2015/16 DobberHockey Experts League!

[horrorfan]

How's this league going? Can you provide a standings update?

[ericdaoust]

Rank	Team	Points	Pts Change	Pts Back	Waiver	Moves
1	HolyPuck	89.5	0.5	-	7	4
2	The Comish	87	-0.5	2.5	11	4
3	Top 10 finish	81.5	2.5	8	4	4
4	Last Resort	80.5	2.5	9	3	5
5	Laying the Law	67.5	-0.5	22	6	2
6	rizzeedizzee's Team	63	3.5	26.5	10	2
7	LeBlanc's Legion	62	-3.5	27.5	9	2
8	The Goods	57	1	32.5	8	4
9	Sat. Night Special	50.5	-0.5	39	2	-
10	Edler's Mind Tricks	50	-1	39.5	12	7
11	Daoust Dynasty	49.5	-3.5	40	13	9
12	5 For Fighting	45.5	0	44	1	-
13	Contra Dictions	35.5	-0.5	54	5	5

[The Comish]

Thanks Eric! I had saved the standings after 31 Oct and had started working on a write-up, but life got very busy and I still haven't finished.

I was going to comment on some of the better free agent acquisitions:

Daoust Dynasty snapped up Vincent Trocheck Fla on 12 Oct. Edler's Mind Tricks pick up of Travis Zajac NJ is looking good after only 10 days. Last Resort's timely claim on Mike Condon Mtl, a.k.a. Carey Price 2.0 has him smiling. All those were good, but the real star of the free agent waiver wire so far has been The Goods, who swiped Colton Parayko Stl and (Kings of) Leon Draisaitl Edm. Those are some pretty good reheats.

On a personal note, I'm not sure that anyone should be giving up on one category this early, but if the points in each of my categories were figure skating scores, my plus/minus would be from the Russian judge. My team is dead last in plus/minus at minus-36. The next worst team is at minus-25 and the top team is at a lofty plus-49. I even took plus/minus into consideration at the draft, snagging André Palat (+31 last year), Mister Garrison (+27), Stephen Stepan (+26), Taylor Toffoli (+25), Hamper Lindholm (+25), Kelvin Klein (+24) and Marek Stone (+21). Now, I fully realized that those guys may not repeat those huge numbers, but I thought my team wouldn't have to worry about the plus/minus category at all, even if I was middle of the pack. Stunning.

How Top 10 finish is third overall with Freddy Andersen, Robin Lehner, Cam Talbot and now Reto Berra as his goaltending is amazing.

[ericdaoust]

I should have waited to post. I am having a good day!

[Pengwin7]

Thanks for the update!
Oct/Nov standings are usually too early, but I enjoy seeing them!
Lots of time for your teams to rise - you guys did some good drafting.

[horrorfan]

Although it's still early, looking at the top teams so far and I'm liking temek (Last Resort) as a title contender.

[newfcollins]

How Top 10 finish is third overall with Freddy Andersen, Robin Lehner, Cam Talbot and now Reto Berra as his goaltending is amazing.

Ugh. I hate looking at my goalies. I wasn't too worried about my goalies before the season since we only include wins, GAA and saves. I'm middle of the pack in the later two categories, but they just can't get wins.

I have been lucky. Gallagher is ranked eighth in our pool. Hall is third. Klingberg is 11th. Pacioretty is 12th. So I have a few overachievers.

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How Top 10 finish is third overall with Freddy Andersen, Robin Lehner, Cam Talbot and now Reto Berra as his goaltending is amazing.

Ugh. I hate looking at my goalies. I wasn't too worried about my goalies before the season since we only include wins, GAA and saves. I'm middle of the pack in the later two categories, but they just can't get wins.

I have been lucky. Gallagher is ranked eighth in our pool. Hall is third. Klingberg is 11th. Pacioretty is 12th. So I have a few overachievers.

[ericdaoust]

Rank	Team	Points	Pts Change	Pts Back	Waiver	Moves
1	Last Resort	92.5	6.5	-	3	5
2	HolyPuck	89.5	-3	3	9	6
3	Top 10 finish	77	1.5	15.5	11	5
4	The Comish	75	0.5	17.5	10	9
5	Daoust Dynasty	73.5	3	19	12	13
6	LeBlanc's Legion	69.5	-4	23	6	2
6	Laying the Law	69.5	1	23	5	2
8	The Goods	64	-2	28.5	13	7
9	rizzeedizzee's Team	57	-1.5	35.5	7	2
10	Edler's Mind Tricks	49	6	43.5	8	7
11	5 For Fighting	39	-1	53.5	1	-
12	Sat. Night Special	32.5	-6	60	2	-
13	Contra Dictions	31	-1	61.5	4	5

[horrorfan]

Thanks for the update. Temek doing what I expected.

[Pengwin7]

Kind of sucks that two GMs (Sat.Night.Special & 5 For Fighting) have gone AWOL.
I thought SNS had a good drafted team, but he hasn't been on since Nov.3rd and has left Pat Kane on his damn bench that whole time. (That's a disgrace, IMO)
He's got a top five SOG/gp team, high + team, all with Pat Kane on his bench since Nov.3rd.
I guarantee any partially-active GM would have that team top five (prob top three) with a few spot-goalie-acqs.

5F5 hasn't been on since Oct.

Temek's lead is actually pretty massive upon inspection.
He's tracking about 40-50 skater games back of the teams in 2nd/3rd/4th.
That's a lot of eventual offensive cat-jumping.
[Gotta give him credit for targeting Neal, Palmieri, and Panarin in several of his leagues. Spezza & Suter were also great value... and obv, Condon/Greiss are beauty goalie-risers to own.)

I'd say Comish & Daoust have the best (long-shot) chances to reel him in.
Both will need to fix their dismal +/-... not a criticism, I'm having troubles with this in my leagues too (giroux, voracek, letang killing me)...
Comish really isn't getting adequate per-game production from his skaters though.
And Daoust has a really terrible goalie-win-rate (I'm a RAMO holder as well... good lord it's been a frustrating season for CGY goalie holders).

Going forward, if Vegas put a spread on Temek vs. Field, I'm putting my bank account on Temek.

Pengs' forward final top three:
1. Temek
2. Daoust
3. Comish

[ericdaoust]

I was in 11th three weeks ago so pretty happy with the turnaround. Definitely trending up!

Getting Boedker, Stempniak, Trocheck, Colin Miller and Ghost off the wire has helped tremendously.

[horrorfan]

Kind of sucks that two GMs (Sat.Night.Special & 5 For Fighting) have gone AWOL.
I thought SNS had a good drafted team, but he hasn't been on since Nov.3rd and has left Pat Kane on his damn bench that whole time. (That's a disgrace, IMO)
He's got a top five SOG/gp team, high + team, all with Pat Kane on his bench since Nov.3rd.
I guarantee any partially-active GM would have that team top five (prob top three) with a few spot-goalie-acqs.

5F5 hasn't been on since Oct.

Temek's lead is actually pretty massive upon inspection.
He's tracking about 40-50 skater games back of the teams in 2nd/3rd/4th.
That's a lot of eventual offensive cat-jumping.
[Gotta give him credit for targeting Neal, Palmieri, and Panarin in several of his leagues. Spezza & Suter were also great value... and obv, Condon/Greiss are beauty goalie-risers to own.)

I'd say Comish & Daoust have the best (long-shot) chances to reel him in.
Both will need to fix their dismal +/-... not a criticism, I'm having troubles with this in my leagues too (giroux, voracek, letang killing me)...
Comish really isn't getting adequate per-game production from his skaters though.
And Daoust has a really terrible goalie-win-rate (I'm a RAMO holder as well... good lord it's been a frustrating season for CGY goalie holders).

Going forward, if Vegas put a spread on Temek vs. Field, I'm putting my bank account on Temek.

Pengs' forward final top three:
1. Temek
2. Daoust
3. Comish

Wow, inactive managers already?! That's disappointing.

I agree with your prediction. It's Temek's to lose, not because there aren't other quality managers, but I've seen first hand how good he is at managing his team, and only injuries could derail things.

However, it is a long season so would be interesting to see who can challenge him and make it an exciting race in the second half.

[gooding74]

Kind of sucks that two GMs (Sat.Night.Special & 5 For Fighting) have gone AWOL.
I thought SNS had a good drafted team, but he hasn't been on since Nov.3rd and has left Pat Kane on his damn bench that whole time. (That's a disgrace, IMO)
He's got a top five SOG/gp team, high + team, all with Pat Kane on his bench since Nov.3rd.
I guarantee any partially-active GM would have that team top five (prob top three) with a few spot-goalie-acqs.

5F5 hasn't been on since Oct.

Temek's lead is actually pretty massive upon inspection.
He's tracking about 40-50 skater games back of the teams in 2nd/3rd/4th.
That's a lot of eventual offensive cat-jumping.
[Gotta give him credit for targeting Neal, Palmieri, and Panarin in several of his leagues. Spezza & Suter were also great value... and obv, Condon/Greiss are beauty goalie-risers to own.)

I'd say Comish & Daoust have the best (long-shot) chances to reel him in.
Both will need to fix their dismal +/-... not a criticism, I'm having troubles with this in my leagues too (giroux, voracek, letang killing me)...
Comish really isn't getting adequate per-game production from his skaters though.
And Daoust has a really terrible goalie-win-rate (I'm a RAMO holder as well... good lord it's been a frustrating season for CGY goalie holders).

Going forward, if Vegas put a spread on Temek vs. Field, I'm putting my bank account on Temek.

Pengs' forward final top three:
1. Temek
2. Daoust
3. Comish

Actually Zach (5 for Fighting) has a good reason for not checking his team. He recently revealed that his 20-month-old daughter passed away in November. As the father of two young kids myself, I don't know what I would do if I were put into that position. But I do know that some things are more important than fantasy hockey. We might question why people never check their teams, but we don't always know the reasons behind it.

[metaldude26]

I have come to the conclusion that I cannot do waivers. I have missed the past five deadlines, maybe more. Crushing me.

What really hurts, however, and I've come to accept it, is that I totally whiffed on repeating last year's winning strategy. My goalies are simply too weak for this league.

Bishop has been the stud I projected but I was too focused on getting "value" that I punted on all of my other picks. My only really good move so far was snagging Nilsson off the waiver wire, which I somehow got my shit together to pull off.

Johansen and Parise in rnds 3+4 were crippling picks, not nearly good enough to replace what I might have gotten out of a stud goalie like Andersen or Schneider or Luongo.

File this one away under lessons learned.

[ericdaoust]

I also whiffed on waiting for goalies. Bobrovsky/Mason/Ramo were each the standout best goalie left with a huge drop-off to the next guy at the time they were picked. I went from thinking I was clever to being in 11th place.