With Yahoo opening its fantasy hockey website last week, many people have already gone through a dozen mock drafts. Mock drafts are an excellent tool for preparing for your regular league. As long as there aren’t too many inactive teams, after a while, you can get a good sense of trends and players that are [...]
Once again for the Dobber Fantasy Guide (which you can purchase here), I wrote a column about players to invest in for a long-term playoff. Basically, I wrote about 20 players (all non-rookies) that you should consider rostering knowing you won’t see much fantasy relevance from until at least 2020-21. When I write a column [...]
Last week, all of the writers here at DobberHockey have been talking about our top bubble players. We were given a list of about 144 players that were definite keepers (in other words, in a 12-team league, about 12 keepers each). There were plenty of great suggestions about bubble players (those that weren’t on the [...]
We are getting to that time of year when many fantasy general managers are faced with tough decisions: Who to keep in your keeper pools? In my main points-only keeper, I have to choose between Eric Staal, Adam Boqvist or Lias Andersson. I am leaning towards Boqvist since I need to rebuild slightly, but [...]
Fantasy general managers are, by nature, a very optimistic lot. We have a tendency to believe the best in the players we own, and that those players can continue to have huge success even when things are conspiring against them. Nowhere is this truer than during free agency and trading. However, things are not always [...]
While many fantasy hockey general managers are still focused on where available unrestricted free agents might still sign and for how much, there could still be some battles left to follow. Forty players have filed for arbitration (although Cedric Paquette agreed to terms with the Lightning after filing, so there are 39 names left) [...]
There are all sorts of statistics that can show whether a player should bounce back or regress next season, but one of the simplest, and my personal favourite, is to look at shooting percentage. If a player’s shooting percentage went through the roof for whatever reason, there should be reason to be concerned for [...]
For many hockey fantasy general managers, the next two weeks are like Christmas. To start, there’s the NHL draft this weekend (for great coverage, visit Dobber Prospects and don’t forget to pick up a copy of Dobber’s 2019 Fantasy Prospects Report as well). Then there’s free agency in two weeks. Both of these events tend [...]
