Although a team still hasn’t hoisted the Stanley Cup, many poolies have turned their attention to the 2026-27 season. Normally that includes rampant speculation as to where UFAs will sign, and for how much, leading me to run my annual poll on UFA disappointments. Although there remain some fantasy-relevant players set to become UFAs, things [...]
I was thrilled at the response to last month’s poll where I asked you to vote for the five most overrated skaters in fantasy. This month, not surprisingly, it’s a 180, as we shift our focus to those who are most underrated in fantasy. It was much more difficult to choose 20 skaters who I [...]
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, [...]
In last month’s poll, the focus was on skaters whose starts to the season were much better than expected. Not surprisingly, this month’s poll looks at the other side of the coin, namely skaters who are underperforming. For each choice, I’ve listed three numbers: (1) their actual scoring pace through December 20th games, (2) their [...]
My annual June poll looks at players who’ve either strung together a streak of three of more seasons where their scoring pace has increased in each, or who’ve played a total of only three seasons but scored at a higher pace in each one thus far, and, in both cases, they averaged at least a [...]
With the 2024-25 season not yet even in the books, it may seem strange to run a poll that is focused on 2025-26; but I figured that many readers don’t participate in playoff pools, so the forward-looking content would be appreciated. Plus, how the upcoming UFA class will perform versus expectations is among the most [...]
It’s time for one of the more enjoyable polls I run, which asks you to determine who are the most overrated skaters in fantasy. Of course, “overrated” can mean different things to different people, so let me go over the criteria on which you should base your votes. First and foremost, this is overrated in [...]
