The Top 65 defensemen to own in your keeper league.

These are pulled from the Top 300 Keeper League players list. In your points-only keeper leagues, here are the top 300 players to own. Remember, positions don't matter (so a defenseman may be undervalued here vs. in your league). Other factors – potential points longterm, their likely 3YP, their current pace, proneness to injury, the strength of their team and offensive coaching system, distance from career peak age.

This month I spent some time on figuring out a formula that would properly value defensemen as we go further down the list (say – beyond the first 50). I failed. I'm okay with the first 65, but the rest I had to manually go in there and move players around and it's still not great. So this month, we'll go with the Top 65. At issue is the fact that the lower on the list you go, the lower the rating – when you reach a player with a 6.5 rating and he goes up or down 1.0 rating points, he moves up or down 30 spots! They're just so close that the slighest tweak results in wild swings – so, using the current year's production variable (just one of many variables, but just using a simple example), if a player is expected to get 30 points and he gets off to a hot start and you tweak that variable to 35 points, he moves up too much and too quickly.