Your Favorite Fantasy Hockey Primers

[GMantooth]

Hey guys,

For curiosities sake, I decided to purchase several fantasy hockey primer magazines and the dobber package to see how they matched up. If there are any other good ones that I should check out, feel free to post.

So far I've read through dobber, sports forecaster, sportsnet pool guide, THN's pool guide.

Each had their own tidbits of knowledge that I found useful, the sportsnet and THN are a little more shallow than sports forecast and dobber. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the comprehensiveness of the sports forecaster issue, and think it will be my go-to companion to dobber from now on.

What's your favourites?

[butch]

sports forecaster for me

[ChrisWassel]

I have done work at quite a few of them. We also do a DFS Hockey podcast on Tuesday nights with Michael Clifford and Chris Pacheco. It's a little different than most. We do not sugar coat and is always a good learning experience for all, even us.

[havanablast21]

Forcaster for me as well as a support to what I get from the Dobber guide which once again is far and away my #1 resource.

[LordoftheRinks]

Next to Dobber, LeftWingLock produces the best guide and provides you with up to 3 customized player rankings (based on your leagues scoring categories).

[The Bottlenecker]

Have to say that the Sports Forecaster is the second best guide out there, after Dobber's multifaceted guide. Both Sporstnet & THN's are pretty lightweight, and I can't comment on LeftWingLock (Lord of Rinks mentioned it above) as I didn't know they had their own guide

[Samfolds]

Great thread idea sir! I have been using dobber since I've known it exists. This year, a guy I'm in a league with mentioned that THN was his bible and suggested I try it. I bought the pdf version and boy am I disapointed... I'm almost wondering if the guy was trolling me so he could win the league next year :P.

Very shallow, no rationale for the projections aside from a one liner... They include a bunch of superfluous stuff (loads of pages with last year's stats) and they don't update it throughout the camp (since it is hard-printed). I died a little inside when they mentioned stuff like: "you should follow training camp to know if he's going to play"... I mean, I'll be checking, but I thought it was your job to project accordingly!

I might try the others mentioned above, but Dobber's guide is by far the best so far for me. I also LOVE the spreadsheet that comes with the guide as I am a stat geek and love to play around with stats and I use it to ultimately customize my rankings on fantasy sites such as yahoo and fantrax.

[STONE.]

I have done work at quite a few of them. We also do a DFS Hockey podcast on Tuesday nights with Michael Clifford and Chris Pacheco. It's a little different than most. We do not sugar coat and is always a good learning experience for all, even us.

What's the name of this podcast?