Originally Posted by
fantasyhockeygeek
For me, the guys complaining are way out of line. I'm assuming it's just points for skaters? If that's so, then they misread player value, simple as that. In this scoring system, goalies are damn valuable. Kari Lehtonen, who had an epically bad year by most standards in 2014/15, still put up 98.6 points in this setup. Price, as league MVP, put up 127.2. Simply put, a starter that sees games is worth more than virtually every skater. I'd guess more than 50% of the top-20 producers in this league last year were goalies. So the teams that are hoarding goalies are smart. Those that are short of goalies are mis-reading the setup. "Price is too high"? BS. In this setup (again, assuming skaters are just scoring points), a mediocre goalie is worth more than a star skater. So if those GMs aren't willing to deal a Jamie Benn for Lundqvist or Luongo or Bishop or Fleury or Varlamov or Rask, it's not that the price is too high, it's that those GMs are making mistakes.
There are 360 players owned, and 180 kept from year to year. I'd be floored if 30-40 goalies weren't kept.
If they weren't valuing goalies and making sure they had them, there's nobody to blame but themselves. Making any change here severely penalizes the teams that looked at the league scoring setup, crafted a strategy accordingly, and went about building their rosters.
How do you fix it from here? Either blow up the league and create a new scoring system where goalies aren't the most valuable players, or get GMs that are willing to manage to a league's scoring system, not their own perception of where value "should" be. Limiting the number of goalies kept or per roster strikes me as a band-aid, and one that penalizes the smart GMs.