Yahoo fantasy hockey to open...same as last year

[Two On One]

Mock drafts appear to be working now. Haven't joined one yet, but will soon.

[Eskimo Brother]

Is it just my internet, or does it leave anyone else on the loading player data page and never get to the actual mock draft?

[markpiel]

Oh, Yahoo!...once again you're screwing me over on position eligibility. Why can't you make Wayne Simmonds a LW/RW?

[Instant Karma]

Oh, Yahoo!...once again you're screwing me over on position eligibility. Why can't you make Wayne Simmonds a LW/RW?

Ah, good deal. If we're griping about position eligibility now then it must mean everything's working.

[Two On One]

I tried to get into the mock drafts... Just kept trying to "load player data". Not sure if it's working properly or not.

[Eskimo Brother]

Is it just my internet, or does it leave anyone else on the loading player data page and never get to the actual mock draft?

I tried to get into the mock drafts... Just kept trying to "load player data". Not sure if it's working properly or not.

Okay so it's not just me.

[RangerFan]

Okay so it's not just me.

Not you. Just tried to join 09:02 draft and got stuck.

[Instant Karma]

Not you. Just tried to join 09:02 draft and got stuck.

Me three. Feeling dumb now for trying to do this on the first day. No time to work out the kinks. oh, well.

[Pengwin7]

I've been trying to get in a mock... just "Downloading Player Data" and the ol' "spinning load wheel".
Bah.

Quick Notes on what I've seen.

1. Positional Eligibility. HOORAY! HOORAY! For all the bitching we do about this... FINALLY, FINALLY they cleaned up... and, they did a GOOD JOB! Not great, but very good. First off, Burns & Buff have been listed as RW/D for the last 3 seasons Nope, gone. Both are straight D. Guys like Malkin, Giroux, Stamkos, Carter, Kesler, Bryan Little have been C/RW each of the last few years. Fixed. All are straight C. A couple mistakes. Ryan O'Reilly is a C/LW - he was clearly a fulltime C last year. As was Jordan Staal, left to be C/LW. Zetterberg was left at C/LW and he's really a full-time C.

But they left Pavelski as C/RW, Filppula as C/RW, and MacKinnon as C/RW - fairly so.

With Backes going to BOS - they (somebody!) actually pegged him as straight RW... and I have no problem with that because if he plays top 6... he's probably a RW.

Sharp & Abdelkader rightfully kept their LW/RW... but Yahoo! did strip it from a lot of guys.

2. Rankings.
Yes - they are terrible... but Yahoo! has often opened with a straight statistical 2-year average of player stats. That means that a 50pt McDavid is worth 25pts averaged over past two years... or that Price is basically slotted as a 23 win goalies with great peripherals. They DO fix these about 3-4 weeks in, so no need to get panties in a bunch.

As an example:
Jakub Voracek
Yahoo #3 overall in 2014-2015
Yahoo #74 overall in 2015-2016
He's ranked at #43. (Pretty much an average of last two seasons)

3. Mocks aren't working.
They'll sort it out. I'm sure somebody will talk to the "football guys" and find out what the problems are.


For now, I give Yahoo! a thumbs up just for finally getting positional eligiblity straightened out... mostly.
Out of curiousity, I now want to go to NHL.com and see if they are same-sourcing by positions.
Yes - Backes IS listed as RW there.

[Eskimo Brother]

I've been trying to get in a mock... just "Downloading Player Data" and the ol' "spinning load wheel".
Bah.

Quick Notes on what I've seen.

1. Positional Eligibility. HOORAY! HOORAY! For all the bitching we do about this... FINALLY, FINALLY they cleaned up... and, they did a GOOD JOB! Not great, but very good. First off, Burns & Buff have been listed as RW/D for the last 3 seasons Nope, gone. Both are straight D. Guys like Malkin, Giroux, Stamkos, Carter, Kesler, Bryan Little have been C/RW each of the last few years. Fixed. All are straight C. A couple mistakes. Ryan O'Reilly is a C/LW - he was clearly a fulltime C last year. As was Jordan Staal, left to be C/LW. Zetterberg was left at C/LW and he's really a full-time C.

But they left Pavelski as C/RW, Filppula as C/RW, and MacKinnon as C/RW - fairly so.

With Backes going to BOS - they (somebody!) actually pegged him as straight RW... and I have no problem with that because if he plays top 6... he's probably a RW.

Sharp & Abdelkader rightfully kept their LW/RW... but Yahoo! did strip it from a lot of guys.


2. Rankings.
Yes - they are terrible... but Yahoo! has often opened with a straight statistical 2-year average of player stats. That means that a 50pt McDavid is worth 25pts averaged over past two years... or that Price is basically slotted as a 23 win goalies with great peripherals. They DO fix these about 3-4 weeks in, so no need to get panties in a bunch.

3. Mocks aren't working.
They'll sort it out. I'm sure somebody will talk to the "football guys" and find out what the problems are.


For now, I give Yahoo! a thumbs up just for finally getting positional eligiblity straightened out.
Out of curiousity, I now want to go to NHL.com and see if they are same-sourcing.

1. Completely agree. Makes for some more interesting decisions this coming year.
2. I'll get my panties in a bunch if I want to when McDavid is ranked outside of the top quarter of listed NHL players
3. It's not the fact that we can't do mocks that bugs me, it's that we're just so tantalizingly close to being able to!

[forumname]

I don't know why people complain about the rankings. I LOVE when they're all screwy like this! It gives an extra edge over less competent opponents, and if somebody wants to draft Bergeron and Neal with their first 2 picks, why would you want to stop them?!

And yes, they will "fix" them at some point, though it's interesting to hear how they come up with these initial rankings. Makes sense to some degree, but I wonder if they wouldn't be better served just ranking them based solely on the previous years stats. That way people would at least know where it's coming from instead of being perplexed about McDavid being 297 (obviously this is just gross)

[Invictus]

But they left Pavelski as C/RW, Filppula as C/RW, and MacKinnon as C/RW - fairly so.

Pavelski was C LW RW as with Nyquist who is now LW RW

I love the clean up!

[newfcollins]

I don't know how you guys are getting mock drafts. I just get told "Mock drafts for Fantasy Hockey ' 16 are closed for the season
See you next year!"

[Eskimo Brother]

I don't know how you guys are getting mock drafts. I just get told "Mock drafts for Fantasy Hockey ' 16 are closed for the season
See you next year!"

We weren't actually getting into any. They realized they screwed up, and they've closed it now. I see the same message now.

[4T2]

I like the new feature under the Draft tab - "Last Season". It sorts by team and shows where the players were drafted, how they performed and what their ranking is for the coming season.