I am not sure why you ask for others thoughts and then want to disagree.
We are this year approaching another draft year for son. From what I thought 4 years ago when first trying to figure it out, is completely different than from what I understand now. A lot of it comes because in one way or another when our kids get attention for the upcoming draft, we tend to get excited and forget that there is SO much to it all that we, as parents have no clue about.
You can watch all the films you want between a first round pick and a 45th pick, but if you are not a scout or not the organization that drafted him, you have NO idea what the circumstances were that placed them at different rounds. If so, I would imagine you would be a scout.
After watching the draft for years, without a doubt found players in higher rounds that you might not have seen on any list. That is determined only on day one and two of the draft.
13th pick of the 2006 draft was not high on most lists until the last month before the draft. Lot of that is because, as you will find out, May determines a lot.
Marketing HAS nothing to do with it. I think that you again are trying to prove that "lists" mean nothing. Lists and scouting reports are seperate, for me, though you will find the higher ones on the list have excellent scouting reports. And yes, maybe, just maybe there is a player out there that NO one has seen yet that might be a high draft pick. But you might, may or early june all of a sudden see him 'appear" on some list. I t wasn't because of marketing, it was because that player, whether HS or college, emerged into a player to stand up and take notice too.
FYI, just because a player is on a "team" list, does NOT mean he will be drafted at all.
I understand that you are preparing yourself for the next step, but I think that you have a lot of homework to do. JMO.
Along your journey, you will find that different scouts have differnt things to say. Not slighting anyone, but this is a lot more complicated than you have it figured out. I think it very important to listen to those that have had experience through the draft and minor league and major league.
I'd love for bbscout and PG to comment on this one!