you cant win em all.
you seem to like the points only/ playoffs count type hey? ive never tried a playoff counts pool, ill have to give it a shot this year.
a 5 year rebuild better put you in the top for a few years straight.lol.
Terrible. My dry spell has reached three years now of not making as much on fantasy hockey as I've spent, after a 15-year positive streak. When it rains it pours.
But I thought I would quickly post here what I have done, for those interested.
Keeper 1
Basic keeper. 20 players. Points only. Top 12 count. Playoffs count.
I won four years ago after a two-year rebuild. At the time, I wanted to rebuild for one more year, but found myself in first place so I sacrificed a lot to hold onto it. Take the win when you can get it, because you don't know what the future holds. Since then, I have floundered with a weaker team and injuries. I had thought that I could hang around up top for a couple of years and perhaps win again, but...not even close. I was fighting another rebuild because it was so damn soon after my last one. Big mistake. I should have taken the one and done victory and rebuild immediately.
Keeper 2
A little more advanced. 27 players, Top 2 dmen, Top 1 goalie, Top 12 rest of the skaters count. Playoffs count. Points only. Top 8 teams make the playoff competition. Gradually expanding the rosters to 12-4-2 with 12 on the farm.
I sold the farm to get Crosby as a sophomore and have been rebuilding ever since. Filling up such a big roster when you are empty of picks and players is a lengthy five-year process, but this year I was finally done the rebuild. So there I am in 2nd place in January. Crosby is out for a couple of games with a "mild" concussion. I put Lidstrom on the block - I don't need his points, because I probably won't get 1st place, so may as well slip a little in the standings and improve my team. Just make the Top 8. So I traded him for Tarasenko and Gagne. A great deal.
After that, it was...just wow. My fellow GM's laugh about it - they had never seen anything like it. In months where a good team will get 100 points and a bad team would get 40 points...my team got like 20 in March. Crosby remained out. Bourque couldn't find the net with a map and a flashlight. Carter was off and on. Price was out of his sizzling hot streak. With the trade deadline over I could only watch...5th...6th...7th...8th...9th in the last week, and out of the playoffs.
As a GM, nothing had ever hurt more.
It turns out my playoffs would have sucked anyway, but it still hurts that I didn't make the show.
Keeper 3
This is with the boys in the Forecaster. One last year of a rebuild. Keep 12. Dress 4C 8W, 6D, 2G.
My keepers are:
Staal, Kopitar, Johansen
Kovalchuk, Giroux, Eriksson
Letang, Carlson, Enstrom, Shattenkirk
Price, Montoya
Notable drops, unless I can make a trade or two: OEL, Poulin, Frolik, Tatar, Boychuk, Morin
Finished around 7th out of 14. Goaltending cost me a Top 3 (I had Varlamov and I drafted Leighton with my first round pick). I won't make that mistake this time.
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15-Team Keeper, points only, best 12 fwd, 4 dman, 2 G count. Playoffs count.
F - T. Thompson, Thomas, Nylander, Tarasenko, Arvidsson, Guentzel, Fiala, Quinn, Mittelstadt, Hagel, Zacha, Roslovic, Berggren, Brink, Ostlund
G - Kahkonen, Vejmelka, L. Thompson, Levi, Comrie
D - Hronek, Morrissey, Lundkvist, Girard, Brannstrom, Rathbone, Hanifin, Severson, Durzi
you cant win em all.
you seem to like the points only/ playoffs count type hey? ive never tried a playoff counts pool, ill have to give it a shot this year.
a 5 year rebuild better put you in the top for a few years straight.lol.
10 team Full Keeper Roto League
4C-4LW-4RW-6D-2G-5bench-unlimited farm.
C= eichel,horvat,malkin,kuznetsov
LW= forsberg,kreider,lee,b.tkchuch,hertle,granlund
RW= reinhart,radulov,hoffman,laine,hayes
D= doughty,ghostebehere,karlsson,jones,klefbom,dahlin ,skjei
G= price,murray,grubauer,georgiev,ullmark,samsonov
under250gp=nichushkin,tuch,mathesson,marino,pujuja rvi,hosang,terry,andersson,j.hughes,patrik,crouse, zadina,podkolzin,k.miller,nedeljkovic,kravtsov,hay ton
--G,A,P,PPP,SHP,GWG,PIMS,+/-,SOG,hits,FOW,blks-Wins,GAA,SV%,saves,SO