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[Waffles2003]

Hey guys, you have helped me in the past and I need your help again.

League scoring format:


Skaters Points

Goal 5

Assist 3

Penalty Minute 0.25

Shot On Goal 0.20

Plus/Minus +1/-1

Goaltenders Points

Win 5

Shutout 5

Save 0.20

Goal Allowed -1


Team Roster

Your team roster must consist of the following 20 players:

* 4 Goalies
* 4 Centers
* 6 Wingers
* 6 Defensemen

Here is a link to the players salaries, I have a cap of $60M, can you find out who is listed with a low salary that is set to have a great year.

http://freehockey.fanball.com/rules/index.php?page=roster

I appreciate your help, thank you

Waffles2003

[FCP Bob]

I'm going to take a teach a man to fish approach.

How I would approach this pool would be to create a spreadsheet with all the listed players and their 2008/09 stats and figure out how many points in total and per game each averaged and compare that to salaries to see who is undervalued and overvalued based on last year.

I would take a look at the undervalued players and see which of them I expect to do even better this year and those of course would be the ones that I would focus on. I also would look at things like injury history and stay away from players like Gaborik who are made of porcelain and of course I would look at each player who I'm interested in and try and project their current situation for this year.

[Waffles2003]

I am not sure if you can see this but here is last years stats and salaries for each player:

http://freehockey.fanball.com/research/stats.php

What I am looking for also is players that changed teams and will benefit a lot from their moves.
I am also looking for up and comers (Stamkos? Ryan?)

[Waffles2003]

+1

i need more input, thanks

[Zach6668]

Use statistics (the mathematical field), most notably expected value.

Also what Bob said.

We aren't going to do the work for you.

[serge]

thats a really interesting and unique scoring system..You dont see it a lot..

I think high scoring dman, are very valuable. There arent a lot of them.

only a handful of D score more than 10-15 goals a year

Check out Bogosian's stats, take his numbers over a full season he would of scored 16 goals last year.

[coesillian]

Make a team and post it here for critique and suggestions to improve it.

Backstrom at 4.3M looks good.

steals: Tavares. Giroux, Peverley, Voracek, Neidermeiyer, Cambell, Kariya, Ebbett.

Guys with SOG and PIM: Hartrnell, Morrow, Backes, Brown...

Goalies: I've banked on Emery doing good this season in most of my pools, he's probably cheap.

[Zach6668]

Careful on Ebbett, he's on the bubble to even make the Ducks this year.

[serge]

Make a team and post it here for critique and suggestions to improve it.

Backstrom at 4.3M looks good.

steals: Tavares. Giroux, Peverley, Voracek, Neidermeiyer, Cambell, Kariya, Ebbett.

Guys with SOG and PIM: Hartrnell, Morrow, Backes, Brown...

Goalies: I've banked on Emery doing good this season in most of my pools, he's probably cheap.

i really dont get this...Do you guys forget he was booted out of the NHL and ended up in Russia.

[digitalmonkey]

i really dont get this...Do you guys forget he was booted out of the NHL and ended up in Russia.

Yeah, he had some discipline problems but if he can keep that together then he can be a very good goalie. Do you forget he brought the Senators deep?

[Zach6668]

i really dont get this...Do you guys forget he was booted out of the NHL and ended up in Russia.

And exactly why I think everyone overrates Philly still.

edit - although not by much, the Flyers are a very good hockey team, it's just that the most important position is a HUGE question mark at this point in the season. It's a gamble, could pay off, or they could go down in flames like they have the last 15 years trying to make it without a sure fire #1 goalie...

[coesillian]

It is somewhat risky but he's a good goalie playing behind what was a good team last year that added Pronger. It's a good gamble to take, the upside is huge and the downside is unlikely IMO. He'll be interesting to follow.

[Zach6668]

Yeah, I don't think he's going to be an epic failure or anything, I just don't think he's the guy that takes them to the Cup, or puts them over the hump, wins them the big games, etc.

[mrdannyg]

Alright, 12-team league. 6F, 4D, 2G. Initial draft, we're keeping 6 players per year. 5 bench spots. Head-to-head, categories are G, A, P, PPP, GWG and W, SV%, GAA, SHO.

A 'fun' league, with several people missing the draft and new to the league. I don't love how the early part went, as I had 9th pick. As an example, Parise and Semin were both auto-drafted in the late teens! I thought Parise was already drafted, and am now trying to trade

Forwards:
Iginla, Cammalleri, Gagne, Setoguchi, Pominville, Antropov

Defence:
Green, Wideman, Blake, Zidlicky

Bench:
Jason Blake, Dustin Brown, Kubina, Kuba and Wisniewski

Goalies:
Backstrom, Steve Mason

Overall I'm happy, one of the better teams. Backstrom and Mason were the 9th and 12th goalies picked, so they were eagerly snapped up by me. Not sure how much I like Iginla and Green over Parise and Semin, and that is haunting me, but hopefully I can make a deal.

Thoughts?

[Fenxis]

Yeah, he had some discipline problems but if he can keep that together then he can be a very good goalie. Do you forget he brought the Senators deep?

It seemed to be me like he 'just didn't get it' and that he needed a 'wakeup call'. Obv going to the KHL for a year would hopefully do it.

Always prefered Emery over Gerber but not sure he could have turned it around.

[Waffles2003]

Thanks for all the replies and thanks to Serge for hijacking my thread

Good luck all this season