Welcome back to another week of Analytics Advantage. So far this season, we have been using this space to review which players have been gaining (or losing) the opportunity for meaningful fantasy production, and that theme continues today. Whether due to injury, trade, or under-performance, there is a constant churn of players gaining or losing [...]
We are nearly four weeks into the NHL season, and today’s write-up covers skaters worth streaming and goalies worth adding. We will be reviewing which skaters have four-game weeks, which goalies have had a good share of the starts, and finish by covering which skaters are getting meaningful power play time. Grab a drink or [...]
This week's analysis covers the last 10 seasons, 2016-17 to 2025-26, and one question. After seven games, which signals identify a waiver pickup who will be a fantasy starter the rest of the way? The answer is the first power-play unit. Forwards who were not fantasy starters the year before but were on PP1 after [...]
Tristan Luneau is playing 25 minutes a night on the Anaheim Ducks' top pair. That's more than seven more than my prospect model expected from a rookie with his draft slot and junior numbers, and the Ducks just signed him to a six-year extension after only 14 NHL games. ESPN has him on 7% of [...]
Opportunity Knocks: Week One's Best Jobs Are Still on the Waiver Wire Sean Durzi is on a roster in 3 percent of ESPN leagues. He’s played 22.1 minutes a night through two games with the New York Rangers, on the second pair, and that’s almost three minutes more than he averaged with the Utah Mammoth [...]
Four teams jumped more than 20 points last season. San Jose went from 52 points to 86, Buffalo from 79 to 109, Boston from 76 to 100 and Philadelphia from 76 to 98. Since 2006-07, 51 teams have made a jump like that, and on average they gained 27 points and gave 10 of them [...]
Same scoreboard, different engines The Dallas Stars scored 273 goals last season and the Anaheim Ducks scored 265, and they got there from opposite ends of the shot chart. Dallas took the fewest 5v5 attempts in the league (five a side, both goalies in net, and in regulation time), 49.4 per 60 minutes against a [...]
Noah Dobson and Shea Theodore are going three picks apart in Fantrax drafts this month. Dobson is the 24th defenseman off the board at an ADP of 94; Theodore is the 25th at 97. Both spent last season on their team's second power-play unit, Dobson behind Lane Hutson in Montreal, Theodore behind the five-forward top [...]
In last week's edition of 'Analytics Advantage', there was analysis on how plus/minus can have a massive, and understated, impact on fantasy hockey value. There was also an analysis on how plus/minus fluctuates when a player changes teams. This week will pick up where we left off and apply what we discovered a week ago [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber Hockey has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the [...]
