Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – July 2018
Dobber
2018-07-05
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – July edition.
This month I'm still manually tweaking. The August edition will be fully audited with proper short-term projections entered into my template, proper lineups put in, etc. For this edition, I added in the best drafted players from last month, plus adjusted for the free agent frenzy (I'm sure I missed a couple, please let me know in the comments if you catch any).
As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 ratings should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs. The overall Top 300 Skaters list was up Wednesday (here). The Top G list was posted Tuesday (here).
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| Def. Rk | Player | Team | Rating | July | June |
| 1 | Erik Karlsson | OTT | 119.4 | 35 | 34 |
| 2 | Brent Burns | SJS | 95.4 | 56 | 57 |
| 3 | John Klingberg | DAL | 91.2 | 61 | 62 |
| 4 | Shayne Gostisbehere | PHI | 90.0 | 63 | 64 |
| 5 | Victor Hedman | TBL | 89.9 | 64 | 63 |
| 6 | P.K. Subban | NSH | 88.6 | 66 | 66 |
| 7 | John Carlson | WAS | 87.2 | 67 | 68 |
| 8 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | ARI | 67.6 | 105 | 110 |
| 9 | Tyson Barrie | COL | 66.7 | 110 | 109 |
| 10 | Morgan Rielly | TOR | 64.5 | 115 | 113 |
| 11 | Dougie Hamilton | CAR | 64.2 | 116 | 133 |
| 12 | Seth Jones | CBJ | 64.2 | 117 | 116 |
| 13 | Drew Doughty | LAK | 64.1 | 118 | 112 |
| 14 | Roman Josi | NSH | 63.6 | 120 | 114 |
| 15 | Zach Werenski | CBJ | 60.6 | 126 | 129 |
| 16 | Torey Krug | BOS | 58.3 | 134 | 131 |
| 17 | Kris Letang | PIT | 57.4 | 135 | 132 |
| 18 | Alex Pietrangelo | STL | 57.3 | 136 | 134 |
| 19 | Ryan Ellis | NSH | 49.4 | 150 | 150 |
| 20 | Jake Gardiner | TOR | 48.4 | 152 | 147 |
| 21 | Keith Yandle | FLA | 48.1 | 153 | 154 |
| 22 | Kevin Shattenkirk | NYR | 44.7 | 166 | 164 |
| 23 | Dustin Byfuglien | WPG | 44.6 | 167 | 163 |
| 24 | Matt Dumba | MIN | 43.8 | 169 | 165 |
| 25 | Charlie McAvoy | BOS | 41.1 | 174 | 179 |
| 26 | Ivan Provorov | PHI | 39.2 | 180 | 184 |
| 27 | Mikhail Sergachev | TBL | 39.1 | 182 | 186 |
| 28 | Rasmus Dahlin | BUF | 38.8 | 184 | NR |
| 29 | Will Butcher | NJD | 32.8 | 203 | 206 |
| 30 | Rasmus Ristolainen | BUF | 32.2 | 206 | 218 |
| 31 | Justin Schultz | PIT | 32.2 | 207 | 205 |
| 32 | Brandon Montour | ANA | 30.6 | 217 | 216 |
| 33 | Aaron Ekblad | FLA | 30.4 | 218 | 219 |
| 34 | Tyler Myers | WPG | 29.6 | 221 | 217 |
| 35 | Nick Leddy | NYI | 29.2 | 223 | 220 |
| 36 | Shea Theodore | VGK | 29.1 | 225 | 215 |
| 37 | Colin Miller | VGK | 28.9 | 227 | 212 |
| 38 | Ryan Pulock | NYI | 28.8 | 228 | 225 |
| 39 | Ryan Suter | MIN | 28.8 | 229 | 203 |
| 40 | Jacob Trouba | WPG | 27.9 | 234 | 230 |
| 41 | Colton Parayko | STL | 26.3 | 239 | 241 |
| 42 | Cam Fowler | ANA | 25.0 | 250 | 247 |
| 43 | TJ Brodie | CGY | 23.9 | 254 | 260 |
| 44 | Sami Vatanen | NJD | 23.3 | 256 | 254 |
| 45 | Mike Matheson | FLA | 23.3 | 257 | 259 |
| 46 | Thomas Chabot | OTT | 23.2 | 258 | 264 |
| 47 | Shea Weber | MON | 23.0 | 260 | 252 |
| 48 | Noah Hanifin | CGY | 22.8 | 263 | 274 |
| 49 | Jake Muzzin | LAK | 22.8 | 264 | 256 |
| 50 | Joshua Morrissey | WPG | 21.1 | 271 | 269 |
| 51 | Duncan Keith | CHI | 20.9 | 274 | 265 |
| 52 | Nate Schmidt | VGK | 18.5 | 300 | 272 |
| 53 | Mattias Ekholm | NSH | 17.5 | 310 | 296 |
| 54 | Darnell Nurse | EDM | 17.0 | 317 | 310 |
| 55 | Samuel Girard | COL | 16.8 | 321 | 324 |
| 56 | Jakob Chychrun | ARI | 15.3 | 336 | 353 |
| 57 | Mark Giordano | CGY | 15.0 | 340 | 333 |
| 58 | Oscar Klefbom | EDM | 14.8 | 343 | 332 |
| 59 | Justin Faulk | CAR | 14.5 | 347 | 335 |
| 60 | Ryan McDonagh | TBL | 14.2 | 349 | 334 |
| 61 | Esa Lindell | DAL | 14.0 | 350 | 342 |
| 62 | Christian Djoos | WAS | 14.0 | 351 | 344 |
| 63 | Jaccob Slavin | CAR | 13.7 | 354 | 346 |
| 64 | Anthony DeAngelo | NYR | 13.6 | 356 | 352 |
| 65 | Connor Carrick | TOR | 13.3 | 357 | 348 |
| 66 | Brady Skjei | NYR | 13.2 | 359 | 354 |
| 67 | Hampus Lindholm | ANA | 13.2 | 360 | 351 |
| 68 | Jared Spurgeon | MIN | 13.1 | 361 | 325 |
| 69 | Julius Honka | DAL | 13.1 | 362 | 357 |
| 70 | Quinn Hughes | VAN | 12.5 | 368 | NR |
| 71 | Evan Bouchard | EDM | 11.7 | 378 | NR |
| 72 | Adam Boqvist | CHI | 11.4 | 382 | NR |
| 73 | Timothy Liljegren | TOR | 10.3 | 391 | 389 |
| 74 | Nikita Zadorov | COL | 10.2 | 392 | 378 |
| 75 | Marc-Edouard Vlasic | SJS | 9.7 | 395 | 372 |
| 76 | Madison Bowey | WAS | 9.4 | 398 | 387 |
| 77 | Mike Green | DET | 9.3 | 399 | 374 |
| 78 | Derrick Pouliot | VAN | 9.0 | 403 | 385 |
| 79 | Jake McCabe | BUF | 8.9 | 404 | 414 |
| 80 | Jake Walman | STL | 8.9 | 406 | 393 |
| 81 | Dmitry Orlov | WAS | 8.8 | 407 | 383 |
| 82 | Andrej Sekera | EDM | 8.6 | 408 | 381 |
| 83 | Sebastian Aho | NYI | 8.5 | 409 | 418 |
| 84 | Travis Dermott | TOR | 8.2 | 411 | 412 |
| 85 | Victor Mete | MON | 8.1 | 413 | 417 |
| 86 | Jordan Schmaltz | STL | 8.0 | 415 | 403 |
| 87 | Travis Sanheim | PHI | 7.6 | 422 | 416 |
| 88 | Alex Goligoski | ARI | 7.6 | 423 | 401 |
| 89 | Erik Brannstrom | VGK | 7.6 | 424 | 433 |
| 90 | Miro Heiskanen | DAL | 7.6 | 425 | 434 |
| 91 | Josh Manson | ANA | 7.5 | 427 | 398 |
| 92 | Damon Severson | NJD | 7.5 | 428 | 408 |
| 93 | Rasmus Andersson | CGY | 7.3 | 432 | 427 |
| 94 | Oliver Kylington | CGY | 7.1 | 434 | 429 |
| 95 | Olli Juolevi | VAN | 7.1 | 437 | 442 |
| 96 | Chris Wideman | OTT | 6.5 | 446 | 415 |
| 97 | Vince Dunn | STL | 6.3 | 448 | 445 |
| 98 | Cale Makar | COL | 6.2 | 449 | 464 |
| 99 | Jan Rutta | CHI | 6.2 | 450 | 421 |
| 100 | Jeff Petry | MON | 5.7 | 459 | 422 |
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