(Editor's Note: due to the expected volume of content Monday, we are posting the Wild West a half day earlier) As everyone’s seasons start to wind down these last few weeks are key for anyone in the hunt for a playoff spot or a playoff bye. In honor of that need we turn to [...]
We will have a little bit of a change in format this week. The trade deadline is fast approaching and that means we are inundated with trade and contract speculations. It is hard to know how much weight to put in any of it. For the West I have tried to sort teams into Buyers [...]
Now that we are approaching the middle of February, it is time for some of you to be thinking about what the playoffs might bring. For those of you who are reasonably confident you have the team you need to make the playoffs paying attention ahead of time can set you up to to [...]
Before the break, and team’s bye weeks, we were looking at player time on ice and using it to get an idea of who was rising and falling on the depth chart. We have a final installment of that idea, but this week are going to touch on goalies. We are using much [...]
Let’s talk streamers. Every week I post two-ish streamers that I think are going to give you a chance to earn a few extra points. I want to take a moment during this rare downtime in the hockey fantasy world to share a bit about what I mean by recommending a streamer and take [...]
Last week we took a look at who in the West is gaining time both at all strengths and specifically on the power play. When players are adding time it is more likely they will be putting more stats on the board because they are increasing their opportunities to do so. This week we [...]
A couple of weeks ago we started to talk about players who were seeing changes in their total time on ice. I mentioned there would be more to come, and here is the next installment. What we are trying to capture is players who are seeing their deployment change so we can try and [...]
Welcome back to another week of the Wild West. Count this as another reminder to go a pick up the Midseason Guide due out soon. My portion takes a look at all of the teams and identifies some trends and historical production that should be helpful when analyzing players for the second half of [...]
The Wild West is back after a short hiatus to welcome my brand new baby boy to the family. In keeping with the column title, it has certainly been a wild two weeks, but I am glad to be back. To jump back in this week I ran some numbers to try to [...]
Welcome back to the Wild West. It's time for a sequel to last week's Over Performing Goal Scorers in the West. This week we are going to take a look at players who are under performing their expectations. Again credit to Sean Tierney for the vizzes, one of which we will look at below. [...]
