Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to analyze an ugly stat that many (including myself) don’t love to include in my multicategory leagues, but it’s still widely used – Plus-Minus. In general, players can be hurt in the plus-minus category based on their teammates’ poor [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to examine one key stat of penalty minutes (PIM). I’m going to review the top PIM leaders so far and where these PIM are coming from. I’ll explain which types of PIM are best and which players to target [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be revisiting my True Value Goalie Rankings to examine the goalie landscape. As we are just nearing the halfway point of the season, the True Value Rankings can shed light on what has happened in the first half and possibly what [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I’ll be taking a look at some players’ splits examining stats prior to the new year, and after the new year in a season. This could provide some insight into who may have a second half surge for the rest of the season. [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining shots. We’ll examine shot attempts, sometimes represented as individual Corsi For (iCF) – when a player shoots the puck toward the net, whether it hits it, misses, or gets blocked and shots on goal – when a player's shot [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining some bubble players. These are players that managers may have contemplated dropping in 10–12-man leagues. They had a nice start to the season, or a nice hot streak and found their way onto many rosters, but their recent play [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining the goalie landscape, specifically the ZeroG landscape. For those of you who are not aware, ZeroG is a strategy where you generally don’t invest early picks into goalies and pick up the scraps. Using these “scraps” tend to do [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I’ll be taking a look under the hood at some underperformers through the first quarter of the season. I’ll examine their underlying metrics and give my opinion on their rest of season potential. A few underlying metrics I’ll examine are individual shooting percentage [...]
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 [...]
