Some rankings have more correlation to how the draft will unfold than others, and no rankings are perfect so we combined seven of the most respected draft rankings and used an average to get our own rankings.
This is our 10th year doing this. Last year out of the 147 ranked players, 135 (91.8%) were drafted. Only three of the top 100 players were not drafted (57th-ranked Tomas Galvas, Daniil Ustenkov (82) and Alexander Zetterberg (84)). The correlation of the consensus ranking to draft selection was 0.7394, an increase from 2023.
Of course, it’s never going to be an exact process. Outlets rank players based on how they feel the players will end up, not where they will be drafted so their goal is not the same as our goal. The goal of the Consensus rankings is to try to get a picture of how the talent is being evaluated.
This year’s rankings uses fewer sources than the last few years. This is not a reflection of the quality of the sources omitted, rather a lack of time to enter all the rankings compared to previous years.
History of EOTP’s Consensus Draft Rankings
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YEAR
PLAYERS
CORRELATION
DRAFTED %
217 DRAFTED %
2016
106
0.7924
94.34
N/A
2017
315
0.7674
80.18
67.28
2018
264
0.7594
81.11
72.35
2019
140
0.8269
92.86
N/A
2020
257
0.7365
81.11
73.73
2021
163
0.7739
84.66
N/A
2022
154
0.7924
84.42
N/A
2023
140
0.7219
90.00
N/A
2024
147
0.7394
91.84
N/A
2025
148
Previous Rankings (2016 was not published):