Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – November 2018

Dobber

2018-11-09

Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league – November edition!

These rankings are for points-only leagues without an IR (so if your player misses 10 games, or is a risk to miss 10 games, you lose those seven or eight points – they can't be replaced!). Also factored – upside, three-year career-best likelihood, injury risk, team offensive strength.

As always, two players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and become a matter of personal bias or team need.

The big one that sticks out here is Thomas Chabot. It seems odd that I would rate him ahead of Klingberg or Karlsson, since I would not trade Klingberg or Karlsson for him. Then again, if I owned Chabot (I don't, in any of my leagues)…would I trade him for Karlsson or Klingberg? I'd have to think long and hard about that one. All I know is that I plugged in his new projection for this year (70 points…for now – no way he continues his torrid 100-point pace), I bumped his upside to a shade under a point-per-game, he has zero for injury risk – and this is how things popped out. Equal to Klingberg (due to my above-mentioned +/-5.0 rule). I think in due time things will settle in for Chabot as we get a true feel of what he can do and what he is going to do. I suspect he'll dip down 10 or 15 spots over the next month or two, then back up a dozen, back down five or six again, and so on until he settles at the correct ranking. Right now, try tearing Chabot off of his keeper league owner – I don't believe it is possible (even for Burns).

To see the overall Top 300 Keeper League Skaters, click here.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Brent Burns	SJS	108.6	41	48	7
2	Victor Hedman	TBL	104.9	46	44	-2
3	Morgan Rielly	TOR	103.5	48	107	59
4	Thomas Chabot	OTT	97.6	57	242	185
5	John Klingberg	DAL	94.2	61	63	2
6	John Carlson	WAS	90.7	66	85	19
7	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	88.7	72	57	-15
8	Erik Karlsson	SJS	86.6	78	35	-43
9	P.K. Subban	NSH	85.6	80	80	0
10	Kris Letang	PIT	75.1	95	143	48
11	Drew Doughty	LAK	67.0	109	102	-7
12	Torey Krug	BOS	65.3	113	86	-27
13	Dustin Byfuglien	WPG	65.1	114	152	38
14	Seth Jones	CBJ	64.9	115	100	-15
15	Tyson Barrie	COL	63.8	119	118	-1
16	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	61.9	122	98	-24
17	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	59.3	129	124	-5
18	Roman Josi	NSH	59.2	130	103	-27
19	Keith Yandle	FLA	58.4	132	141	9
20	Zach Werenski	CBJ	57.4	136	132	-4
21	Matt Dumba	MIN	54.6	140	129	-11
22	Ryan Ellis	NSH	53.8	142	126	-16
23	Alex Pietrangelo	STL	47.6	158	137	-21
24	Jake Gardiner	TOR	47.1	160	154	-6
25	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	46.8	162	148	-14
26	Ivan Provorov	PHI	38.5	176	172	-4
27	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	36.6	181	197	16
28	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	36.1	182	180	-2
29	Jacob Trouba	WPG	34.3	188	199	11
30	Shea Theodore	VGK	31.8	198	181	-17
31	Ryan Suter	MIN	30.2	204	251	47
32	Kevin Shattenkirk	NYR	30.1	205	192	-13
33	Ryan McDonagh	TBL	29.4	210	336	126
34	Josh Morrissey	WPG	28.8	215	241	26
35	Will Butcher	NJD	28.6	218	243	25
36	Brandon Montour	ANA	28.0	221	195	-26
37	Colton Parayko	STL	28.0	222	221	-1
38	Ryan Pulock	NYI	27.1	228	201	-27
39	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	26.0	233	213	-20
40	Mark Giordano	CGY	24.7	242	377	135
41	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	23.8	253	187	-66
42	Mike Matheson	FLA	23.3	257	257	0
43	Noah Hanifin	CGY	23.0	259	208	-51
44	Damon Severson	NJD	21.4	268	370	102
45	Neal Pionk	NYR	21.0	271	501	230
46	Henri Jokiharju	CHI	20.9	272	407	135
47	Sami Vatanen	NJD	20.6	275	358	83
48	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	20.1	279	332	53
49	Colin Miller	VGK	19.6	284	260	-24
50	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	19.0	291	288	-3
51	Evan Bouchard	EDM	18.7	296	289	-7
52	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	18.5	299	359	60
53	Jeff Petry	MON	17.6	304	416	112
54	Hampus Lindholm	ANA	17.3	307	350	43
55	Jake Muzzin	LAK	17.1	308	271	-37
56	Cam Fowler	ANA	17.1	309	298	-11
57	Brady Skjei	NYR	17.0	310	420	110
58	TJ Brodie	CGY	17.0	312	300	-12
59	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	16.9	313	346	33
60	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.8	329	372	43
61	Nick Leddy	NYI	15.7	332	247	-85
62	Quinn Hughes	VAN	15.5	339	326	-13
63	Justin Schultz	PIT	15.2	344	240	-104
64	Vince Dunn	STL	14.9	348	418	70
65	Tyler Myers	WPG	14.2	356	266	-90
66	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	14.0	359	330	-29
67	Samuel Girard	COL	13.5	367	349	-18
68	Christian Djoos	WAS	13.0	375	356	-19
69	Dmitry Orlov	WAS	12.3	383	314	-69
70	Esa Lindell	DAL	12.3	385	400	15
71	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	11.9	389	388	-1
72	Dennis Cholowski	DET	11.7	392	406	14
73	Adam Boqvist	CHI	11.4	395	379	-16
74	Marc-Edouard Vlasic	SJS	11.0	400	386	-14
75	Erik Brannstrom	VGK	10.6	405	392	-13
76	Alex Goligoski	ARI	10.4	406	393	-13
77	Duncan Keith	CHI	10.1	407	397	-10
78	Cale Makar	COL	10.1	409	399	-10
79	Darnell Nurse	EDM	9.9	410	401	-9
80	Matt Niskanen	WAS	9.8	412	403	-9
81	Derrick Pouliot	VAN	9.7	413	390	-23
82	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	9.7	414	404	-10
83	Filip Hronek	DET	9.4	416	419	3
84	Juuso Valimaki	CGY	9.2	419	410	-9
85	Justin Faulk	CAR	9.2	421	412	-9
86	Nikita Zadorov	COL	9.1	422	413	-9
87	Jake McCabe	BUF	8.7	424	435	11
88	Erik Gustafsson	CHI	8.3	428	423	-5
89	Kale Clague	LAK	8.2	429	424	-5
90	Sami Niku	WPG	8.2	432	427	-5
91	Mike Green	DET	8.0	437	431	-6
92	Conor Timmins	COL	7.9	438	432	-6
93	Travis Sanheim	PHI	7.6	441	438	-3
94	Nate Schmidt	VGK	7.4	445	444	-1
95	Timothy Liljegren	TOR	7.3	446	446	0
96	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	7.3	447	447	0
97	Travis Dermott	TOR	7.2	450	450	0
98	Alexander Edler	VAN	6.8	456	454	-2
99	Dante Fabbro	NSH	6.7	468	466	-2
100	Josh Manson	ANA	6.5	458	395	-63

UPCOMING GAMES

Nov 16 - 13:11	BOS	vs	STL
Nov 16 - 16:11	SEA	vs	NYI
Nov 16 - 19:11	CAR	vs	OTT
Nov 16 - 19:11	T.B	vs	N.J
Nov 16 - 19:11	PHI	vs	BUF
Nov 16 - 19:11	MTL	vs	CBJ
Nov 16 - 19:11	FLA	vs	WPG
Nov 16 - 19:11	TOR	vs	EDM
Nov 16 - 19:11	PIT	vs	S.J
Nov 16 - 20:11	MIN	vs	DAL
Nov 16 - 20:11	L.A	vs	DET
Nov 16 - 22:11	VAN	vs	CHI