Welcome back to another Thursday Capped article. I hope you’ve been finding some ways to enjoy yourself this summer. As you’re reading this, I’m up at a cottage probably sitting on the beach, unable to check the hockey scores. There are pros and cons to having hockey during the cottage months. **** One of [...]
We’re back with the “first round” of the playoffs in August, and we have the 23rd and 24th overall regular season teams playing games. We saw the fourth-longest game in NHL history on Tuesday night, prompting morning hockey on Wednesday. And, most shockingly, the Edmonton Oilers didn’t win a draft lottery. There’s a lot that [...]
Welcome back, I hope you’ve all been enjoying the non-stop hockey as much as I have. Who am I kidding, no one is enjoying this as much as I am! While you take a break either before the early start games, or in an intermission, here’s some reading material aimed at getting you to think [...]
We can count the time until hockey starts again in hours now, not days. Hopefully that doesn’t mean you all stop reading about it though. Whether or not there are games being played, the DobberSports crew is always pumping out new fantasy content. On that note, the Top 200 Cap League Skaters was updated just [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters. **** Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league - July 25 edition. Cale Makar has holds onto the pole position while a few 2020 draft eligible players make their debuts. The expected new contract for Taylor [...]
In the last few weeks I have put out some big topic articles that I’m going to link to again in case you missed them. First there was some deep dive research into salaries and rankings based on historical data relative to draft position – here. Then we shifted gears and went through some implications [...]
This week's Capped updates the salary projections for all of the relevant 2020 UFA and RFAs. **** After last week’s article where I covered some thoughts on how to manage your cap team this offseason with the stagnant salary cap, this week we’re going to stick with that same concept and look over salary projections [...]
Usually this article would be summarizing all of the puzzling signings made on July 1st, and applauding the teams that either made one shrewd signing, or generally opted out of the bidding wars. Alas, we just have the news of what the salary cap is likely to look like for the future bidding wars, whenever [...]
We have made it to July. The year of 2020 is half gone, and I think that’s the optimist’s way of looking at things. Two weeks ago, Jokke Nevalainen of our DobberProspects site put together an excellent analysis of the probabilities for the reward of different draft pick ranges (if you haven’t read it yet, [...]
Building on the feedback from last week’s article where I introduced the topic about things to be aware of when joining a salary cap league, this week I am going to dive a little deeper into specifics, including some of my own thoughts/numbers from joining an existing salary cap league last month. I’m going to [...]
