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. [...]
Welcome back to the Wild West. This week I spent some time poking around Sean Tierney’s vizzes and you should too. As you can see in the table below, these are the top ten players who are performing above their expected goals. In essence this is not the good list. Basically we are able [...]
In part two of our mini-series I wanted to take a look at multi-cat defensemen. Again, like with forwards, I started with guys that are typically valued very highly in those formats. We are of course talking about guys like Brent Burns, Dustin Byfuglien, Shea Weber etc. It turns out those three guys don’t [...]
This week I spent some time poking around the old Wild West Columns to see what types of things kept coming up. One theme that emerged was depth, particularly in leagues that count more categories (things like hits and blocks). The fabled multi-category stud. I struggled a bit with the definition of who that [...]
So this week I wanted to start with a slight deviation. I had something happen last week in one of my leagues that I am sure everyone who plays head-to-head category leagues is familiar with: I had a great week and got killed. This is a 12-team Yahoo League that uses 11 categories, and [...]
With our first month in the rearview, let’s take a quick look at how our goalies in the West are stacking up. We are using the Fantasy Hockey Geek (FHG) tool for rankings and the categories of save percentage, saves, goals against average, and wins. In our rankings below we have a player rank which [...]
Welcome to another week of the Wild West column. During the last week we have had goalie injuries, superstars returning, and some incredible goals from human highlight reel Connor McDavid. Let’s assume you know all of that and jump right in to some players. Potential Streaming Pickups: No teams in the west play four [...]
Celebrations in Anaheim this week as Ryan Getzlaf returns to join recently un-injured Ryan Kesler and the Ducks. The returns just serve to highlight the incredible number of man games lost to injuries so far for the Ducks. The Ducks have played nine games so far and we are looking at 38 man games [...]
