Given that we are in the midst of draft season, we are going to turn our attention to some more specific draft data and subject you all to a bit of my own drafting philosophy. The focus for this week will be those end of draft swings - but more on that in a minute. [...]
Rasmus Sandin and the Leafs have finally agreed on a contract, a two-year deal with a $1.4 million cap hit. Injuries on defense may have expedited the signing (more on that in a bit). In the end, Sandin has signed a contract with the same cap hit and term as fellow young d-man Timothy Liljegren. [...]
My favorite time of year is upon us, the fantasy draft season and with that comes plenty of talent evaluations to become prepared for your league’s draft. There are so many players to go around so it can become overwhelming at times, especially if you’re doing a conventional drafting format where you have about two [...]
My last few Ramblings have discussed projections I’ve made for the 2022-23 fantasy hockey season and we’re continuing that trend today. On Tuesday, we went over some players that I wrote of often throughout the summer and how they fared in my projections. Today will be more of the same but we’re going to focus [...]
Last season 44 skaters produced at a point per game pace while appearing in at least half of their team’s games. Of them, 13 hit that threshold for the first time in their careers. If you were astute enough to grab them, you likely did well in your leagues, as in doing so most exceeded [...]
If you’re reading this then odds are that you’re in at least one fantasy hockey league, and you’re now really ramping up for the NHL season. What that means differs from person to person. Maybe it means you’re re-ranking your top-500 draft options for the 4,762nd time, or maybe it means you’re printing off last [...]
This week, Grant Campbell and I organized the league’s forwards into tiers based on projected fantasy value this season. Grant covers the Western Conference here at DobberHockey, and you can check out his forward tiers in the West over here. Below, you’ll find my tiered ranking of forwards in the East. There’s some subjectivity baked [...]
Last week, my Ramblings discussed my projections that I have started cobbling together. My first run of projections covered overall value in a multi-cat league that includes goals, assists, power-play points, shots, blocks, and hits. There was a method used to value each player’s contributions (or lack thereof) in each category to try and assess [...]
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West and East, it is time to move on to the forwards. I will start with the Western Conference below. There are a lot more forwards than defense, so we will only expand on the first five tiers this week. Tier 1 Connor McDavid [...]
There is usually less change with the goalies than the skaters, but when there is a change the leaps forwards or backwards are much bigger. The movement can be accounted for with new contracts (Ilya Samsonov and Marc-Andre Fleury), injuries (the Vegas group), or a large change in projections. Trades have opened up slots for [...]
