Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of Geek of the Week. We all just got an extra hour of sleep to help with the sugar crash from Halloween, and now it is time to talk some hockey. This week we will be looking at some standouts from the early part of the AHL [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Geek of the Week. I thought it would be fun this week to look at some of the anomalies of the season so far. From the breakout performances to the head scratching ones, anomalies are some of the most important data points to sift through for [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of Geek of the Week. We are wrapping up the second weekend of hockey action. Unless you are a Calgary Flames fan, it has been a great start to the year. This week we will be looking at some standouts on waivers based on Yahoo percentages who [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Geek of the Week. We are wrapping up the first weekend of hockey action and it has been a great start from historic rookie performances to insane saves by veteran goalies. For our second edition, I thought it would be fun to completely overreact to some [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another season of Dobber content. My name is Chad Simpson and you may remember me from a few guest appearances last year covering Frozen Tool Forensics. This year I will be taking on Geek of the Week full time. For my first piece, I want to focus on drafting fantasy [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! This week, I’m shifting the focus to maximizing games played. With the fantasy playoffs in full swing, every extra game can make a difference, especially in head-to-head matchups. That’s why I’ll be highlighting some low-owned players who play four times next week. These aren’t household names, [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to take a look at some of the “peripheral” categories in fantasy leagues: hits, blocks, penalty minutes, and plus-minus. Some players have emerged from the minors as great banger options, while some have just flipped a switch lately and [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be continuing the two-part series from last week where we will examine the fantasy playoff schedule and focusing on diamonds in the rough in the goalie position. Most of these goalies could be on the waiver wire in your league. I’ll [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to Part II of the three-part series, “Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded”. Last week, I highlighted players who could help you dominate G, A, and +/- categories if they are moved before the NHL’s March 7 trade deadline. And as promised, this week’s article will examine players who [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be revisiting my True Value Goalie Rankings to examine the goalie landscape. If you are unfamiliar with my True Value constructs (Quality Weeks, Really Bad Weeks, and Star Weeks), I utilize these to model a Goalie’s True Value in head-to-head (H2H) [...]
