Ramblings: Nylander’s Homecoming; Sabres’ Power Play; Montour and Ekblad Return (Nov 18)
On Friday, William Nylander put on a show for friends, family and fans on home soil, tallying three points in game two of the NHL’s Global Series in Sweden. Although he was born in Canada, [...]
Looking Ahead: Lafreniere; Colton; Carolina & the Global Games
Welcome back! A little bit of a stranger NHL schedule this week, but that mostly has to do with the Global Games taking place. At least, for some clubs. I still for the life of [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Evaluating Multi-Category Defencemen
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are shifting gears a bit. So far we have been focused on trivial things like goal scoring and point production, but today we dig into peripheral categories, specifically [...]
Analytics Advantage: Demystifying and Using PDO to Find Fantasy Value
PDO is a key metric for evaluating player performance and is often used to measure luck or variance. While PDO can regress towards a league average, suggesting predictability, its interpretation requires caution. A high or [...]
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Ramblings: Pre-Season Checklist – Research, Management & Preparation (Sept 28)
If you’re reading this then odds are that you’re in at least one fantasy hockey league, and you’re now really ramping up for the NHL season. What that means differs from person to person. Maybe [...]
Eastern Edge: Forward Fantasy Tiers, From Matthews to Suter
This week, Grant Campbell and I organized the league’s forwards into tiers based on projected fantasy value this season. Grant covers the Western Conference here at DobberHockey, and you can check out his forward tiers [...]
Ramblings: Draft Values For Jarvis, Toffoli, Matheson, Bjorkstrand, and More; Updates on Boeser, Mangiapane and Khudobin – September 27
Last week, my Ramblings discussed my projections that I have started cobbling together. My first run of projections covered overall value in a multi-cat league that includes goals, assists, power-play points, shots, blocks, and hits. [...]
Wild West: Forward Tiers from McDavid to Eberle
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West and East, it is time to move on to the forwards. I will start with the Western Conference below. There are a lot [...]
Cap League Goalie Rankings – September 2022
There is usually less change with the goalies than the skaters, but when there is a change the leaps forwards or backwards are much bigger. The movement can be accounted for with new contracts (Ilya [...]
Top 10 Players Who Could Reach 40 Goals for the First Time
While 50 goals are the number most fantasy general managers drool over, scoring 40 goals in today's NHL is a great accomplishment. Only 37 players have scored 40 goals a season in the past 10 [...]