Prospect Draft Order

I meant to ask Derrick, where did you come up with that Prospect Draft ranking? It seems totally random. I thought we had agreed last season to the final Waiver priority list as being the judge of draft rank for this draft? You have it:

1.) Washington Capitals
2.) Ottawa Senators
3.) Calgary Flames
4.) Winnipeg Jets
5.) Boston Bruins
6.) San Jose Sharks
7.) Detroit Red Wings
8.) Carolina Hurricanes
9.) Minnesota Wild
10.) Toronto Maple Leafs
11.) Anaheim Ducks
12.) Colorado Avalanche

The list with Waiver priority as the ranker would be:

1.) Washington Capitals
2.) Colorado Avalanche
3.) Detroit Red Wings
4.) Minnesota Wild
5.) Winnipeg Jets
6.) Anaheim Ducks
7.) Calgary Flames
8.) San Jose Sharks
9.) Ottawa Senators
10.) Toronto Maple Leafs
11.) Boston Bruins
12.) Carolina Hurricanes

As you can see I lose position if we implement the new list, I was just under the impression that's what we were using as the ranker. I'm sure other managers were playing with this in mind as well. I feel like that's a good system to use as well.

I used a random list generator. An email should have been sent to each GM confirming this and the order that was generated. The initial waiver priority for the Yahoo league is randomly generated to begin with, so the ordering of this draft should follow that method as well. This way there is no room for waiver priority manipulation, etc. In addition to the randomness of the waiver priority order, this randomizing of the draft picks for the prospect draft adds yet another wild card in the mix for all teams involved.