Geek of the Week

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! The fantasy playoffs are upon us for most. This coming fantasy week is a tricky one, with most teams playing three games, all on heavy nights. I’ll be presenting how to attack this week and highlighting some multicategory players that could be useful. This upcoming fantasy [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! Hits, blocks, and penalty minutes will be the topic of today’s article. I’ll be highlighting some multicategory studs that you should consider rostering in your banger leagues for the fantasy playoffs. If you need some help in these categories, here are three players that have upped [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to help you plan for your fantasy playoff matchups by tackling the toughest position to predict in fantasy hockey: the goaltender. Now if you’re sitting pretty with three solid starters on strong teams that you are happy starting in [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! With fantasy hockey trade deadlines upon us, I am going to bring up some undervalued players one last time. If your trade deadline is soon, this is quite literally your last chance to buy somewhat low. I expect each of these players to improve to finish [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to revisit my True Value Goalie Rankings for multicat leagues. I presented these rankings in a previous article if you’re interested. I’ll be reviewing goaltenders’ true value for category leagues so far this season using Quality Weeks, Really Bad [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! After writing quite a few articles commenting on the decreases in hits this season, we were left wondering whether gameplay has changed and people are hitting less, or if the counting of this stat has changed. Last week, the NHL decided to conduct a third-party audit [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! This season has been an interesting one for the three main banger cats (Hits, Blocks, and PIM). Hits are generally down, and there’s been some shifts in who have been true banger studs. I’m going to be examining some trends in these categories and seeing how [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! With the All-Star break upon us, I’d like to dive into some splits in this break over the last two seasons. Although it is not a halfway mark of the season, it seems to be a significant mark that splits the season into two. Players who [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to analyze a stat that I usually don’t love to include in my multicategory leagues, but it’s still widely used: plus-minus. In general, players can be hurt in this category based on their teammates’ poor play, but this stat [...]

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In a previous article, I brought up shooting percentage and percentage of shot attempts hitting the net as an indicator of “luck”. In this week’s article I will revisit this with a focus on shot attempts, to see who is really firing the puck towards the [...]