Team Goaltending Question

[bh1991]

My league has team goaltending. A goalie gets 6 points for a win, -3 for a loss in regulation, .1 for each save and -.5 for each GA. I recently dropped Nashville for Tampa Bay and realize that was a mistake. Both Nashville and Atlanta are available. Which one would you pick up and why?

Thanks,
Barry

[Dutch]

I'd go for Nashville, but I am biased

[metaldude26]

Oooh, that's a tough call. My guess is you'll see both Atlanta and Nashville make the playoffs as one of the 5-8 seeds, which means similar win totals. Nashville is probably more dependable in terms of goals against so that's the direction I'd go.

[pudge]

No bonus for shutouts?
This is close to a coinflip imo I can come up with 5-7 reasons for each side and they are completely unrelated to each other.

If you want to gamble for the win go with Atlanta and hope that they continue on overachieving in the softer east conference and add more talent at the deadline.
If you want the safe consistent bet to backstop a strong contending team, go with Nashville as the goals against will be lower as will regulation losses.

Nashville by a small margin over Atlanta with Atlanta having the higher upside. (uunless shutouts are worth extra)