Originally Posted by
everfeb
mister-mcgoo..."You 'share' players? How does that work?"
Wikipedia explains it better than I could. (There are two basic kinds of hockey pools: draft and non-draft. In a non-draft pool, everyone simply picks a set number of players. Thus, multiple participants can have the same player among their set roster.)
Our pool is a non-draft. So all of our 12 franchises share many of the same players on our 25 man rosters which consist of 19 forwards, 4 D and 2 rookies. In the past (and maybe even today) lots of non-draft pools (think Kenaston) didn't allow any roster changes-for any reason-for the season...set your roster before the season starts and you were stuck with it even if you picked some duds and your roster was decimated with injuries. Our pool has added some features to avoid this happening. Although there is no inter-franchise trading allowed in our pool, we are allowed 6 "switches" (trades) for the year. If I put a guy on my roster at the start of the year who hasn't been doing well I can "switch" him for a player who is doing better-even if the player I switch in is on every other franchise's roster. Switches have to be used sparingly. Our injury rule allows us to replace an injured player (after he misses one game) with another player from the same team (Johnson>Kucherov). The injured player can't be put back on our roster for at least 7 (or more) days. Also, we don't necessarily have to put our injured player back on our roster...we can keep his replacement as long as we want. IE...if Kucherov should happen to outpoint JT for a while (unlikely) I can keep Kuch as long as I want. So there is some strategy involved in our pool. It's fun. And keeps us old geezers following hockey.