We are just a little over two weeks away from training camps beginning and fewer than six weeks from the start of the regular season. Time flies, Labour Day is almost here, so the fantasy hockey preparation is in full swing. I have begun to assemble my personal projections and want to discuss some early [...]
Dobber’s 2026-27 Fantasy Hockey Guide is now available in the Dobber Shop! A purchase includes the Guide itself, which features team-by-team overviews, a schedule breakdown, players due for positive and negative regression, long-term projects to invest in, and a whole lot more. Also included with the purchase is an interactive draft list that contains point [...]
Two forwards finish a season with the same point total, the same shot volume, the same power-play time. One plays on a team that wins 60% of its games; the other plays on a team that was selling by American Thanksgiving. In most fantasy formats those are not the same player — and the entire [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be looking back over regular season data and find out which players provided the most, and [...]
The concept of arbitrage is an important one in any fantasy sport. Its roots are from finance, but for fantasy sports drafts the concept is simple: where can I find value by drafting a player who has a similar outlook to another player but is being drafted lower? For example: if someone thinks that Moritz [...]
In yesterday’s Ramblings, I looked at a few players I thought have overvalued Average Draft Positions (ADP) so far this fantasy hockey draft season, including Mikko Rantanen and Victor Hedman. Today’s Ramblings will go in the other direction and look at some undervalued ADPs. These are based off my early personal projections and use six [...]
Over my previous four Ramblings, I looked at some of my preseason projections thus far. We went alphabetically by team with the first group looking at names like Leo Carlsson and Connor Bedard, the second group covering options like Thomas Harley and Trent Frederic, the third group had intriguing players like Luke Evangelista and Mathew [...]
Over my last three Ramblings, I have been previewing my preseason projections, showing one player per team as we make our way through the league. The first Ramblings covered Anaheim through Colorado, the second was Detroit through New Jersey, and the third was Nashville through Seattle. Today, we are finishing things off by going from [...]
Checking the news Thursday morning, I saw that the Carolina Hurricanes signed defenceman Oliver Kylington to a professional tryout (as well as forward Givani Smith). Kylington played just 19 games between Colorado and Anaheim last season, totaling five points. He sustained an upper-body injury at the end of November and did not return until early [...]
In Tuesday’s Ramblings, I started talking about my personal projections. I have written several Ramblings over the summer about doing season-long projections, and now we are going to finally talk about the (mostly) finished product. In those Tuesday Ramblings, we discussed the first eight teams in the league from Anaheim through Colorado. Today’s Ramblings will [...]
