider it? No, but the internet is a democratizing technology. If we cite facts and provide cogent analysis, there's no reason two GMs couldn't sit down over a fan trade, and at least use it as a starting point. It's not like their teams' weaknesses or their players' values are closely guarded secrets.
Ted Leonsis once blogged about the value of "crowdsourcing," in professional sports. Of course, his current GM was hired after telling him to quit blogging about his teams and let the pros manage them. But other teams are hiring bloggers and amateur statisticians as management consultants and assistant GMs. There's no reason to take anything you read here seriously, unless you agree with it and it makes sense.
What CapitalFail67 is doing here is trying to translate some proposed McDonagh trades into equivalent value in terms of player age, player expectations, and past performance so that fans who only know the Rangers can see that, even though McDonagh is a very good defenseman, he might not be worth what they're demanding for him from the Caps, let alone the Lighting.
It's a big humorous. If you think it's worth insulting his intelligence over, you must be from New York. In the best way.