For the September edition of the Roto Rankings, we are pleased that Bangers Fantasy Hockey has returned with its pre-draft rankings for a second season! As a result, you will notice some major adjustments to our rankings from last month. Since Bangers Fantasy Hockey provides its rankings with or without penalty minutes, we have opted [...]
This week on Frozen Tools Forensics we are going to continue our review of players who are contributing across multiple potential fantasy categories. For this week it is time for defense. To gather the data for this review I ran the Multi-Category Report on the Dobber Reports page. This report gives us basic scoring information [...]
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 [...]
This week’s edition zooms out from individual player trends to the league itself. Over more than a century of NHL history, the numbers tell a clear story: the game changes in eras, not in a straight line. Scoring booms, defensive clamps, rule resets, and modern surges all leave their fingerprints on league-wide rates. The line [...]
This week sees rookie camps start across the league, and though the vast majority of participants will not have fantasy hockey relevance this year (or ever), there are key names that are going to be important for fantasy managers this season. Without getting too deep down the list, let’s get into some rookies that fantasy [...]
Hi everyone! My name is Lucas Main (@LAM1926 on X) and I will be taking over the Lining Up article this year. Here is my first stab at this, focusing on some of the acquisitions each team from the Western Conference made this offseason. Hope you enjoy! Pacific Division Anaheim Ducks - The Ducks brought [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Dustin Wolf has been the top goalie on our Cap League Goalie Rankings list for a little while now, but come next season he’s now due for a little slip down the list due to his big new extension. For the upcoming year, he’s still the best goalie bargain around on his small bridge contract, [...]
For the last 22 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber and the team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 23rd annual review has appeared here on DobberHockey throughout the summer, and concludes here with the Jets. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Eastern Edge! I’m Eli Feldman. Several weeks ago, Yahoo released its annual preseason rankings, a comprehensive list of all 1,494 players currently featured in its database. While the rankings serve as a helpful starting point on draft day, they will inevitably contain inaccuracies when viewed at [...]
