Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be taking a look at peripheral categories (shots, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes). I’ll take a deep dive into how much value they actually bring to your fantasy team. Someone like Jeremy Lauzon may lead the league in hits, but he’ll [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be taking a look at power play metrics. I will highlight some sleepers who are getting great power play opportunities, but who are being slept on. In multicategory leagues, power-play points and maybe even power-play goals are usually included. Power play [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some players that fall at either end of the spectrum of exceeding expectations or falling far below them. For these players, we’ll take a look under the hood at some underlying metrics to see if their performances are sustainable [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some early Goalie performances, specifically their weekly consistency. If you are unfamiliar with my True Value constructs (Quality Weeks, Really Bad Weeks, and Star Weeks), I utilize these to model a Goalie’s True Value in head-to-head (H2H) category leagues. [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some early risers in peripheral categories. These players could be new or existing multicategory studs for your leagues that count shots on goal, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes. Kiefer Sherwood In Sherwood’s new role on the Canucks, he is [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! It is still a little early in the season and we don’t have much data to work with yet, but I will be diving into the world of shot attempts in this article and highlighting some early season surprises. We’ll examine shots on goal - when [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! I hope your offseason has been filled with some fun mock drafts, best ball drafts, projections, and hockey hype. In this week's article, we're diving into some preseason standouts and discussing their potential value in fantasy hockey multicat leagues for the upcoming season. While I don’t [...]
For the last 21 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 22nd 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 realm [...]
For the last 21 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 22nd 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 realm [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I am going to review some case studies of fantasy teams that utilized a Zero Goalie (ZeroG) approach. I will be directly comparing the Goalie Value in these strategies to the opposite strategy of drafting secure Goalies early. In ZeroG, you don’t [...]
