Re: Advice on NHL Fantasy points scoring system?
Always appreciate the effort put in by someone to create their own custom scoring system. Kudos.
For sure I'd take the time to run both last year's stats and this year's stats through a program like Fantasy Hockey Geek just to get a sense if the "top" guys are still showing up as the "top guys". (You're ideally trying to avoid a scoring system that has Ovechkin worth more than McDavid... or maybe more apt, see what a guy like F.Vatrano scores with this and he's more valuable than a guy you'd consider to be top-100 then your values are off a little too much).
There's a lot here so I won't comment/nitpick on all of it - but rather offer my 2c of what I look at/consider before joining a league.
Q1: How are goals valued against assists?
My ideal is that goals have a bit of extra juice to them - but I tend to dislike leagues that favour a 30-20 skater over a 15-45 guy. To me, 50 pts, even with most as G's, should be as valuable as a 60pt guy... (although I can accept that they'd be closer in value).
You have the following value for goals: 3(goal) + 0.5 (Shot on goal) = 3.5 (with the potential for +2 big goal and/or +5 if it's a hattie). That's a potential for a minimum 16.5 for a hattrick and possibly 18.5 or more if any were scored on special teams/game winner.
Compare that to the value for assists: 2 (primary) or 1 (secondary) *FWIW I like that little distinction in custom value but might shrink it a bit - say 2 vs. 1.5
Let's say my guys had 3 primary assists on your hattie. I'm scoring 6 (2 x 3) while you're scoring 16.5. (special teams vs. big goals even out at 2 apiece).
I'd personally be a little worried that this a bit too skewed towards shooters/scorers as ideally you'd shoot for a 3 assist night being around at least 1/2 of the value of a hattrick night (my personal preference).
Q2: Are the best goalies "around" the same value as the top players?
Again this is where running the numbers will help so much. Personally, I won't worry too much about a McDavid/Draisaitl outlier in a shortened season (or a Vasilevskiy outlier) but rather where does the "meat" of the "top players" grade out against the other position? (You'd do this for D-scoring too).
Honestly seems like your intention is already aware of this (wanting to keep things balanced) so feel free to disregard if you've already considered all this - it was just what came to mind when considering how to contribute to your question.
I'm sure some commishes can comment more thoroughly/accurately than I can on this - but those are my thoughts in case they help!
Cheers -YL
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