Fantasy Hockey Top 10

Impatience is too often one of the root causes of a fantasy team's downfall, and it's not just when dealing with younger players taking a while to break out. Veterans who struggle, either on the ice or with injuries, are often discarded too quickly. Fantasy GMs believe these players have lost a step, have been [...]

One of the things I love about the keeper leagues I participate in is the uniqueness of a couple of rules.  I've been in leagues that are straightforward keeper leagues, which are great but always seemed to be lacking something that made them stand out.  I know there are plenty of people who prefer the [...]

Let the fantasy season begin! That's the thought that goes through many fantasy hockey general managers when Yahoo opens up its fantasy hockey website.  I've always said that the opening of Yahoo is the unofficial start of the fantasy season, and you can see it start to reflect in some of Yahoo's rankings. Already there [...]

Last week, Yahoo! opened its NHL fantasy website, which gives many fantasy hockey general managers a great option to get a glimpse of how the fantasy general public feels about certain players.  Maybe the best aspect of Yahoo fantasy is its mock drafts. This gives you a chance to see where players are ranked in [...]

Once again for Dobber's fantasy guide, I contributed a column talking about 20 non-rookie players who probably won't do much this season, but will be awesome in a few years. Normally when I finish this column for the guide, I have a grouping of leftover players that didn't make the final list as there are [...]

Some believe that youth is king in fantasy hockey, but that doesn't make all youth guaranteed keepers. Last week, Dobber writers focused on bubble keepers for many of their leagues. In my column, I looked at the top 10 bubble keepers in points-only leagues.  It wasn't until after the column was submitted that I realized [...]

One of the most difficult decisions a fantasy general manager faces is deciding which players to keep each season. It doesn't matter if it's a keep-three, keep-10, or keep-25, you're racking your brains over whether to keep a productive veteran on the downside of his career versus the up-and-coming player that hasn't broken out yet. [...]

Most years in dynasty fantasy leagues, there is debate on who to select first overall. Whoever had the first overall pick last year, for example, could have gone with Shane Wright, Simon Nemec or Juraj Slafkovsky, and none would have been the incorrect choice. The year before, any of Owen Power, Luke Hughes, Matty Beniers [...]

A few years ago, a Dobber reader named Striker brought forward the idea that the best system to determine a player's breakout threshold is to look at games played for specific-sized players.  You can get more information on the logic behind it here, but basically, it says that 80 per cent of players need 200 [...]

Even though many teams regret their free-agent signings less than a year later, there are a few moves that are great for fantasy hockey general managers. We all want to believe a player we have in a fantasy keeper league that has signed with a new team will excel; we twist all logic to try [...]