How are you supposed to support an opinion? I posted two scouting reports that have him listed 9 and 5. I told you what kind of player he is, IMO. What else do you want?
Actually, that's a very good question, and honestly, I don't think some people on these boards really support their opinions either. I see a lot of people who say Player X is ranked "somewhere" in their opinion, but then they don't really support that thought. Usually the answer, and I'm paraphrasing here, is "they're better than Player Y" as their reasoning.
Then you have people who reference "ranking services" such as ISS, or CSS, or Button/McKenzie and leave it at that, and then they get down on others (you for example Stokes) for referencing a valid reference with ISS and a media member who has the same validity as McKenzie.
What I would like to know is WHY people think certain players are ranked ahead of others besides using someone else's opinion as theirs. Such as, what makes Marner better than Strome? What does he do better, what skills does Marner have better than Strome? This was just an example, but it seems what you do Stokes, is what others do, and you just use different players to focus on.
I know this kind of blowing off steam, but it just seems to me people, outside a few posters, don't explain WHY players are ranked where they are, they just say this player is better than that player.
I'm sorry if this derails the thread, I just needed to get this off my chest.