Re: Inaugural Draft- Goalie Strategy? REP
Lol - your thread jumped at me like "hey I'm in the exact same situation". And then I realized it was you Hope you don't mind if I read along. I actually happened to land on one of your other threads too because the topic jumped at me - but I made sure to not snipe you in the draft because of it.
To answer your question: I don't think you can tell in advance which pick you should use for your first G. You'd rather have to decide first if you're willing to take some risk and jump on the train once (whenever) the goalie run has started or if you want to be on the safe side and pick a top G early and maybe start the goalie run in the process.
Given you're not owning a young top G from our prospect draft (but Makar you sonofa..), I would do the second thing and certainly not wait longer than till your 28th pick, simply because you're not picking for quite a while after that and I can't imagine that really good Gs are to be had at the end of round 3 still. You might risk it, but I wouldn't. In your shoes at your slot I'd grab a top fwd at 21 and a G at 28. (You already have a top D you sonofa...
24 team H2H dynasty, fantasy points, no cap
Skaters: G 4.5 (5 for Ds), A 3, PPG 1.5 (2 for Ds), PPA 1 (1.5 for Ds), SHP 2, Ft 2, HIT 0.6, BLK 0.6, SOG 0.3 (0.4 for Ds), FW 0.1, Tk 0.5 // Gv -0.3
Goalies: W 3.5, SHO 5, SV 0.5, A 3 // GA -3, L -1.5
4C, 4LW, 4RW, 6D, 2G, 4BN, 4IR
C: McDavid, MacKinnon, Hischier
LW: B.Tkachuk, Ovechkin, Paul(C), Jones
LW/RW: Meier, Fiala, Giroux(C), Niederreiter
RW: Reinhart, Anderson
D: Josi, Matheson, Durzi, Moser, Cernak, Zadorov, Siegenthaler
G: Daccord, Merzlikins, Vanecek, Pickard
44 minors; most noteables: A.Schmid, E.Andrae, M.Kesselring, S.Malinski, B.Pachal, L.Bichsel, E.Soderblom,...