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10 Team keeper league
(9F, 4D, 2G, 4 bench, 2 IR)
H2H
Goals-1, Assists-1, PPP-0.5, SHG=1, Hits-0.05, BS-0.05, Shots-0.05, Wins-2, Shutouts-2, Saves 0.01, Defenseman Pts-0.5
Keep 6 (potentially 7 with a vote pending)
2012/2013: 4th in reg season, 2nd in playoffs
2013/2014: 1st (t) reg season, 4th in playoffs
2014/2015: 1st reg season, 4th in playoffs
2015/2016 7th reg season (third highest PF)
Crosby, Malkin, Laine, Getzlaf, Radulov, Arvidsson, Rantanen, Bailey, W. Karlsson, Ducehene,Haula,
Klingberg, Suter, Trouba, Ekblad, Provorov
Holtby, Talbot, Varlamov
Analytics have shown they've been riding puck luck pretty hard through the first half of the season.
Let's talk F depth:
JOHNNY GAUDREAU MIKAEL BACKLUND JIRI HUDLER
LANCE BOUMA SEAN MONAHAN DAVID JONES
MASON RAYMOND DREW SHORE JOE COLBORNE
BRANDON BOLLIG MATT STAJAN PAUL BYRON
- pulled from LWL
Very inexperienced 1st line. You really want to match up Gaudreau/Backlund vs the CALI 1st line beasts?
This second line is actually worse than Vancouver's, who has a pitiful 2nd line themselves (I would know as a VAN resident)
Bonino is further in development than Monahan is, Higgins>Jones, and who the fk is Bouma?
Shore as the 3rd line C? Joke.
Although I will acquit that their G and top 4D corps is greatly improved since last year (Brodie has been REALLY impressive, and Russell is super underrated), they're pretty reliant on Gio/Hudler/Gaudreau coming through. The D can't make up for the F for the whole season when teams are going to grind these guys down. It concerns me when a team's leading point-getter is a Dman in addition to 3rd place being a rookie.
Next, it's the second half of the season that really shows a team's tenacity and belief in their system.
1. By this time, teams that have been pretty lucky start regressing to the mean (ex. Toronto) and teams are able to adept better to one another.
Although one might suggest that all teams will know more about each other and as such, this will not impact play, the Flames team this year is pretty significantly different from last year. This means that likely other teams would not have had a very big sample size to pull relevant data from in determining the best way to match up against the Flames early on.
2. Flames got most of their points in the very beginning of the season, when they can advantage of teams that are:
- "trying out" players (the 9 max GP with rookies and the such)
- teams with key injuries
- teams that have not been able to build chemistry among their players yet due to lack of time
By now, all these things should be addressed and no longer a problem for other teams.
Let's look at their schedule:
OCT: 12GP 6W 2OTL = 14pts out of a possible 24 (58% conversion rate)
NOV: 13GP 9W = 18 pts out of a possible 26 (69%)
DEC: 14GP 6W 1OTL = 13 pts out of a possible 28 (46%)
JAN: 6GP 3W (50%)
I suspect that their conversion rate will be ~50% moving forward, which I agree isn't terrible. But relative to the teams in their conference (NSH, STL CHI, WPG, COL, DAL), Calgary is very preferable to face, and thus "fairly weak."
Overall, Flames are trending upward since last year for sure, and their retool to the top shouldn't take too long (I think they'll be truly good in 2 years) but the lack of veteran experience and proven 2way C in their top 6 will really hurt them. The drop from the standings won't be too severe, but it will be there. Won't make playoffs for sure.
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15 Team Yahoo Rotisserie (1YR)
Max Games Played
3C, 3LW, 3RW, 4D, 2G, 4BN
G, A, +/-, PIM, PPG, SHG, SOG, FW, HIT, BLK
W, GAA, SV%, SHO
C: Giroux, Stastny, Fisher
LW: Benn, Hall, Lucic, Hartnell
RW: Stamkos, Hossa, Stafford
D: Karlsson, Byfuglien, Brodie, Borowiecki, Pouliot
G: Elliott, Allen, Dubnyk, Stalock
IR: P. Kane
Notable Trades:
Khudobin -> Hartnell (Oct 12)
Ehrhoff -> Lupul (Nov 12)
Greiss -> Hossa (Nov 21)
Forsberg, Kucherov, Stalock -> Stamkos (Dec 20)
Varlamov -> Lucic (Jan 20)
E. Staal -> Byfuglien (Jan 20)
Halak, Perreault -> Benn (Feb 10)