Here are the Top 120 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – September edition!

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As always, any player ranked within +/- 5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal.

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*Tony DeAngelo’s situation cannot be captured in my formula. He’s either going to get 60 points and be a top own in points-only leagues, or a bust. No grey. And I’m 50-50 on how he will do. So in this special circumstance I took 40% of his value found in the Top 300 Keeper League Skaters list (the extra 10% is to be extra-careful) and adjusted him on this list accordingly. I don’t know how else to properly measure his value. He’s the poster-boy for “boom or bust” players.

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Sep	Aug	Change
1	John Carlson	WAS	115.8	33	39	-6
2	Cale Makar	COL	115.3	34	34	0
3	Adam Fox	NYR	104.4	45	35	10
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	96.4	52	45	7
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	96.4	53	52	1
6	Roman Josi	NSH	91.6	60	67	-7
7	Shea Theodore	VGK	91.3	62	61	1
8	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	88.9	66	74	-8
9	Tyson Barrie	EDM	83.9	74	76	-2
10	Thomas Chabot	OTT	83.9	75	92	-17
11	Morgan Rielly	TOR	78.3	86	59	27
12	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	75.5	94	99	-5
13	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	69.8	104	124	-20
14	Kris Letang	PIT	66.5	111	121	-10
15	Torey Krug	STL	63.8	115	114	1
16	Seth Jones	CHI	62.6	118	120	-2
17	Zach Werenski	CBJ	58.9	127	135	-8
18	John Klingberg	DAL	56.1	136	116	20
19	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	56.1	137	141	-4
20	Samuel Girard	COL	55.2	138	134	4
21	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	49.5	156	180	-24
22	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	49.4	159	149	10
23	Darnell Nurse	EDM	48.1	165	155	10
24	Neal Pionk	WPG	47.2	169	194	-25
25	Ivan Provorov	PHI	46.4	173	170	3
26	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	45.1	180	178	2
27	Drew Doughty	LAK	42.8	187	172	15
28	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	42.7	188	196	-8
29	Filip Hronek	DET	41.6	194	187	7
30	Jeff Petry	MON	41.1	196	227	-31
31	Erik Karlsson	SJS	38.7	205	182	23
32	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	34.9	213	212	1
33	Ty Smith	NJD	30.7	228	192	36
34	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	30.4	230	285	-55
35	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	29.1	232	283	-51
36	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	29.1	233	229	4
37	Brent Burns	SJS	28.1	237	217	20
38	Matt Dumba	MIN	28.0	238	260	-22
39	Ryan Pulock	NYI	27.8	242	298	-56
40	Devon Toews	COL	27.6	246	237	9
41	Ryan Ellis	PHI	27.3	248	234	14
42	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	26.0	255	322	-67
43	Evan Bouchard	EDM	24.5	263	290	-27
44	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	23.6	266	344	-78
45	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	21.0	287	251	36
46	Tony DeAngelo*	CAR	21.0	146	221	-75
47	Josh Morrissey	WPG	20.8	291	224	67
48	Damon Severson	NJD	20.5	293	311	-18
49	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	20.5	294	268	26
50	Ryan Merkley	SJS	20.4	295	364	-69
51	Vince Dunn	SEA	19.1	313	393	-80
52	Erik Brannstrom	OTT	19.1	314	427	-113
53	Colton Parayko	STL	18.7	322	408	-86
54	Noah Hanifin	CGY	18.2	328	439	-111
55	Nick Leddy	DET	17.8	331	418	-87
56	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI	17.4	341	346	-5
57	Bowen Byram	COL	16.9	349	353	-4
58	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	16.7	358	356	2
59	Nils Lundkvist	NYR	16.5	362	416	-54
60	Jake Muzzin	TOR	15.6	375	433	-58
61	Travis Sanheim	PHI	15.1	379	357	22
62	Keith Yandle	PHI	14.7	383	341	42
63	Alexander Romanov	MON	14.2	388	415	-27
64	Gustav Forsling	FLA	14.1	390	314	76
65	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	14.1	391	417	-26

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

Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Conor Timmins	ARI
Will Butcher	BUF	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Ethan Bear	CAR	Jake Bean	CBJ
Juuso Valimaki	CGY	P.K. Subban	NJD
Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI	David Farrance	NSH
Brandon Montour	FLA	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Noah Dobson	NYI
Jacob Trouba	NYR	Erik Cernak	TBL
Mike Matheson	PIT	Travis Dermott	TOR
Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT	Rasmus Sandin	TOR
Scott Perunovich	STL	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Erik Gustafsson	UFA	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS
Dmitry Orlov	WAS	Moritz Seider	DET

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

Josh Mahura	ANA	Brett Pesce	CAR
Cam Fowler	ANA	Nicolas Beaudin	CHI
Mike Reilly	BOS	Caleb Jones	CHI
Oliver Kylington	CGY	Ryan Suter	DAL
Esa Lindell	DAL	Max Gildon	FLA
Sean Walker	LAK	Ryan Graves	NJD
Josh Brook	MON	Philippe Myers	NSH
Robin Salo	NYI	Victor Mete	OTT
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Marcus Pettersson	PIT
Cameron York	PHI	Dennis Cholowski	SEA
Justin Faulk	STL	Mario Ferraro	SJS
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	TJ Brodie	TOR
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Alec Martinez	VGK
Jack Rathbone	VAN	Dylan Coghlan	VGK
Justin Schultz	WAS	Ville Heinola	WPG

Starting Goalies

Top Skater Views

	Players	Team
	RYAN LEONARD	WSH
	NAZEM KADRI	COL
	OWEN TIPPETT	PHI
	ROOPE HINTZ	DAL
	ALEX LAFERRIERE	L.A

Top Goalie Profile Views

	Players	Team
	JAKUB DOBES	MTL
	JET GREAVES	CBJ
	KAREL VEJMELKA	UTA
	LINUS ULLMARK	OTT
	JESPER WALLSTEDT	MIN

LINE COMBOS

	Frequency	N.J Players
	25.7	JACK HUGHES CONNOR BROWN JESPER BRATT
	25.1	DAWSON MERCER TIMO MEIER NICO HISCHIER
	11.4	MAXIM TSYPLAKOV CODY GLASS NICK BJUGSTAD

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