Y! Fantasy Hockey Rankings Analysis (Year over Year)

[jer_33]

As the title states, comparing rankings and positions from last years ranking and this years.

Some of these positional changes would have been reflected at the end of last season, so some of these guys would have already had dual eligibility.

Players that have added positions:

#21, Taylor Hall - C,LW
#28, Joe Pavelski - C,LW
#39, Nathan MacKinnon - C,RW
#52, Jeff Skinner - LW,RW
#68, Ryan Kesler - C,RW
#103, Gustav Nyquist - C,RW
#118, Brandon Saad - LW,RW
#144, David Perron - LW,RW
#156, Brad Richards - C,LW
#206, Jiri Hudler - LW,RW
#224, Vincent Lecavalier - C,LW
#242, Mikhail Grabovski - C,RW
#281, Marcus Johansson - C,LW
#290, Alex Tanguay - LW,RW
#326, Colin Wilson - C,LW
#435, Mika Zibanejad - C,RW
#441, Boone Jenner - C,LW
#466, Erik Cole - LW,RW
#472, Nick Spaling - C,LW
#507, Zac Rinaldo - C,LW
#599, Lance Bouma - C,LW
#608, Stephen Gionta - C,RW
#693, Beau Bennett - LW,RW
#700, Mike Hoffman - C,LW
#756, Zach Boychuk - LW,RW

Players that have lost Center eligibility:

#52, Jeff Skinner - LW,RW
#115, Tomas Hertl - LW
#116, Chris Kreider - LW
#151, Jaden Schwartz - LW
#211, Tomas Tatar - LW
#233, Tyler Toffoli - RW
#254, Tommy Wingels - RW
#314, Damien Brunner - RW
#391, Ryan Garbutt - RW
#419, Kyle Palmieri - RW
#440, Cory Conacher - LW
#685, Eric Tangradi - LW
#756, Zach Boychuk - LW,RW

...will keep adding as I continue to explore..

[Pengwin7]

#21, Taylor Hall - C,LW
#28, Joe Pavelski - C,LW (RW-removed.)
#39, Nathan MacKinnon - C,RW
#52, Jeff Skinner - LW,RW
#68, Ryan Kesler - C,RW
#103, Gustav Nyquist - C,RW
#118, Brandon Saad - LW,RW
#144, David Perron - LW,RW
#156, Brad Richards - C,LW
#206, Jiri Hudler - LW,RW
#224, Vincent Lecavalier - C,LW
#242, Mikhail Grabovski - C,RW
#281, Marcus Johansson - C,LW
#290, Alex Tanguay - LW,RW
#326, Colin Wilson - C,LW (C-added)
#435, Mika Zibanejad - C,RW
#441, Boone Jenner - C,LW (LW-added)
#466, Erik Cole - LW,RW (LW-added)
#472, Nick Spaling - C,LW (LW-added)
#507, Zac Rinaldo - C,LW (RW-removed.)
#599, Lance Bouma - C,LW (C-added)
#608, Stephen Gionta - C,RW (C-added)
#693, Beau Bennett - LW,RW
#700, Mike Hoffman - C,LW (LW-added)
#756, Zach Boychuk - LW,RW (RW-Added, C-Removed

I download end of year Yahoo Stats! direct from their fantasy platform, so it includes all end-of-year positions too.
I've bold positions added/removed from "end of year".

Nice post (REP).

[jer_33]

Trending in/out of the top 300 picks from 2013:

New additions to the top 300:

#121, Evgeny Kuznetsov - C
#140, Frederik Andersen - G
#197, Johnny Gaudreau - LW
#207, Aaron Ekblad - D
#258, Olli Maatta - D
#284, Sam Reinhart - C
#286, Curtis Lazar - C
#296, Griffin Reinhart - D

Top 10 "Risers" in the top 300 (ranked by movement):

#99, Torey Krug - D (+686)
#163, Jacob Trouba - D (+656)
#205, Sean Monahan - C (+646)
#219, Ryan Murray - D (+630)
#230, Eric Gelinas - D (+627)
#204, Hampus Lindholm - D (+622)
#221, Carl Soderberg - C (+539)
#155, Ondrej Palat - LW (+536)
#190, Jason Demers - D (+482)
#243, Reilly Smith - RW (+398)

To 10 players that have fallen hard out of the top 300 (ranked by movement):

#602, Grant Clitsome - D (-350)
#637, Magnus Paajarvi - LW (-362)
#641, Emerson Etem - LW,RW (-384)
#680, Drew Shore - C (-392)
#679, Sven Baertschi - LW (-414)
#761, Filip Forsberg - C,RW (-491)
#755, Mikhail Grigorenko - C (-546)
#777, Joni Pitkanen - D (-551)
#771, Ryan Whitney - D (-572)
#740, Stephen Weiss - C (-599)

[Pengwin7]

^Nice value.
I saw Baertschi & Grigs as I flipped through each page yesterday.
Worth monitoring where these two fall in camp.

[jer_33]

Deep value picks (guys you can probably scoop with your last couple of picks):

#423 Sam Gagner - C (2nd line centre, and powerplay)
#536 Nik Kulemin - RW (payday will see him on 2nd line)
#616 Brooks Laich - C (if healthy, has the looks of a Trotz favourite)
#620 Anders Lee - LW (top six winger in Brooklyn)
#701 Mark Stone - RW (may challenge for the open 2nd line winger spot in OTT)
#722, Adam Larsson - D (might finally put it all together, a decent dice roll with your final pick)

Value Goalies (can't sleep on goalies, as even guys on auto draft will have goalies early

#73 Brayden Holtby - G (not deep value, but Trotz system really helps goalies, ranked 19th best goalie by Yahoo)
#176 Craig Anderson - G (has the ability, but you don't want him as primary starter)


BISHOP BEWARE!

#20 Ben Bishop - G (still recovering from surgery, and ranked ahead of Price/Bobrovsky/Fleury - IF you own him, perhaps grabbing #374 Nabokov as a last pick handcuff could work out)

[wendelclark17]

great thread fellas ... cheers.

[habs7079]

Thanks Jerr_33! Very useful. Agree that Laich is a nice last round pick in deep leagues and definitely a player to watch on the waiver wire. If he can stay healthy, he'll be back in the 40-45 pt range.