Welcome back to Analytics Advantage! Draft season is in full swing, and it’s time to dive into the details that can give you the edge in your category-scoring leagues. This week, we’re taking a comprehensive look at six crucial categories—goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks, and plus-minus—to help distinguish the true game-changers from the rest of [...]
Be sure to pick up a copy of the 2024-25 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide! It is available for purchase in the Dobber Shop right now, and includes projections, depth charts, prospects to watch, and many articles worth consuming. Training camps are starting, and because this is an online-only edition, it allows Dobber to update constantly [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Let’s take a quick look at the list of PTOs, and note anyone who could have some fantasy relevance this upcoming season if signed. Tyson Barrie, CGY Barrie is the only one here who would be a presence on a team's top power play unit. He didn't fit at all in Nashville, but otherwise has [...]
Last week we dissected the Atlantic Division, ranking each team based on expected finish in the upcoming 2024-25 NHL campaign with this week’s Eastern Edge featuring the same process but for the Metropolitan. No disrespect to the Central or Pacific divisions, but there are a lot of improved young clubs on the rise in both [...]
It is full-on fantasy hockey draft season now. NHL rookie camps are in the rearview mirror and regular training camps start later this week. There are fewer than three weeks left until the season starts with the Stars and Panthers kicking things off in Europe on October 4th. Anyone looking to brush up on the [...]
We should look at each team in the Western Conference and see what players have been, or could be, an injury risk in 2024-25. This is such a contact sport that any player can be injured at any time, but these players seem to have either bad luck or a style that leads to more [...]
Fantasy hockey draft season has arrived. Say goodbye to the loved ones and household chores and hello to long hours in the basement poring over line combos and projections to get a leg up on the competition. Speaking of which, our latest top-10 rundown lands on the left wing, taking a look at the best [...]
In today’s Ramblings, I’ll share five tips to consider in your upcoming fantasy drafts. Let’s get right into it! 1) Maximizing Games Played - Light Nights ‘Light nights’ refer to days when there aren’t many games scheduled. For our purposes, we’ll use a threshold of eight games – meaning 16 or fewer NHL teams in [...]
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, Brennan Des and Dobber — The 2024-25 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is available in the Dobber Shop! The nice thing is that because it is digital-only, [...]
