2023/2024 Rocky Horror Roto Show - Spooky Season #13

[4T2]

Another great season in the books guys! Congrats to the rookie duntroon68 on getting a huge win in his first year!

Final standings -

1 Pet Semyontary - 131
2 The Kings in Yellow - 125.5
3 Hotel Guentzelvania -102
4 Dear McDavid - 95
5 ABennDunned (EB) - 94.5
6 Island of Dr. Pageau - 94
7 Jason X(hekaj) (YL) - 90
8 Rust - 89
9 Maaaaaa-chete - 77.5
10 Under The Skinner (AW) - 75.5
11 Natural Born Quiller - 68
12 The Amity-Ville Horror (PH) - 50

[PenguinHunter]

Congrats duntroon!!

[Shoeless]

Well a little late, but a big shout out to Duntroon68 for topping the league, in his rookie season. Certainly a stick tap to Pete and Gabe for their solid seasons to finish 2nd & 3rd.

I would be remiss if I didn't thank Teemu for taking McDavid off my hands around mid-season. Finally a trade with Teemu that worked in my favor.

And on the Cambodia front, we have just received funding for a 5 year intervention in two remote villages with very high rates of malnutrition. Thanks to Ryan Ma for a game changing financial contribution along the way and to Quentin for his brilliant guidance on sustainable solutions via social enterprise.

We are into our 3rd week of 40 + degree weather - come on monsoon! Catch y'all in September.

[YzermansLegacy]

I'll jump in with my personal draft analysis:


Overall Draft Grade: A-
While I missed getting a few of mytargets I'm still happy with the balance that came out in the end. Iam banking a LOT on guys staying/getting healthy and if that doesn'thappen I won't be near the podium. But if it does, I'm happy with thefoundational pieces and with the #1 waiver, my enjoyment of tradingand using the wire... I think I can at minimum be a pain in the assto everyone this year.


And let's be real – the quality ofGMs in this league is second-to-none... so just exiting the draftwith a notion that you can compete is a win in my books.


Here's to a great season lads!

ROSTER:
C: A.Barkov, S.Aho, J.Eichel, R.O'Reilly, C.Coyle
R: P.Laine, P.Kane (IR), T.Jeannot,
L: J.Robertson, J.Huberdeau, M.Pacioretty (IR),
D: C.Makar, D.Nurse, D.Doughty, J.Sanderson, T.Krug, R.Ristolainen, A.Xhekaj, C.Addison
G: I.Samsonov, A.Hill, P.Copley, C.Talbot, S.Montembeault

Always like to revisit my early season draft thoughts to learn where my blind spots were for the year.

Finished 7/12 but bounced around from 5-9 the final month so in the end... just a mediocre showing that never really had a chance at winning.

As happy as I was with how the draft unfolded, I missed on critical early picks (J.Rob @ 12, I.Samsonov in the 4th) that are just too difficult to make up in-season. Add in some gambles that went WAY south (Laine, Huberdeau, Jeannot) and I was pretty much the character who runs up the stairs to get away from the killer... dead before the movie was half way done.

The other weird thing that happened was Yahoo/NHL amending hits mid-way through the year. I was in the top 2 for hits pre-adjustment and then found myself basically at the bottom of that cat when they adjusted. With Jeannot out and scrambling to find scoring (terrible SOG and have never had such a poor S% for a team) I then had to try and reverse course and also chase hits.

With Sammy tanking/being waived and losing LA handcuff + A.Hill for a while... I also had to use tons of space on guys like L.Dostal, D.Tarasov to hit my G max GPs. That's part of the deal with goalies... but with my skaters also needing help... I felt pretty limited on what I could do too.

There were some positives too and overall I liked my in-season management (to the extent I could tweak) - but WAY too many draft misses to seriously compete this year.

Still tried to be a PITA down the stretch for the challengers which is why I love this league - nobody quits on the season regardless of position in the standings.

HUGE stick taps for Duntroon coming in and pulling a Panarin on us in year one.
And standing O to Shoeless for what he's done IRL creating an impact that goes way beyond fantasy hockey.

A pleasure as always to be beaten by the best lads. Enjoy your summers!