Here are the Top 50 defensemen to own in your fantasy hockey points-only keeper league – August edition.

This month's changes are based on the values that changed on the regular rankings template – one of the variables involved in the final rating below is the keeper value on the main list. It shuffled players up and down as you see below.

As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of personal preference or team needs.

The Top 300 Keeper Skaters list was posted Wednesday (here). The Top G list was posted Tuesday (here). The Top 100 Keeper Defensemen was Thursday (here). Prospect Forwards list was posted yesterday (here)…

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Aug 10	Prospect	Team	age	type	July 10	June 10
1	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	d	91.3	1	NR
2	Cale Makar	COL	d	70.4	2	1
3	Quinn Hughes	VAN	d	70.0	4	NR
4	Samuel Girard	COL	d	69.0	3	2
5	Ryan Pulock	NYI	d	68.0	6	3
6	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	d	67.4	8	5
7	Adam Boqvist	CHI	d	66.5	7	NR
8	Thomas Chabot	OTT	d	66.4	5	4
9	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	d	63.9	10	7
10	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	d	63.5	9	6
11	Evan Bouchard	EDM	d	62.6	11	NR
12	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	d	61.7	14	10
13	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	d	61.7	15	11
14	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	d	60.5	12	8
15	Julius Honka	DAL	d	60.3	13	9
16	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	d	58.9	16	12
17	Conor Timmins	COL	d	58.0	20	16
18	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	d	57.9	18	14
19	Victor Mete	MON	d	57.7	17	13
20	Dante Fabbro	NSH	d	57.7	22	17
21	Noah Dobson	NYI	d	57.2	19	NR
22	Travis Sanheim	PHI	d	56.9	21	15
23	Christian Djoos	WAS	d	55.8	23	18
24	Kale Clague	LAK	d	55.3	25	20
25	Madison Bowey	WAS	d	55.2	24	19
26	Brendan Guhle	BUF	d	55.1	26	21
27	Olli Juolevi	VAN	d	54.9	27	22
28	Adam Fox	CAR	d	54.2	28	24
29	Travis Dermott	TOR	d	53.8	29	23
30	Jordan Schmaltz	STL	d	53.4	30	25
31	Sebastian Aho (d)	NYI	d	53.2	35	30
32	Gustav Forsling	CHI	d	52.4	31	26
33	Libor Hajek	NYR	d	51.9	32	27
34	Noah Juulsen	MON	d	50.5	33	28
35	Ethan Bear	EDM	d	49.3	44	36
36	Jake Walman	STL	d	49.3	34	29
37	Oliver Kylington	CGY	d	48.8	36	32
38	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	ARI	d	48.8	37	31
39	Ryan Merkley	SJS	d	48.7	38	NR
40	Filip Hronek	DET	d	48.0	39	33
41	Sami Niku	WPG	d	47.5	40	34
42	Ty Smith	NJD	d	47.1	41	NR
43	Cal Foote	TBL	d	46.4	42	35
44	Gabriel Carlsson	CBJ	d	46.0	43	37
45	Philippe Myers	PHI	d	45.7	45	38
46	K'Andre Miller	NYR	d	45.6	46	NR
47	Kyle Capobianco	ARI	d	45.3	47	39
48	Louie Belpedio	MIN	d	45.3	48	40
49	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	d	45.2	49	NR
50	Jake Bean	CAR	d	45.1	50	42