The goal of a prospect list is simple: Identify the best players and rank them in an ordinal fashion. It sounds simple on the surface, but “identify[ing] the best players and rank[ing] them” is anything but. The annual Amazin’ Avenue top prospect list is compiled from the opinions of multiple individuals, and every one of us has our own biases, likes, and dislikes. We all place value in different things, weighing different player attributes according to our own preferences.
Lukas, for example, is very analytically-oriented, and that colors what he is looking at.
In the past, data-inclined list-writers like myself have relied on bits and pieces of data we could scrounge up, second- and third-hand bits of real underlying metrics combined with a view of the top-line performance and player demographics.