2022 NHL Entry Draft Ranking and Mock Draft Aggregate

Features:

621-player ranking aggregate combining data from over 50 prospect rankings
Pundit Analysis - Measure how "wild" each pundit is and analyze how off their ranking is from the draft outcome
Mock Draft Aggregate - Combining info from over 30 separate Round 1 Mock Drafts to discern each team's most projected pick
Draft class statistics, real-time draft day tracking, plus draft results and analysis!

NHL Draft Info:

Thursday, July 7 and Friday, July 8
- Round 1 - July 7, 7pm ET / 4pm PT, TV: ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS
- Rounds 2-7 - July 8, 11am ET / 8am PT, TV: NHLN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS

Can't watch on TV or online? Follow along on this page during the draft as I will be entering in the picks live as they happen. Get real-time results on how your team is doing and watch what players are reached for or fall down the board. When the draft is over, check out the Draft Results Analysis to see how your team performed compared to the rankings.

Interested in supporting this and future draft projects? You can support me at https://paypal.me/astark38

FAQ:

Q: Why did you include a bunch of random bloggers/twitter posts with equal weight as major news outlets?

A: While major news outlets may have inside sources, it has not been proven that they are superior to bloggers or hobbyists in terms of ranking draft-eligible talent. This is actually part of the goal of this project long-term. I began this project with the 2017 Draft and intend to continue on into the future. As the results from the 2017 Draft become apparent (I project we can do a proper analysis of this in 2023), we can go back and compare results from the rankings and determine who was the most accurate in their rankings. Perhaps the data will eventually prove me wrong but for now I will lean on the side of having a large breadth of data rather than exclude people who put in the work because they are not renowned pundits. I do not own the privilege of gatekeeping draft analysis.

Q: Why did you exclude a certain ranking or mock draft that I know of?

A: If I excluded it, its either because its behind a paywall that was outside my hobbyist budget or its because I could not find it. Please comment on my Reddit or Twitter post with a link and I will add it if I am able. I intentionally did not include rankings that are consensus/aggregates of other rankings.

Q: How can you compare Top-32 rankings with Top-250 and some that rank goalies and others that don't?

A: I understand the different ranking types can affect the data, which is why you see a lot of later-ranked guys with higher rankings than you might expect (since the data is missing). However, I do not feel these differences are negative enough to warrant splitting or omitting the data. I prefer that the data just speak for itself, and that I should not try to interpolate or compensate for this.

Thanks for viewing! This is a product of ~4 months of work to scour the web for data and enter it manually (for the most part, thanks to various sources spelling player names differently), compiling information on over 500 players.

Previous Years:

2021 - https://sites.google.com/view/2021nhldraftaggregate/home
2020 - https://sites.google.com/view/2020nhldraft/home
2019 - https://sites.google.com/view/2019nhldraftrankings/home
2018 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mQhQWEszAnAsxgr7pyxOahXY-udvgjPCGdnEBIM0YE/edit?usp=sharing
2017 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AxBHVsE-dMzTRprG1J89eLVXjRT6M1L1XGlPUiywOyk/edit?usp=sharing
2016 (Not mine, but an inspiration for the project) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TyFJM2L3DkIAX-4HjmxT7wnbA752y6DCERtM7555Hlw/edit?usp=sharing

Sources (in no particular order):

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