Cap League Goalie Rankings – January 2024

Alexander MacLean

2024-01-26

Now that he has had another run as the main starter for Vegas, Logan Thompson has regained his spot as the top fantasy goaltender in cap leagues. He could very well hold that spot for another year and a half until his contract expires, considering the production, the team, and the minimal cost. Even with having to share the crease with Adin Hill, it's tough to minimize just how good Thompson has been this season. It's too late to buy in on him now, but maybe getting your hands on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Samuel Ersson, Lukas Dostal, or even David Rittich (for his possible second-half run as the Kings' starter) is still a possibility.

On the flip side of the goalies, Andrei Vasilevskiy has slipped down the rankings a little as a result of his mid-season injury, while Connor Hellebuyck is making the most of his last year before his big extension kicks in. Unfortunately for his owners, Ilya Sorokin hasn't had the same kind of success in his last bargain year, and that's what makes him such a great buy-low for the second half. His owners are likely already looking to next year where his big extension will be kicking in, and that's where you come in with someone like Adin Hill or Ville Husso as the first part in a package to pry out a recent Vezina finalist primed to rebound in the second half. With goalies, we all know that the first half doesn't mean anything towards projecting the second half of the season, so don't rest on your laurels.

Standard pre-rankings note:

Cap hit is used for the player cost, so if your league uses salary or AAV, please account for that, as it can greatly change the impact of entry-level deals. The rankings are set up so as to provide the most value in the current season, while providing some value in future years, based on modeling for predicted salary increases and production growth.

The stats used for the goaltenders attempt to balance both ratio stats as well as volume. For those of you with variations towards either end of the spectrum, leaning more towards volume or rate stats, you will want to account for that change in value. Same thing goes for setting variations such as: number of teams, salary space, or roster positions. This list is made to be a baseline guide for player evaluation, and to promote discussion and understanding of how to optimize rosters in a cap league setting.

The goalie list comes not only with a value system, but with value tiers. The tiers (also computed by a formula of mine) represent a more general view on a goalie's value taking into account a few overarching factors. Cheap backups can have higher ratings but show up lower down the tier rankings. The high ranking is due to their low cap hits coupled with an established floor with some possible upside. The lower tier is a result of them having uncertain volume, and the lower likelihood of hitting their upside in any given year. In general, aim to have the highest rated players if you are looking to be most cap efficient, but use the tiers if you just want to focus on having the best goalies and you are comfortable paying a little more for that security (my preference is usually to lean towards the more cap efficient options because of how variable goalies can be).

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If you note a mistake, or have any further questions about the ranking system, please let me know. You can find me on Twitter here @alexdmaclean.

Comments help with optimizing the values, because they're not perfect and they never will be.

RankNameAgeCap HitYrsValueTierPrev Rnk
1Logan Thompson26$766,6672382.02111
2Alexandar Georgiev27$3,400,0002222.1911
3Connor Hellebuyck30$6,166,6661174.1418
4Igor Shesterkin28$5,666,6672167.6912
5Jake Oettinger25$4,000,0002159.9313
6Jeremy Swayman25$3,475,0001151.47114
7Linus Ullmark30$5,000,0002149.8516
8Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen24$837,5001198.94224
9Stuart Skinner25$2,600,0003187.26213
10Thatcher Demko28$5,000,0003170.52219
11Ilya Sorokin28$4,000,0001165.5524
12Juuse Saros28$5,000,0002158.7727
13Filip Gustavsson25$3,750,0003134.86215
14Vitek Vanecek28$3,400,0002129.1625
15Andrei Vasilevskiy29$9,500,0005119.0529
16Connor Ingram26$1,950,0003213.33333
17Martin Jones34$875,0001187.853NR
18Joseph Woll25$766,6672156.33316
19Tristan Jarry28$5,375,0005153.00325
20Antti Raanta34$1,500,0001152.27328
21Devon Levi22$925,0002143.63321
22Dustin Wolf22$814,166194.04322
23Joey Daccord27$1,200,0002225.274NR
24Cam Talbot36$1,000,0001211.27447
25Joel Hofer23$775,0002182.12423
26Lukas Dostal23$812,5002159.95443
27Alex Lyon31$900,0002158.574NR
28Samuel Ersson24$859,1671157.484NR
29David Rittich31$900,0001143.09431
30Sam Montembeault27$1,000,0001135.52426
31Jacob Markstrom33$6,000,0003128.58429
32Pyotr Kochetkov24$2,000,0004126.28446
33Jordan Binnington30$6,000,0004125.78432
34Adin Hill27$4,900,0002125.29418
35Petr Mrazek31$3,800,0001122.61434
36Darcy Kuemper33$5,250,0004122.51430
37Ville Husso28$4,750,0002113.78427
38Karel Vejmelka27$2,725,0002112.49417
39Joonas Korpisalo29$5,000,0005106.12436
40Philipp Grubauer32$5,900,0004103.63435
41John Gibson30$6,400,000498.67439
42Frederik Andersen34$3,400,000294.22412
43Ilya Samsonov26$3,550,000190.35410
44Jake Allen33$3,850,000289.40441
45Spencer Knight22$4,500,000367.48438
46Jesper Wallstedt21$925,000229.874NR
47Charlie Lindgren30$1,100,0002167.78548
48Jonathan Quick37$825,0001164.05550
49Scott Wedgewood31$1,000,0001148.68552
50Jonas Johansson28$775,0002147.82555
51Calvin Pickard31$762,5001114.135NR
52Mackenzie Blackwood27$2,350,0002112.31558
53Kaapo Kahkonen27$2,750,0001110.46554
54Sergei Bobrovsky35$10,000,0003109.60559
55Anton Forsberg31$2,750,0002109.46556
56Laurent Brossoit30$1,750,0001108.99557
57Akira Schmid23$850,8331105.26549
58Elvis Merzlikins29$5,400,0004100.47537
59Dan Vladar26$2,200,000288.89562
60Semyon Varlamov35$2,750,000485.475NR
61Ivan Prosvetov24$775,000182.74545
62Marc-Andre Fleury39$3,500,000180.83561
63Yaroslav Askarov21$925,000264.135NR

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