Ed. Note: This is the second instalment in a series in which we’ll look at different aspects of the NHL game and how to value them appropriately in your fantasy league scoring, with the objective of creating scoring systems that reflect real life value as closely as possible. Click here for Part 1: The Power Game.
Ed. Note: This is the first installment in a series in which we’ll look at different aspects of the NHL game and how to value them appropriately in your fantasy league scoring, with the objective of creating scoring systems that reflect real life value as closely as possible.
Ed. Note: This article marks the first instalment of The Commissioner’s Office, a new regular column on DobberHockey that will examine issues that concern fantasy league commissioners – but hopefully will be of interest to all readers. In the months ahead, we’ll be looking at league and draft formats, the plusses and minuses of counting various scoring categories, rule debates, dispute resolution, boosting GM interest and involvement, and much more. Today’s piece is reprinted from a couple years ago, but serves as a fitting kick-off.
There are hockey pools... and then there are fantasy leagues.
Click here to learn more about Dobber's 2010-11 Fantasy Guide - a must have if you hope to rule your pool! Click here to BUY NOW!!! More adventures...20102009
Click here to learn more about Dobber's 2010-11 Fantasy Guide - a must have if you hope to rule your pool! Click here to BUY NOW!!! More adventures...20102007
Click here to learn more about Dobber's 2010-11 Fantasy Guide - a must have if you hope to rule your pool! Click here to BUY NOW!!! More adventures...20092007
There are hockey pools... and then there are fantasy leagues.
There are thousands of people out there who are content with joining a run-of-the-mill pool, whose self-esteem and personal happiness aren’t tied up in the performance of their team. You know the type... twenty minutes before the office draft, they can be found frantically trying to print off last year’s stats from NHL.com. During the draft they say things like, “I thought Marian Hossa plays for Pittsburgh,” and then they try to draft Joe Sakic, not realizing that he just retired. In other words, they don’t take their fantasy hockey all that seriously... not that there’s anything wrong with that.
