Frozen Tool Forensics: Fantasy Playoff MVPs

The NHL playoff teams are officially sorted, and the season officially ends this weekend. For many fantasy managers their quest for glory has already concluded either because they have been eliminated, or their leagues finish prior this final week of the season to avoid the random end-of-season scratches. This week, we are going to take a look back over the fantasy playoff period at the players who best served us (and maybe a few who didn't).

There are some complicating factors here in that fantasy leagues don't all start on the same date, and clearly don't all end on the same date. For the purposes of this review, though, we are going to look at a month's worth of data starting on March 28. March 28 is the Monday that a lot of leagues started their playoffs, and we will be going through until April 28, as that is the date I was able to pull the data. For those of you still in the hunt until the final day, my apologies. There is still time for a fantastic performance to boost one of your players listed here. Even if the dates are not exactly what your league experienced, there should be enough overlap for the trends to hold true.

For those following along at home, I have exported two Multi-Category reports from the reports page. These reports contain basic scoring information as well as blocks, hits, and plus/minus. I used the Multi-Category reports as I am also relying on the basic Yahoo scoring system, which includes plus/minus (unfortunately) and blocks. Obviously if your league counts different categories, there will be variations in specific player values.

So without further ado:

Name	Position	Team	GP	G	A	SOG	PTS/G	Fantasy Pts
STEVEN STAMKOS	C	T.B	15	10	21	46	2.07	237.40
NIKITA KUCHEROV	R	T.B	15	13	18	39	2.07	227.10
AUSTON MATTHEWS	C	TOR	13	12	11	74	1.77	225.60
VLADIMIR TARASENKO	R	STL	17	13	14	50	1.59	225.00
CONNOR MCDAVID	C	EDM	14	9	16	63	1.79	215.70
PAVEL BUCHNEVICH	L	STL	17	9	17	39	1.53	212.10
KEVIN FIALA	L	MIN	16	11	14	53	1.56	204.70
ALEKSANDER BARKOV	C	FLA	15	11	13	47	1.60	203.30
JONATHAN HUBERDEAU	L	FLA	15	9	16	48	1.67	203.20
ROBERT THOMAS	C	STL	17	8	18	31	1.53	202.90

I must admit, I did not realize the extent to which some members of this list