Yahoo position eligibility 2016/17

[newfcollins]

Didn't Jeff Carter used to have three forward positions? Or was it someone else? I was pretty sure Carter used to be listed as C/LW/RW.

[Eskimo Brother]

Didn't Jeff Carter used to have three forward positions? Or was it someone else? I was pretty sure Carter used to be listed as C/LW/RW.

Pretty sure Carter has been C/RW for at least a season or two. Could have been a LW/C/RW a couple of seasons ago, I don't remember. Nyqvist, Forsberg, Pavelski and Sharp are the most relevant guys that had all three positions in the last two years off the top of my head.

[tomastop]

Didn't Jeff Carter used to have three forward positions? Or was it someone else? I was pretty sure Carter used to be listed as C/LW/RW.

Not Carter (not last season anyway). Toffoli was C/LW/RW... is C/RW now.

[Irriducibile11]

Didn't Jeff Carter used to have three forward positions? Or was it someone else? I was pretty sure Carter used to be listed as C/LW/RW.

99% sure it wasn't Carter

[Eskimo Brother]

Not Carter (not last season anyway). Toffoli was C/LW/RW... is C/RW now.

Good call. Forgot about Toffoli

[newfcollins]

Thanks all. I looked back through my mock drafts. Carter was all three in 2013, but not since.

[4T2]

I'm really happy to see the positional eligibility cut back this year. It's gotten out of hand the last couple of years for sure. Really shifts player values around though. Going to be a lot more thought put into my draft rankings this year. I feel bad for anyone who traded for a C with winger eligibility this offseason.

[Pengwin7]

I'm really happy to see the positional eligibility cut back this year. It's gotten out of hand the last couple of years for sure. Really shifts player values around though. Going to be a lot more thought put into my draft rankings this year. I feel bad for anyone who traded for a C with winger eligibility this offseason.

For sure, especially in FOW roto.
It's going to be interesting to see where Ryan O'Reilly goes in RHRS... he's a borderline 3rd/4th round pick with him being the last 900+ FOW wing-eligible player.

[4T2]

For sure, especially in FOW roto.
It's going to be interesting to see where Ryan O'Reilly goes in RHRS... he's a borderline 3rd/4th round pick with him being the last 900+ FOW wing-eligible player.

I was just thinking the same thing... him and Mack will definitely jump up a couple of rounds this year. I'm pretty interested to see how far guys like Giroux and Johnasen fall now too.

Another interesting wrinkle is, which of these players are likely to be given additional positional eligibility through the season and how does that affect their draft position? Yahoo has been pretty liberal adding eligibility mid-season the last few years.

[newfcollins]

For sure, especially in FOW roto.
It's going to be interesting to see where Ryan O'Reilly goes in RHRS... he's a borderline 3rd/4th round pick with him being the last 900+ FOW wing-eligible player.

Same with Mika Zibanejad. He's got a good chance to get 800-plus faceoff wins and you can slot him at right wing. The Rangers top faceoff guys last year for wins: Brassard had 676. Then Stepan had 515, Stoll had 481 (combined with Minny, I was too lazy to split them up) and Moore had 476.

Brassard is now in Ottawa, Stoll has been off the team for nine months and Moore is a free agent. There's a very good chance Zibs gets a lot of faceoffs this year.

[markpiel]

I'll probably take a shot or two over this, but:

It's FANTASY hockey, i.e., it's not real. Don't get me wrong: I think Yahoo! had gotten a little ridiculous throwing around additional position eligibility but one of the interesting aspects of fantasy hockey from a strategy perspective is it doesn't have to adhere to real life.

I don't like the fact that they've removed winger eligibility from a lot of "true" centres especially because it's going to increase the value of centres who win a lot of face-offs. Giroux's value was probably inflated with a C/RW eligibility, but he, and maybe ROR last year, were the exceptions. After him, the two players with far and away the best face-off win numbers year after year were Bergeron and Toews. If you lost out on them at a draft, then you could still chase guys like Kesler or Dubinsky at the draft, slot them in at RW and LW respectively, and still be competitive with an opponent who had the top face-off winners in the game.

That said, C/LW/RW eligibility is ridiculous and I'm happy to see that Yahoo! appears to have done away with it. I'd like to see more guys with LW/RW eligibility (like Simmonds! C'mon Yahoo!... ) I guess we'll see how it all shakes out.

[2014olympicgold]

I’m only upset that Giroux is no longer a RW because I own him and Stamkos. My Center slot is locked up now.

[mkl8687]

does FHG update position eligibility when we choose the yahoo setting? this would change up the rankings quite a bit.

[Pengwin7]

The FHG manager is pretty sharp.
He'll have it updated very soon, I'm certain.
I do believe it involves manual data alteration of each players position though.

[reeveta]

I did a position comparison in excel comparing last year's positions to this year positions (attached for those who want to see it).

Important to note is that at the close of last year Yahoo had 1632 skaters in their system while as of right now there are only 677 skaters. So lots more players to be added.

My timing is very bad because I just finished drafting a deep keeper team using last years positions and have now found that I don't have anywhere near the team I thought I did. I thought I had outsmarted the system but sticking players like Couture and Carter in winger slots. Turns out I just have a pile of centres.

Oh, and I think it was Joe Pavelski not Jeff Carter people were thinking about being C,LW,RW last year.