Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen

Dobber

2020-11-04

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

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As always, players between +/-5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs.

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Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	John Carlson	WAS	137.5	25	25	0
2	Cale Makar	COL	99.4	53	48	5
3	Roman Josi	NSH	98.0	54	60	-6
4	Morgan Rielly	TOR	96.1	58	53	5
5	Victor Hedman	TBL	95.3	59	55	4
6	Quinn Hughes	VAN	92.8	62	71	-9
7	Dougie Hamilton	CAR	91.1	65	67	-2
8	Erik Karlsson	SJS	87.1	73	76	-3
9	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	85.7	75	96	-21
10	Brent Burns	SJS	82.2	86	116	-30
11	Torey Krug	STL	80.4	88	93	-5
12	Thomas Chabot	OTT	76.6	94	113	-19
13	Tyson Barrie	EDM	74.6	98	124	-26
14	Shea Theodore	VGK	74.4	99	98	1
15	Tony DeAngelo	NYR	71.2	102	99	3
16	Zach Werenski	CBJ	69.5	107	109	-2
17	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	67.9	111	119	-8
18	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	61.8	125	101	24
19	Kris Letang	PIT	58.9	133	138	-5
20	Seth Jones	CBJ	57.6	137	121	16
21	John Klingberg	DAL	53.9	149	139	10
22	Erik Gustafsson	PHI	49.0	158	195	-37
23	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	44.1	170	187	-17
24	Adam Fox	NYR	43.2	172	205	-33
25	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	43.0	173	216	-43
26	Drew Doughty	LAK	42.6	175	158	17
27	Ivan Provorov	PHI	40.7	181	170	11
28	Keith Yandle	FLA	40.2	182	177	5
29	Ryan Pulock	NYI	39.5	186	180	6
30	Ryan Ellis	NSH	37.5	196	210	-14
31	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	37.2	198	233	-35
32	Neal Pionk	WPG	36.1	203	223	-20
33	Filip Hronek	DET	36.1	205	182	23
34	Josh Morrissey	WPG	36.0	206	201	5
35	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	35.2	210	174	36
36	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	33.0	217	241	-24
37	Matt Dumba	MIN	33.0	218	197	21
38	Darnell Nurse	EDM	32.5	219	245	-26
39	Ryan Suter	MIN	32.0	226	227	-1
40	Samuel Girard	COL	31.6	229	220	9
41	Mark Giordano	CGY	31.3	232	236	-4
42	Jacob Trouba	NYR	28.9	245	224	21
43	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	28.4	248	240	8
44	Devon Toews	COL	28.4	249	373	-124
45	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	26.3	263	247	16
46	Damon Severson	NJD	26.0	264	301	-37
47	Jeff Petry	MON	24.8	272	317	-45
48	Travis Sanheim	PHI	24.5	274	285	-11
49	Adam Boqvist	CHI	23.8	281	259	22
50	Colton Parayko	STL	22.1	292	333	-41
51	Evan Bouchard	EDM	21.7	296	308	-12
52	Mike Matheson	PIT	21.5	299	320	-21
53	Vince Dunn	STL	21.4	300	267	33
54	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	21.2	304	305	-1
55	Shea Weber	MON	19.8	318	228	90
56	Nate Schmidt	VAN	18.0	335	340	-5
57	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	17.7	343	381	-38
58	Will Butcher	NJD	17.2	349	324	25
59	Noah Hanifin	CGY	16.1	364	416	-52
60	Brandon Montour	BUF	15.7	370	278	92
61	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	15.6	374	387	-13
62	Bowen Byram	COL	14.2	392	413	-21
63	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	13.6	397	352	45
64	Alexander Romanov	MON	13.4	400	403	-3
65	P.K. Subban	NJD	13.1	402	366	36

The Next Group (gap between 66 and 90 is same as gap between 17 and 20 – i.e. they are pretty equal)

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Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Brady Skjei	CAR
Tyler Myers	VAN	Dennis Cholowski	DET
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Scott Perunovich	STL
Travis Dermott	TOR	Kale Clague	LAK
Ty Smith	NJD	Ryan Graves	COL
Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	TJ Brodie	TOR
Ethan Bear	EDM	Ian Mitchell	CHI
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Hampus Lindholm	ANA
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Alexander Edler	VAN
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	Ryan McDonagh	TBL
Sean Walker	LAK	Oscar Klefbom	EDM
Alexander Alexeyev	WAS

Vets who can chip in, injury risks, prospects with varying degrees of upside and wait time, other defensemen with lower upside and expectations but can chip in at times

Erik Cernak	TBL	Justin Schultz	WAS
Sami Niku	WPG	Dmitry Orlov	WAS
Jake Gardiner	CAR	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA
Mikko Lehtonen	TOR	Kyle Capobianco	ARI
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Ryan Merkley	SJS
Cam Fowler	ANA	Philippe Myers	PHI
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Timothy Liljegren	TOR
Jake Bean	CAR	Colin Miller	BUF
Noah Dobson	NYI	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Josh Mahura	ANA	Nick Leddy	NYI
Victor Mete	MON	Sami Vatanen	UFA
Conor Timmins	COL	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Caleb Jones	EDM	Matt Roy	LAK
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Jake McCabe	BUF
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Christian Djoos	ANA

UPCOMING GAMES

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Starting Goalies

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Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	BRAD MARCHAND	FLA
	SAM REINHART	FLA
	BOWEN BYRAM	BUF
	EVAN BOUCHARD	EDM
	SAM BENNETT	FLA

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JOHN GIBSON	ANA
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	DUSTIN WOLF	CGY
	ILYA SOROKIN	NYI
	ELVIS MERZLIKINS	CBJ

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	NYI Players
	22.5	KYLE PALMIERI ANDERS LEE BO HORVAT
	20.9	HUDSON FASCHING PIERRE ENGVALL CASEY CIZIKAS
	19.6	MAXIM TSYPLAKOV JEAN-GABRIEL PAGEAU SIMON HOLMSTROM

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