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I would take Crosby. Don't worry about salary as much with your early picks. Just try and get the best possible players early and start to focus on salary a few rounds in.
Who do I take 1st overall?
Hey, I am in a new Keeper league, I have the 1st overall pick and I can't decide who to take.
It is a keeper with salary cap so take that into consideration.
league breakdown is below:
14 team league H2H stats are below
G A P +/- PPP SHP GWG HIT W GAA SV% SHO
Crosby? Ovi? McDavid? Tavares?
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
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I would take Crosby. Don't worry about salary as much with your early picks. Just try and get the best possible players early and start to focus on salary a few rounds in.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
Originally Posted by Axeman33
Yeah i was thinking of taking Crosby and maybe trading him for a haul after the draft- Ovi came into mind just becaus eof the Hit stat and then of course McDavid is ridiculous
thanks for your input
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
I'm in two new pools that started this year. In one, McDavid wasn't included as we had a separate draft for prospects. The top 10 there was Tavares, Ovi, Benn, Price, Malkin, Holtby, Seguin, Crosby, Stamkos, and Karlsson.
In another league, the top 10 was McDavid, Crosby, Tavares, Seguin, Ovi, Giroux, Stamkos, Price, Benn and Tarasenko.
I’d choose Crosby personally, but it might be fun drafting McDavid and seeing what he can do for the next 10 years. It would be like choosing Crosby in brand new keeper pools in 2005 instead of established stars like Sakic, Naslund, Kovalchuk, Jagr and Sundin.
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12-team Keeper pool, straight points for forwards & dmen. Goalies get: 2 points per win, 3 per shutout, 1 point per assist & 1 point per shootout loss.
League champ in 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2022.
Top 8 forwards, 5 dmen and 2 goalies count.
We keep 15 players (any position) plus two rookies.
Forwards: Panarin, Ovechkin, Kopitar, Stamkos, Tuch, Rust, Marchessault, Pavelski, Miller, Bertuzzi, Stone, Kakko, Brown, Stankoven, Kovalenko
Defence: Hedman, Fox, Matheson, Thrun, Jiricek
Goalies: Kochetkov, Talbot, Vasilevskiy, Campbell, Schmid
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
Welcome to the forums!
I would probably take Crosby here, but McDavid would be a really fun pick too (and a bit cheaper too)!
And don't worry about salaries in the earlier rounds, take the best players available.
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
Two options - Depends on what your gut says how the others in the league will draft. As it will 26 picks between your 1st and 2nd pick.
Option 1 - Draft Crosby and a bunch of other veterans in a win-now mode. (This is if you think lots of people will build young teams trying to win in future)
Option 2 - Draft McDavid and a bunch of other young future starts. (This is if you think lots of GMs will want to win in year 1 or 2)
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
Crosby, Tavares, McDavid in that order.
You have the 1st; you take Sid
Keeper league 14 teams (H2H, 20 active players keep 16 NHLers, 16 minors)
Scoring Cats: G-A-PTS-PPG-PPA-(+/-)-HITS-BLK-SHP-SOG-FOW-GWG / W-L-SVS-SV%-GAA-SO
C- Crosby, Barzal, Bennett, Schmaltz, Novak
W- Forsberg, Batherson, Nichuskin, Tuch, Konecny, Maccelli, Sharangovich, Bertuzzi, Kaliyev, Neighbours, Reichel
D- Carlson, Rielly, Klingberg
G- Hellebuyck, Demko, Merzlikins, Vejmelka
Minors:
F: Fantilli, Cooley, Bourgault, Perreault, Cowan, Ohgren, N. Foote, Goyette, Iskhakov, Denisenko, Tracey
D: Simashev, Willander, Lambos
G: Schmidt, Rodrigue, DiPietro, Gaudreau, McKay
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
Nobody is going with Ovie here? I think he's the one i go with. The league has hits and GWG which means that Ovie stands out a little extra. SOG would be the clincher but this isn't a cat, however, he's the clear winner in at least 3 categories and is on par with many others for another 3.
Is Kessel the reason that Crosby is going to outpoint Ovie? It's possible but Kessel means that Crosby gets assists instead of goals.
League 1: 12 teams (drafted 10th) - Standard public Yahoo league - G,A,+/-,PIM,PPP,SOG - W,GAA,SV%,SHO
C:
LW:
RW:
D:
G:
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
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If you're planning to be in this league for 2-3+ years, take McDavid. If not, take Crosby.
8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
I'd take McDavid. You don't even have to focus on going young after him, because he'll produce like a top tier guy in year two or three, anyway, and he's still likely to give you a very solid year one, as well.
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
That's a good point. I tend to agree with your train of thought. Who doesn't count SOG anyways? Lol...
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
How many goalies do you start? Is it a snake draft? Assuming you start two goalies and assuming it's a snake draft, I go with Price. Because every single decent goalie will be gone by the time you pick again. And you won't have much of a chance if you can't compete in 4/12 categories.
Re: Who do I take 1st overall?
In a salary cap league that is also a full keeper the pick is McDavid and i donīt care if i win season 1 if i got the dynasty going afterwards.
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