As the popular expression goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. All too often, fantasy general managers can be found to be the fools, trusting players to bounce back to heights that are normally too high to begin with. We have seen this with Mathew Barzal for the past [...]
The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Last week I updated Tampa’s roster for the Tyler Motte signing, put in my Top 50 Calder favorites, and the projected NHL standings, as well as the latest tryouts. Business is about to pick up in the NHL – and those updates [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** John Klingberg (now with TOR) is an out-of-control power play thief. Everywhere he goes, he blocks young defensemen from getting well-deserved power play time. First it was Miro Heiskanen (DAL), [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean and Dobber — 1. There are always a few items in my fantasy guide that raise an eyebrow or two. I'll be making an appearance on [...]
First, an update on what I wrote yesterday. It appears that Yahoo has updated its forward positions to give some wingers their rightful designations. I’m not going to take credit for the update, simply because a) the update was probably in the works before the Ramblings were published, and b) others, such as Shayna Goldman, [...]
I don’t have any specific data on this, but Yahoo is probably the most-used fantasy hockey platform out there. That’s why it’s unfortunate when they can’t seem to get the positions right for a significant number of forwards. In particular, many wingers are listed as centers. Here’s an example: https://twitter.com/keepingkarlsson/status/1698785592249573601 I should start this by [...]
For the last 20 years (12 with The Hockey News), Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The site began these reviews on August 8, and today wraps up the 32nd team. These are not reviews of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but more in [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are diving into the Yahoo rankings. I try to include some sort of Yahoo thematic article every year as there is a significant number of folks that use Yahoo as their platform and there are always some significant odd balls in the projections. Getting an idea of some [...]
Be sure to head to the Dobber Shop to purchase your copy of the 2023-24 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide! It has projections, depth charts, prospect reviews, future outlooks, sleepers and busts, goalies to target, and a whole lot more. Because it’s an online copy, it is updated whenever we get new information like injuries, trades, [...]
The world of fantasy hockey is heavily driven by data and statistical analysis, including traditional metrics such as Zone Start Percentage (ZS%) and Corsi-For Percentage (CF%), standard tools that have been in use since the early to late 2000s. As time has passed and technology has advanced, new frontiers in analytics have emerged, with cutting-edge [...]
