by Johnny Fantasy
So, after learning how fantasy sports work in my last post, you’ve decided to jump in and play fantasy hockey. If this is your first time playing fantasy hockey, there are a few things to keep in mind that will help you succeed throughout the fantasy season, because unfortunately fantasy sports doesn’t necessarily just come down to choosing the players who have the best real-life value. Here are some tips to help you avoid some common pitfalls in playing fantasy hockey.
by Johnny Fantasy
Many fantasy leagues incorporate a salary cap concept – whether as part of a continuous cap scheme or simply as a mechanism to select keeper players. For those leagues that base player salary costs on real-life cap hits, figuring out what the actual cap hit for each player is very important. Continue reading “Calculating a Cap Hit”
by Johnny Fantasy
With week 8 now behind us, most teams have played about 1/3 of their season. At such an important point in the season (even if it is mathematically unheralded), now is a good time to look back on this year’s draft to see how things have played out. In every round, we can now see there have been disappointments, pleasant surprises and other noteworthy curiosities. Today, we’ll be going through each round (based on Yahoo’s average draft round results) to take a look at some of those results and second guessing ourselves for not having been able to predict the future. Continue reading “Week 8 in Review: The Big 1/3 Season Lookback”
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A quick post this week, discussing injuries to some of your top draft picks and how to deal with them. Continue reading “Week 7 in Review”
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This week: the NHL shamefully favours the needs of real-life players over fantasy owners and we look at a couple of players against certain expectations. Continue reading “Week 6 in Review”
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This week: more goalie spot starts, stale headlines and our new favourite hockey hobbit. Continue reading “Week 5 in Review”
by Johnny Fantasy
This week we deal with a shocking injury, we check in on some slumping stars and examine some short-term goalie options. Continue reading “Week 4 in Review”
by Johnny Fantasy
Setting up a fantasy hockey league is no easy task if you want to do things right. While it’s impossible for fantasy to exactly track reality, I always wanted to find a league setup that did the fairest job of approximating reality and that would provide the best experience of managing a hockey team of NHL players. To that end, there are the some basic principles I’ve settled on over the years. In part 4, we tried to find the best balance of categories for a stat-categories league. Here in part 5, we’ll try to figure out the best way to weight the stat categories for a Yahoo fantasy-points league. Continue reading “A Commissioner’s Manifesto (Part 5 – In Search of the Perfect Points System)”
by Johnny Fantasy
This week we got a peek into Edmonton’s developing reserve of talent, we learned to laugh with (at?) the Ducks and we’re starting to think that maybe certain unexpected accomplishments last season can be repeated. Continue reading “Week 3 in Review”
by Johnny Fantasy
Setting up a fantasy hockey league is no easy task if you want to do things right. While it’s impossible for fantasy to exactly track reality, I always wanted to find a league setup that did the fairest job of approximating reality and that would provide the best experience of managing a hockey team of NHL players. To that end, there are the some basic principles I’ve settled on over the years. Judging each stat category as we did in part 3 is an important first step, but how good a league will be will depend on what the chosen categories look like as a whole. Here in part 4, we’ll try to figure out the right balance for choosing categories in a stat-categories league. Continue reading “A Commissioner’s Manifesto (Part 4 – Finding the Right Balance of Stat Categories)”
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