Salary Cap Pool

[Deadshot]

I am in a salary cap pool that uses the player salaries from Fanball.com Fantasy Hockey (http://ptshockey.fanball.com/rules/i...hp?page=roster). We pick 4 goalies, 4 centers, 6 wingers and 6 defense. TOTAL SALARY - 60 MILLION. 2 points for a goal, 1 for an assist. Goalie wins are worth 3 points and a bonus of 2 points for a shutout (shut-out game equals 5pts). We only get 6 trades for the season and you keep the points you get from traded players and only get the points from the new player from the date you get them.

Trying to put together a team and here's what I have so far. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

GOALIES(4)
FLEURY, MARC-ANDRE
EMERY, RAY
RINNE, PEKKA
VARLAMOV, SIMEON

CENTERS (4)
BACKSTROM, NICKLAS
CARTER, JEFF
TAVARES, JOHN
KOPITAR, ANZE

WINGERS (6)
OVECHKIN, ALEXANDER
RYAN, BOBBY
PERRY, COREY
SHARP, PATRICK
WILLIAMS, JUSTIN
OKPOSO, KYLE

DEFENSEMEN (6)
CAMPBELL, BRIAN
STREIT, MARK
MARKOV, ANDREI
LETANG, KRISTOPHER
GILBERT, TOM
GOLIGOSKI, ALEX

I generally suck at this pool every year so I am trying to put together something respectable. Looking for guys who can stay healthy since trades are scarce.

Thanks guys for any suggestions!

[Chuk]

You need to be focussing on value for dollar. I would look at goals and shots from last year due to the value of goals. The goalies are pretty good but I might consider Mason only because of the system he plays in.

I thought we were using actual salaries. I do not have the time to go through it all now, but there must be a way to put this in a spreadsheet.

Looks interesting.

[sexymountain]

a few guys i noticed that were very cheap that could surprise and be very important due to points/salary ratio.
Brassard, Giroux Oshie, frolik morrow eriksson yandle goligoski barker stamkos and im sure theres more. 1 thing i would definitly do is change campbell for shea weber.

[ESY16]

I threw together a roster for you to at least look at. Plenty of possibilities with a setup like this. This team comes to a total of $59,770,000:

Goalies (4) $13.62 Million

Henrik Lundqvist
Cam Ward
Pekka Rinne
Simeon Varlamov

Centers (4) $13.07 Million

Jeff Carter
David Krejci
Jonathan Toews
Steven Stamkos

Wingers (6) $20.12 Million

Alexander Ovechkin
Ilya Kovalchuk
Bobby Ryan
Michael Frolik
Claude Giroux
T.J. Oshie

Defensemen (6) $12.96 Million

Mike Green
Shea Weber
Tom Gilbert
Kevin Bieksa
Cam Barker
Kris Letang

[Deadshot]

Ok,that's two votes for Shea Weber so I guess he's a keeper. One thing I was trying to do was to match up line-mates so if I couldn't get the high point player I could possibly pick up the points with a line-mate. Do you think that's a good strategy or should I just focus on the goal scorers?

[Gordon L]

Your pool pays big time for goals, much less for assists. It also puts a big premium for goaltender wins and shutouts. I'd load my team with puck-hogging centers and wings, two top power play defensemen, and goalies likely to play the most games for winning teams. The last four defensemen would be about the cheapest that exist that will get some power play ice time. Here's my take:
CENTERS ($12.96)
Carter
Toews
Backes
Stamkos

WINGERS ($22.66)
Ovechkin
Nash
Gagne
Booth
Ryan
Giroux

DEFENSE ($10.95)
Green
Streit
Doughty
Beauchemin
Bogosian
Goligoski

GOALIES ($13.41)
Nabokov
Thomas
Rinne
Varlamov

GRAND TOTAL, $59,980,000

Best of luck!