Player Comps  Making player comparisons is major component of
how professional sports teams view players and prospects.
Comparisons are made at draft time, during contract
negotiations, and in other sports during contract arbitration
cases where both sides (team and player/agent) make comparisons.
During the scouting process, it's easy to project high with
19-20 year old prospects. You see their physical tools and think
the sky is the limit. Which to a certain extent it is with
nearly every young maturing adult. The problem however is that
most times these prospects never reach 80% of their potential,
making it more difficult to project 5-6 years into the future.
Another issue with comparisons is that people, especially the
major draft websites tend to only compare within the same race
or origin. If it's a European player, he gets compared to
another Euro, a white to another white guy, and so on and so
forth.  Here are some of my comparisons for this year's
prospects, with a little explanation as to why: