In last week's edition of 'Analytics Advantage', there was analysis on how plus/minus can have a massive, and understated, impact on fantasy hockey value. There was also an analysis on how plus/minus fluctuates when a player changes teams. This week will pick up where we left off and apply what we discovered a week ago [...]
It’s time for my annual poll on overrated players. What is it exactly that makes one overrated, both in general and more so relative to other players? Average draft position is an objective barometer, as is actual versus predicted performance. But there is room to consider subjective factors such as name value versus true value, [...]
Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site [...]
This is part two of our series covering players set to become free agents on July 1st or at the end of 2025-26. Check out part one here. This week, we are going to look at Nashville, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Utah and Vancouver. We will also see how much salary cap space each [...]
Welcome back to Analytics Advantage. As we enter the final weeks of the fantasy season, savvy roster moves are more critical than ever. This week, we spotlight Pierre-Luc Dubois, Lane Hutson, Mika Zibanejad, Brock Boeser, and Morgan Rielly, five players who are either trending up, undervalued, or offer valuable multi-category upside for fantasy managers looking [...]
As Dimitri Filipovich said, “It’s Nikita Kucherov’s world, we’re all just lucky enough to live in it.” The 24-year-old Russian superstar has scored a goal in each of his first seven games of the season, joining Mario Lemieux as the only players to accomplish that feat in the past 30 years. Before [...]
