Top 200 Cap League Skater Rankings – January 2021

Alexander MacLean

2021-01-25

The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters.

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Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league – January 25, 2021 edition. Usually this update would come mid-season, but since we're anywhere from one to six games into the season depending on who you cheer for, the fantasy values are still a little in flux. We still have our super ELC group at the top, but Nick Suzuki is a new name near the top of the list. He impressed to close out last season, and the upwards trajectory has continued into the new year. Tim Stützle has jumped ahead of Quinton Byfield, and Robert Thomas continues his ascension up the leaderboard. Meanwhile, at the bottom end, Alex Ovechkin hangs on to a top 200 spot for now, but this may be the last season that he does.

I have been tinkering with the formulas recently, and as a result the scale has jumped a little from previous iterations. This is also in part due to adapting the 82-game model to a 52-game set and balancing the values of a current shortened season against a possible full slate next year. I won't bore you too much with the details, but this is a constantly evolving model, so if you do have any questions then leave a comment and I will get back to it.

Standard pre-rankings note:

This isn't meant to be a be-all and end-all rating system for you to use without thinking and just trade your players for anyone above them on the list that you can find, but used with some foresight for managing salaries, I'm hoping that the list can help you mine value in trades and at the draft table.

The assumed league setup is for points-only leagues, with a salary allotment of approximately $73 million per team (10% of the NHL's $81.5 million being allocated for goalies), for 12 forwards and six defensemen per roster, amongst a range from eight to 14 teams (completely covered by the top 200 list). Cap hit is used for the player cost, so if your league uses salary or AAV, please account for that, as it can greatly change the impact of rookies. The rankings are set up so as to provide the most value in the current season, while providing some value in future years, based on modeling for predicted salary increases and production growth.

For those of you with variations from this setup, whether in terms of number of teams, salary space, roster positions, or scoring categories, you can make your own personal tweaks to move players up or down as necessary. This list is made to be a baseline guide for player evaluation, and to promote discussion and understanding of how to optimize rosters in a cap league setting.

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If you note a mistake, or have any further questions about the ranking system, please let me know. You can find me on Twitter here @alexdmaclean. I'm not perfect, and the rankings won't be either. Comments help with optimizing the values.

We're sticking with the +/- 5.0 rating that Dobber uses on all of his rating schemes as the range for approximately equivalent value. The skater and goalie rankings are synched so that the value of a skater against a goalie can be compared.

All salary info is courtesy of capfriendly. Without further ado, the rankings:

RankNameAgePosCap HitYrsRating
1Cale Makar22D$880,8331339.91
2Quinn Hughes21D$916,6661330.18
3Elias Pettersson22F$925,0001313.04
4Andrei Svechnikov20F$925,0001285.67
5Adam Fox22D$925,0002274.13
6Nick Suzuki21F$863,3332255.28
7Rasmus Dahlin20D$925,0001250.76
8Leon Draisaitl25F$8,500,0005237.35
9Nathan MacKinnon25F$6,300,0003235.81
10Miro Heiskanen21D$894,1661221.01
11Jack Hughes19F$925,0002218.85
12Filip Hronek23D$714,1661216.86
13Conor Garland24F$775,0001209.51
14Kirill Kaprizov23F$925,0001207.80
15Alexis Lafreniere19F$925,0003206.28
16John Carlson31D$8,000,0006201.94
17Robert Thomas21F$894,1661200.17
18Brady Tkachuk21F$925,0001199.76
19Martin Necas22F$863,3332197.80
20Kaapo Kakko19F$925,0002197.27
21Kailer Yamamoto22F$894,1661193.54
22Mika Zibanejad27F$5,350,0002193.03
23Connor McDavid24F$12,500,0006190.86
24Jonathan Huberdeau27F$5,900,0003190.11
25Neal Pionk25D$3,000,0001186.55
26David Pastrnak24F$6,666,6663185.88
27Brad Marchand32F$6,125,0005184.97
28Dougie Hamilton27D$5,750,0001184.45
29Tim Stützle19F$925,0003181.33
30Mark Scheifele27F$6,125,0004178.99
31Anthony DeAngelo25D$4,800,0002177.28
32J.T. Miller27F$5,250,0003176.71
33Joel Farabee20F$925,0002170.19
34Jake Guentzel26F$6,000,0004170.05
35Shea Theodore25D$5,200,0005168.51
36Quinton Byfield18F$925,0003168.38
37Roman Josi30D$9,059,0008166.53
38Artemi Panarin29F$11,642,8576164.71
39Kyle Connor24F$7,142,8576164.61
40Victor Hedman30D$7,875,0005164.33
41Bryan Rust28F$3,500,0002164.07
42John Marino23D$925,0001163.67
43Dylan Cozens19F$925,0003162.83
44Gabriel Vilardi21F$894,1672159.02
45Barrett Hayton20F$894,1672158.91
46Aleksander Barkov25F$5,900,0002158.67
47Kevin Fiala24F$3,000,0001157.29
48Adam Boqvist20D$894,1672157.17
49Ilya Mikheyev26F$1,645,0002156.76
50Brayden Point24F$6,750,0002156.25
51Travis Konecny23F$5,500,0005156.15
52Jack Eichel24F$10,000,0006155.93
53Ryan Ellis30D$6,250,0007154.71
54Victor Olofsson25F$3,050,0002154.23
55Cody Glass21F$863,3332154.06
56Torey Krug29D$6,500,0007153.05
57Filip Zadina21F$894,1672152.80
58Drake Batherson22F$736,6661151.83
59Sean Couturier28F$4,333,3332151.33
60Morgan Frost21F$863,3332150.52
61Teuvo Teravainen26F$5,400,0004149.93
62Adam Gaudette24F$950,0001148.37
63Marco Rossi19F$925,0003148.00
64Jakub Vrana24F$3,350,0001147.22
65Zach Werenski23D$5,000,0002147.00
66Noah Dobson21D$894,1672146.91
67Bowen Byram19D$925,0003145.13
68Mikko Rantanen24F$9,250,0005144.83
69Kirby Dach20F$925,0002144.24
70Tyson Barrie29D$3,750,0001144.12
71Gabriel Landeskog28F$5,571,4291143.78
72Oliver Bjorkstrand25F$2,500,0001143.47
73Elias Lindholm26F$4,850,0004143.23
74Evgeni Malkin34F$9,500,0002142.67
75Trevor Zegras19F$925,0003142.58
76Auston Matthews23F$11,640,2504142.55
77Bobby Ryan33F$1,000,0001142.39
78Anthony Duclair25F$1,700,0001141.50
79Seth Jones26D$5,400,0002140.76
80John Klingberg28D$4,250,0002140.75
81Tomas Hertl27F$5,625,0002140.12
82Dominik Kahun25F$975,0001139.59
83Lucas Raymond18F2020 Draftee0139.56
84Johnny Gaudreau27F$6,750,0002139.43
85Anthony Mantha26F$5,700,0004139.32
86Mikhail Grigorenko26F$1,200,0001138.84
87Dylan Strome23F$3,000,0002138.78
88Mike Hoffman31F$4,000,0001138.58
89Steven Stamkos30F$8,500,0004138.00
90Ryan Nugent-Hopkins27F$6,000,0001137.93
91Sidney Crosby33F$8,700,0005137.25
92Nikita Kucherov27F$9,500,0007137.21
93Patrick Kane32F$10,500,0003137.15
94Mitch Marner23F$10,903,0005136.78
95Nikolaj Ehlers24F$6,000,0005136.67
96Cole Perfetti19F$925,0003136.43
97Juuso Valimaki22D$894,1661136.36
98Patrik Laine22F$6,750,0001134.34
99Ryan Strome27F$4,500,0002133.89
100Mathew Barzal23F$7,000,0003133.88
101David Perron32F$4,000,0002133.65
102Erik Karlsson30D$11,500,0007132.69
103Bo Horvat25F$5,500,0003132.27
104Sebastian Aho23F$8,460,2504131.44
105Alex Pietrangelo31D$8,800,0007131.27
106William Nylander24F$6,962,3664131.09
107Dominik Kubalík25F$3,700,0002131.08
108Tyler Ennis31F$1,000,0001130.47
109Anthony Beauvillier23F$2,100,0001130.43
110Tomas Tatar30F$5,415,6021130.12
111Tyler Bertuzzi25F$3,500,0001129.92
112Matthew Tkachuk23F$7,000,0002129.47
113Pavel Buchnevich25F$3,250,0001129.30
114K’Andre Miller21D$925,0003129.05
115Erik Gustafsson28D$3,000,0001128.95
116Peyton Krebs19F$894,1673128.59
117Samuel Girard22D$5,000,0007128.33
118Nicolas Hague22D$791,6672127.53
119Matt Roy25D$700,0001127.39
120Ryan Pulock26D$5,000,0002126.45
121Morgan Rielly26D$5,000,0002126.44
122Alexandre Texier21F$897,5001126.07
123Aaron Ekblad24D$7,500,0005125.51
124Mark Stone28F$9,500,0007125.05
125Alex Turcotte19F$925,0003124.99
126Vince Dunn24D$1,875,0001124.51
127Dylan Larkin24F$6,100,0003124.02
128Thomas Chabot23D$8,000,0008123.64
129Mattias Ekholm30D$3,750,0002123.21
130Phillip Danault27F$3,083,3331123.08
131Ethan Bear23D$2,000,0002122.88
132Nick Robertson19F$821,6673122.75
133Jordan Kyrou22F$758,3331122.27
134Mikhail Sergachev22D$4,800,0003122.15
135Andreas Athanasiou26F$1,200,0001122.02
136Tyler Toffoli28F$4,250,0004121.44
137Alex Iafallo27F$2,425,0001121.38
138Jesperi Kotkaniemi20F$925,0001120.06
139Derick Brassard33F$1,000,0001119.90
140Zach Hyman28F$2,250,0001119.37
141Viktor Arvidsson27F$4,250,0004119.31
142Kris Letang33D$7,250,0002118.99
143Jeff Petry33D$5,500,0001118.73
144Nicolas Roy23F$750,0002118.61
145Devon Toews26D$4,100,0004118.57
146Brock Boeser23F$5,875,0002118.34
147Reilly Smith29F$5,000,0002117.43
148Jaccob Slavin26D$5,300,0005117.29
149Max Comtois22F$820,0001117.26
150Taylor Hall29F$8,000,0001117.09
151Adrian Kempe24F$2,000,0002117.05
152Jaime Drysdale18D$925,0003117.01
153Calle Jarnkrok29F$2,000,0002116.88
154Troy Terry23F$1,450,0003116.48
155Joel Eriksson Ek23F$1,487,5001116.47
156Rasmus Sandin20D$894,1672116.45
157Pierre-Luc Dubois22F$5,000,0002116.36
158Jaden Schwartz28F$5,350,0001116.27
159Vinnie Hinostroza26F$1,000,0001116.23
160Evan Bouchard21D$863,3333116.14
161Max Pacioretty32F$7,000,0003115.93
162Sam Reinhart25F$5,200,0001115.91
163Ryan O’Reilly29F$7,500,0003115.85
164Charlie McAvoy23D$4,900,0002115.77
165Nazem Kadri30F$4,500,0002115.72
166Sean Monahan26F$6,375,0003115.50
167Erik Haula29F$1,750,0001115.01
168Jordan Greenway23F$2,100,0002114.73
169Oskar Lindblom24F$3,000,0003114.25
170Brayden Schenn29F$6,500,0008113.95
171Lucas Wallmark25F$950,0001113.84
172Filip Forsberg26F$6,000,0002112.93
173Sean Walker26D$2,650,0004112.89
174Ivan Provorov24D$6,750,0006112.86
175Jason Spezza37F$700,0001112.60
176Darnell Nurse25D$5,600,0002112.54
177Erik Brannstrom21D$863,3332112.52
178Brendan Gallagher28F$3,750,0001112.13
179Sami Niku24D$725,0002111.63
180Andre Burakovsky25F$4,900,0002111.62
181Damon Severson26D$4,166,6663111.54
182Jakob Chychrun22D$4,600,0005111.54
183Joe Thornton41F$700,0001111.45
184Kevin Shattenkirk31D$3,900,0003111.30
185Filip Chytil21F$894,1661111.10
186Rickard Rakell27F$3,789,4442110.97
187Conor Sheary28F$735,0001110.86
188Jonathan Marchessault30F$5,000,0004110.82
189Ville Heinola19D$894,1673110.79
190Alex Galchenyuk26F$1,050,0001110.61
191Mike Reilly27D$1,500,0001110.52
192Anthony Cirelli23F$4,800,0003110.47
193Alex DeBrincat23F$6,400,0003110.41
194Josh Leivo27F$875,0001110.35
195Timo Meier24F$6,000,0003110.19
196Alex Ovechkin35F$9,538,4621109.53
197Drake Caggiula26F$700,0001109.51
198Sam Steel22F$863,3331109.46
199Grigori Denisenko20F$925,0003109.37
200Caleb Jones23D$875,0002109.13

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