Upside Down Value of Goalies - ADVICE NEEDED
Hey all, so I've mentioned this before without much commentary and I'm hoping some other people with a bit more expertise and insight can give me some advice on what to do here.
My whole team is listed in signature: but what you need to know is that my current goaltenders are Cory Crawford and Braden Holtby, not a bad duo at all but in the context of my league they may have to be replaced...
Here's what I mean - the stats counted in my league, as listed below are this:
Goaltenders Stat Category Value
Games Started (GS) 1
Wins (W) 3
Losses (L) -1
Goals Against (GA) -1
Saves (SV) .5
Shutouts (SHO) 3
Saves (SV) is bolded and underlined because, in my opinion, it is THE key stat here, and can negate GA and L for a goalie if they have a TON of saves during a game. It's worth HALF a point...
(HTML code was the onyl way to get the numbers to line up relatively close...)
Some examples in my league - here are the current stats of my two goaltenders for the season:
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GS W L GA SV SHO Fan Pts
Corey Crawford Chi - 3 1 1 9 73 0 32.50
Braden Holtby Was - 4 0 3 13 89 0 32.50
My goaltenders are tied right now in points, but despite 4 more GA and 2 more L and no W, because he made 16 more saves Holtby is at the same number of points.
Now, check out these goaltenders available in FA:
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GS W L GA SV SHO Fan Pts
Ondrej Pavelec Wpg - 5 2 3 16 153 0 68.50
Steve Mason Phi - 4 1 3 8 116 0 54.00
Joey MacDonald Cgy - 4 3 0 12 104 0 53.00
Semyon Varlamov Col - 3 3 0 3 88 0 53.00
Ryan Miller Buf - 3 0 3 7 106 0 46.00
Currently, Pavelec sits as the #1 goalie in my league, teamless, with him + Mason, McDonald and Varlamov all in the top 10.
Crawford and Holtby don't even break the top 25.
I'd really like to know peoples' opinions on this, it's a money league and I gotta have the best goalie tandem available if I'm gonna win this thing this year...
1-Year/12 Team/H2H/Weekly Yahoo League
G(3) A(1.5) +/-(1) PIM(0.25) PPP(2) SHP(3) GWG (1) SOG(0.25) FW (0.05) HIT (0.25) BLK (0.50)
GS(1) W(3) L(-1) GA(-0.5) SV(0.25) SO(5)
C: C. Giroux, A. Matthews
LW: A. Panarin, T. Hall
RW: D. Perron, B. Point
D: D. Doughty, R. Suter, J. Trouba
Util: H. Zetterberg
Bench: O. Ekman-Larsson, V. Arvidsson, E. Haula
IR: N. Zeitsev
G: H. Lundqvist, S. Varlamov
Bench: M. Jones