Welcome back, hockey fanatics. To all my fellow Canadians, I hope you had a great Canada Day, and as for all of the readers hailing from the USA, happy Fourth of July. Has last week's draft lottery finally sunk in yet? What a ray of light for the league after a few dark gloomy months. [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! In this episode Elan is joined by Harman Dayal, beat writer [...]
Given that it sounds like the NHL is thinking about delaying the playoff plan, and potentially shortening preseason it gives us a bit more time to dive into some numbers from 2019-20. Prospects certainly aren’t my area of expertise (go to Dobber Prospects for that), but there are some really interesting options in Frozen Tools [...]
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition In case you missed the full Top 300 Keeper League Skaters list posted on Canada Day, you can find that here. As always, players with a rating +/- 5.0 of each other should be considered equal. Click on a [...]
We have made it to July. The year of 2020 is half gone, and I think that’s the optimist’s way of looking at things. Two weeks ago, Jokke Nevalainen of our DobberProspects site put together an excellent analysis of the probabilities for the reward of different draft pick ranges (if you haven’t read it yet, [...]
Happy Canada Day! Here are the top skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! As always, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of team need or personal preference. These are for points-only leagues that don't have [...]
Welcome back to your monthly installment of Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, which, for new readers, is a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Here though, instead of there being three bowls of porridge I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss a few players that were overrated in fantasy hockey formats this season – players that didn’t perform well enough to justify their ADP (average draft position) in Yahoo leagues. As always, if there’s anything you’d like to see in future articles, please let me know in the comments [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! * In this episode Elan is joined by Murat Ates, beat [...]
Now that the NHL will soon be starting back up again, many fantasy leagues are also getting back underway. I’m in a cap league with 23 other Dobber forum members. Each team has $100 million to spend on 25 players (plus 15 prospects that don’t count against the cap while they are in the minors). [...]
