Capped: The Cap League Awards
This week's Capped awards the standard hardware to the deserving winners in cap leagues this season. […]
Big Money Disappointments
This week's Capped reviews some of the disappointing big-money players of the season. **** When things go wrong in your salary cap league, it can be due to not having enough low-cost support players, but it almost always means that your big stars just didn’t perform. This year was no different in that some [...]
How to Follow the Vegas Model
This week's Capped looks into what Vegas did right, and what may be coming for the upstart expansion franchise. **** With less than a month left in the regular season, it should be safe to officially say that the Vegas Golden Knights locking up a playoff spot (and likely the division title) is the [...]
Capped: Four Cheap Players to Consider for the Stretch Run
This week's Capped delves into a few names for you to consider adding in the stretch run. **** This kind of topic can be tough to make relevant for wide ranges of league types, as individual leagues vary greatly with keeper rules, size, and scoring, among other things. As a result, suggesting that one [...]
Capped: Fallout of the Hornqvist Extension and Other Recent Cap-Related Moves
Trade deadline day has come and gone, and we are all left wanting just a little bit more. However, as a fan of the Leafs and the Predators, I was content with the “Less is More” mantra that seemed to be followed by both teams. The Maple Leafs pulled off only one deal, for [...]
Four Goalies to Approach Differently Ahead of the Trade Deadline
This week's Capped covers some thoughts on goalies for the trade deadline. **** Trade deadline day is just around the corner. NHL GMs are going to be making tons of bad salary and player decisions, and we’re here to minimize the amount of bad choices that you make! Today we go through some goalie [...]
Four Defensemen to Approach Differently Before the Trade Deadline
This week's Capped covers some thoughts on defencemen for the trade deadline. **** It is surprising that there has been so little NHL action over the last few weeks, and it could make for a very intriguing last few days before the trade deadline on February 26th. As it stands, the market is flooded [...]
Four Forwards You Should Approach Differently Before the Trade Deadline
This week's Capped covers some thoughts from the 2018 calendar year that got missed during the projection series. **** I hope you all enjoyed the projection series that has run the last few weeks. It was a fun run through, and hopefully I can have the projection model providing a little more accuracy by [...]
Capped: Projecting Player Salaries – Part 5
This week's Capped finishes our series looking into how to project player salaries, with a few goalie projections. **** As outlined last week, I don’t yet have a working model for goaltenders, but I’m using the articles from this week and last to start off the thought process behind that section of the project. [...]
Capped: Projecting Player Salaries (Part 4)
This week's Capped continues our series with a look into projecting goalie salaries. **** I had a discussion on twitter during the past week between myself, Dobber DFS writer Chris Wassel, and a column reader, going back and forth about the potential contract coming up for Juuse Saros. Unfortunately, I have not gotten into [...]