I haven't had any HUGE screwups, but here's my most memorable dumb moves in the dynasty I've been in (now entering year 3)
1) Going into a dynasty draft not having a clue that age is important and not researching prospects beforehand (played it like a 1 year league).
2) Drafting Lidstrom 2 years ago with my 3rd round pick (35th) with guys like Stastny, Nash, Toews, Kopitar, Richards, Perry, Miller, Sedin, Ward, etc available. Luckily was able to get Hodgson for him in a trade (league hates old guys)
3) Dropping Wayne Simmonds last year. Didn't think much of him at the time, but could really use his PIM in my league format.
4) Drafting Rob Blake the pick before Mark Streit (again, played that draft like a 1 year. Even with that in mind, dumb pick).
5) Dropping Hornqvist 2 years ago for Owen Nolan.
10-Team Non-salaried H2H Keeper, 20 Players Each, Keeping 10
13 active (3 C, 5 W, 3 D, 2 G, 2 Util) / 7 reserve
Player Stats: G, A, P, PPP, HIT, BLCK, SHP, SOG
Goalie Stats: W, GAA, SAVE%, SO, Saves
C: Barkov, Schiefele, Tavares, Trocheck
W: Kucherov, Panarin, Gaudreau, Huberdeau, Wilson, Hall, Keller, Kubalik, Toffoli, Hathaway
D: Sergachev, Doughty, Gudas
G: Vasilevskiy, Markstrom, Francouz
Bad trades yes....learnings priceless..
Going into 3rd year of fantasy lots of learnings...the hard way,
I got SMason, Selanne, Zajac but gave Bryzgalov, Plekanec (Dec 2009)
Still wake up at night sweating
I got Vanek I gave D.Sedin (Oct 2009)
I gave: Perry I got Frolik, Jokinen, Little (Oct2009)
Lastly
I gave Kane I got Alfredsson, MSchneider, Streit (Oct 2008)
Important notes, started fantasy hockey in 2008, all above were in same league
December 2009 - found Dobber nation..........
Team 1:
10 Team Keeper, keep 16.
Cat: +/-, PIMs, G, A, Pts, STG (PPG+SHG), GAA, SPct, W
Roto, No Max games, weekly lineups - 12F, 6D, 4G - 6 bench
F: Benn, Bennett, Crosby, Hughes, Keller, Kopitar, Lindolm, Perron, Schmalts, Stephenson, Tavares, Thompson
Bench - Lafreniere, Roslovic, Schenn
D: Chabot, Dahlin, Josi, Hronek, Morrissey, Schenn
Bench - Sandin
G: F. Copley, Gustavsson, Skinner, Sorokin
Bench: Merzlikins, Petersen, Andersen (IR)
When Karlsson got sent to the minors for a short stint, I hung onto him for about 2 weeks then decided "screw it I need points now and this Chris Butler dude sees some PP time."
Karlsson got called up about 2 days later (by my arch rival) and is now pretty much untouchable in our league format (pts only salary cap). Oh well my D still turned out alright.
12 tm pts only dynasty
F (count 12): Bedard, Boldy, Beniers, Cooley, Michkov, Norris, Landeskog, Rossi, Reichel, Pelletier, Tomasino, Foerster, Bordeleau, Lysell, Wahlstrom, Bourque, Stankoven, Nazar, Othmann, Ostlund, O.Moore
D (count 6): McAvoy, Kylington, Byram, Boqvist, Perunovich, Lundkvist, L.Hughes, Zellweger, Morrow
G (count 2): Askarov, Wallstedt, Wolf, Kochetkov, Levi
3 round draft and 1 waiver per team per year
Wasn't me but in a friend keeper, One GM went after Kariya BEFORE last season started (dobber's infamous 83pt prediction)...
He gave up Doughty and a 1st round pick (3rd overall) FOR Kariya and a 3rd round.
He loves hearing about that one.
I feel your pain. Flashback to my league draft heading into the 08-09 season. Towards the end I pass on Karlsson, then tell one of the other GMs in the league to snag him. This offseason, I traded Phaneuf and the 7th overall to that same GM for Karlsson. Ugh.Originally Posted by deantime419
8-GM / WK-H2H
Forwards: G=2, A=1, PP/SH= +1, GWG= +2, Shootout G=1, HT= +1
D-Men/Captain: G=3/A=2
Goalies: W=3, OTL=1, SO= +2, SV= .10
Start = 13F, 6D, 2G / Keep 44 (3G)
Captain: Matthews
(F): MacKinnon, Pasta, Marner, Rantanen, Malkin, Barkov, M.Tkachuk, W.Nylander, Pettersson, Gaudreau, Laine, Keller, Miller, B.Tkachuk, Stutzle, DeBrincat, L.Raymond, K.Johnson, Cozens, Quinn, Guenther, Kulich, Cooley
(D): Makar, Dahlin, Q.Hughes, Ekblad, Rielly, Werenski, Letang, Jones, Chychrun, Seider, Edvinsson, Jiricek, Korchinski, Mintyukov, Ceulemans, Hutson
(G): Shesterkin, Demko, Vejmelka
Dropped Pekka Rinne early last year when he was struggling and my entire team was struggling.
Picked up Jon Quick off waivers to replace him, so it was okay last year....but I would LOVE to still have Rinne. I just think he's a pimp. Mind you, I later moved Quick in a package deal for Tavares...so that wasn't too bad.
Also gave up Henrik Sedin last fall for Marleau and Oshie. Clearly, I did not foresee Hank's 112pt year. I like Oshie a lot and Marleau is a good player, but I'd love to still have Henrik.
1st year in long running salary cap keeper league with about another 4 new guys to the league in the year after the lock-out. Hadn't watched hockey for a while. Didn't think the entry/farm team picks were a good idea because of the cap hit so I passed my 1st overall entry pick to the shock of everyone... why?
Ovechkin!
10 Team Salary Cap Keeper League-protect up to 15
Total of points and +/-; position vs. position (ie. my 2 Centres vs. his 2 Centres)
C -Crosby, Ribeiro, Strome, Granlund
LW -Neal, Nyquist, Johansson, TBD
RW -Coyle, Eberle, TBD, TBD
D -Streit, Phaneuf, Green, Keith, Letang, TBD
G -S. Mason, TBD
Several years ago in my keeper I used my 1st overall draft pick for Colby Armstrong , it was a huge gamble , he had performed very well in his 1st stint the season before in the playoffs for the Pens.The hype was huge and the Pens were to be the future dynasty team.In a word BUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roto type keeper league.We keep any 6 ;15 teams , 3 div. of 5.We play 3 lines , 3 def. and start 2 goalies.6 BN.Stats are 1pt. for goals and assists , 2pts. for W , tie(O.T. or S.O. loss) 1pt. S.O. 1pt.Weekly line-up from Mon. to Sun. Total pts. per line against other teams lines.
LW - Ovechkin , Drouin ,Steen , Huberdeau
RW - Nash , Callahan , Nyquist
C - B. Schenn , Fisher , R.N.H. , St. Louis , T. Johnson
Def.- E. Johnson , Gologoski , Suter , Doughty , O.E.L.
G - Scheinder , Dubnyk , Lack
Not me but my friend in the first year of my keeper league he sent his grandmother to pick because he was busy that day and his team ended up looking like this.
Daniel Sedin(Keeper)
Henrik Sedin(Keeper)
Loui Eriksson(Keeper)
Viktor Kozlov
Jordan Staal(Keeper)
Mark Rechhi
Jason Pominville(Keeper)
Peter Sykora
Colby Armstrong
Ryan Malone
Chris Pronger(Keeper)
Kimo Timonen(Keeper)
Marc-Edourd Vlasic
Paul Martin(Keeper)
Wade Redden
Trevor Daley
Cam Ward(Keeper)
J.S. Giguere
He finished 199 points back but has a decent core of players and with a good draft this year could become a competitive team.But I think he learned his lesson.lol
Late last season...trading Kessel for a 1st round pick....in a pool where there are 12 teams and you have 15 keepers. That's how much I hate him.
LOL.I dont see why he gets no love I personally love him.But still LOL.
I just didnt feel like keeping him...and I knew there were a lot of Leafs fan in my league so I did it. I know....I regret it now. Especially since Im lacking a top RW.....until Giroux pans out
Speaking of Kessel... not me (but some other GM) traded his first and second this year and his first next year for the guy. The first turned out to be Seguin and the 1st next year looks to be a top 5 pick. To make matters worse, Kessel doesnt even have a center to pass him the puck!!
Yikes...
The dumbest move I can remember making is in my first year of fantasy hockey a few years ago: I drafted Martin Havlat in the 5th round. Guys like Vanek, Marleau, Semin and Eric Staal went right after him.
I still cringe at that.
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10 Team Yahoo H2H - Keep 5 - G,A,+/-,PPP,PIMS,HITS SOG,GWG/W,GAA,SV%,SO
C: Tavares, Pavelski, Fabbri, Matthews, Rakell,
LW: Landeskog, Sedin, Perron
RW: Kucherov, Oshie, Radulov, Backes
D: Subban, Petry, Gostisbehere, Green, Yandle, Werenski
G: Price, Talbot
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