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

As always, players rated between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value.

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Def Rk	Player	Team	Rating	Nov	Oct	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	166.0	15	14	-1
2	Adam Fox	NYR	130.1	33	33	0
3	Roman Josi	NSH	128.2	36	29	-7
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	114.6	44	46	2
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	107.5	56	56	0
6	Morgan Rielly	TOR	106.0	60	54	-6
7	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	97.5	70	94	24
8	John Carlson	WAS	90.5	83	64	-19
9	Shea Theodore	VGK	82.8	94	87	-7
10	Tony DeAngelo	PHI	78.0	98	106	8
11	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	74.5	106	112	6
12	Devon Toews	COL	74.4	107	89	-18
13	Moritz Seider	DET	72.9	111	108	-3
14	Erik Karlsson	SJS	72.7	115	200	85
15	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	72.1	117	80	-37
16	Kris Letang	PIT	69.6	122	115	-7
17	Thomas Chabot	OTT	69.6	123	104	-19
18	Evan Bouchard	EDM	68.7	127	130	3
19	Dougie Hamilton	NJD	68.3	129	152	23
20	Zach Werenski	CBJ	65.2	135	117	-18
21	Noah Dobson	NYI	57.7	154	153	-1
22	Seth Jones	CHI	56.3	156	157	1
23	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	55.6	158	216	58
24	Tyson Barrie	EDM	54.5	163	174	11
25	Torey Krug	STL	52.1	171	155	-16
26	Brent Burns	CAR	50.5	175	193	18
27	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	49.3	180	173	-7
28	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	49.3	181	191	10
29	Drew Doughty	LAK	48.9	183	151	-32
30	Darnell Nurse	EDM	47.3	190	197	7
31	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	47.1	191	231	40
32	Samuel Girard	COL	44.1	198	189	-9
33	John Klingberg	ANA	42.8	201	160	-41
34	Josh Morrissey	WPG	41.5	207	228	21
35	Shayne Gostisbehere	ARI	40.6	210	257	47
36	Justin Faulk	STL	39.9	211	311	100
37	Filip Hronek	DET	38.9	214	219	5
38	Noah Hanifin	CGY	37.9	217	195	-22
39	Ivan Provorov	PHI	37.5	220	214	-6
40	Bowen Byram	COL	36.9	223	265	42
41	Gustav Forsling	FLA	36.7	224	218	-6
42	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	35.5	228	205	-23
43	Calen Addison	MIN	33.9	233	329	96
44	Neal Pionk	WPG	31.7	248	256	8
45	Mackenzie Weegar	CGY	30.0	254	250	-4
46	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	28.3	264	244	-20
47	Adam Boqvist	CBJ	26.7	275	230	-45
48	Vince Dunn	SEA	25.8	280	305	25
49	Jacob Trouba	NYR	25.3	283	278	-5
50	Damon Severson	NJD	25.0	284	210	-74
51	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	24.1	291	232	-59
52	Owen Power	BUF	23.2	298	290	-8
53	Brandon Montour	FLA	20.8	312	360	48
54	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	19.9	320	319	-1
55	Simon Nemec	NJD	19.5	324	325	1
56	Ty Smith	PIT	19.1	332	315	-17
57	Brady Skjei	CAR	18.3	342	347	5
58	Rasmus Sandin	TOR	18.2	343	332	-11
59	Sean Durzi	LAK	16.5	359	439	80
60	Nils Lundkvist	DAL	16.4	360	371	11
61	Cam Fowler	ANA	16.3	363	373	10
62	Scott Perunovich	STL	16.2	364	270	-94
63	Janis Moser	ARI	16.1	367	522	155
64	Mike Matheson	MON	16.0	369	343	-26
65	Colton Parayko	STL	15.3	381	335	-46

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

Kaiden Guhle	MON	Dante Fabbro	NSH
Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	Juuso Valimaki	ARI
Hampus Lindholm	BOS	Victor Soderstrom	ARI
Jake Bean	CBJ	Henri Jokiharju	BUF
Oliver Kylington	CGY	John Marino	NJD
Jordan Spence	LAK	Jake Sanderson	OTT
Matt Dumba	MIN	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Mattias Ekholm	NSH	Jeff Petry	PIT
Ryan Pulock	NYI	Ryan Merkley	SJS
K’Andre Miller	NYR	Victor Mete	TOR
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Jack Rathbone	VAN
Travis Sanheim	PHI	Dmitry Orlov	WAS
Ethan Bear	VAN

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

Alexander Romanov	NYI	Rasmus Ristolainen	PHI
Josh Mahura	FLA	Jacob Bryson	BUF
Brandt Clarke	LAK	Brett Pesce	CAR
Matt Roy	LAK	Scott Morrow	CAR
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Vladislav Gavrikov	CBJ
Ryan Graves	NJD	David Jiricek	CBJ
Luke Hughes	NJD	Nick Blankenburg	CBJ
Alexandre Carrier	NSH	Esa Lindell	DAL
Robin Salo	NYI	Thomas Harley	DAL
Zac Jones	NYR	Simon Edvinsson	DET
Cam York	PHI	Justin Barron	MON
Erik Cernak	TBL	Braden Schneider	NYR
Timothy Liljegren	TOR	Ryan Ellis	PHI
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	VAN	Yegor Zamula	PHI
Nicolas Hague	VGK	Cal Foote	TBL