Want to play fantasy hockey?

welcome to the Cold then!! (good name for a hockey team!!)

yea, my real dedication to following hockey was many, many, many years ago but i find that fantasy hockey is helping me learn some about the game today and who's good now. gives me more to read in the sports news at least. :p
 
btw - that's 5 teams now. we need at least one more, and preferably 3. if you're on the edge about doing this, go ahead and give it a try. we promise not to razz you too much and to be as helpful as possible. :)
 
well, i think that if we don't have more teams by the end of today, i will make this league public at yahoo to fill the league out. we'll stipulate that it is for mac users. this could be a good thing if we end up meeting some new folks as a result.
 
last call before i move it to the public domain in about 4 hours. after that, you can still join as long as the league hasn't filled up - i have set it for a maximum of 10. (btw - the link is in the first post of this thread)
 
ok, i've just made it available to any yahoo member searching for a team. i did say in the description that it is "for Apple MacIntosh users". we'll go draft ready about 24 hrs after the last team joins. so have your draft rankings finalized by then. once we change our status to ready, you can't change them.
 
I need to get out of the News and Rumors forum more often. Been looking for a fantasy league. I'm in, the Sam Brown Belts.
 
hey Edx, when are you gonna release to draft our team's players?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't got no durn players. ;)
thx!
 
quiksan - about 24 hrs after the 10th team joins. we are currently up to eight. we are now getting players from the yahoo public as well as here. (the league still says it's for mac users). i would guess we'll go draft ready tomorrow and have teams by sunday at the latest. if so, we'll start our season on monday.
 
ok, we've got 10 teams and we've drafted. league play starts on monday so whatever your lineup does before then doesn't count for anything. remember you can change players daily - good strategy to play guys whose teams are playing and bench those who aren't. you can set your lineup for the whole week in a single session for this. just keep jumping your roster ahead one day and make the changes. this is good when you don't have time everyday.

good luck all!!
 
wow, i'm ahead at the end of week one. but looking at the other games, i can see it was largely in part to who i got matched up against. some of you have better teams than i do. which is why i've been active adding and dropping players.

a few hints i've picked up - you can change your lineup for the whole week at once. but if you add or drop anybody, you have to redo it. several of you haven't even checked your lineups it seems. lots of 'NA' (not available) players still in roster spots - some active. and you can move an IR player to IR staus and free up a spot on your team for adding another player till the other one is healthy. but you don't have to reactivate him when the NHL does. you can wait and see how he does before deciding if and when to drop another player to add them back to active status.

when looking at free agents, try ordering them by rank, not q-rank. q-rank was their projected ability. rank is how they are really doing now that the season has started. but don't be too quick to give up on highly ranked q-rank guys who are having a slow start. some of my worst players right now are some of myhighest draft choices. but i made the mistake in the past of giving up on them in this situation and regretted it. most of the top 50 or so are proven players who will most likely spring back before long. another way to order them is by what you are lacking. look at where you are not doing well and look to add players that excell in that area - like FW or PIM or =/-. you might do better with a mediocre player with lots of one of these than with a slightly above average player who gives you none of them.

well, that's my free advice for the day. :)
 
and do remember that you can change your lineup daily. this is important as different teams play on different days. the only days you're likely to have a full team of active players are thur and sat. like i said though, you can go ahead and do them in advance. you don't need to actually change them by visiting the site each day unless you really want to.
 
mdnky & nb3004- you seriously need to manage your teams. you have several players who are not in hockey any more and at least one on IR. you can move them to IR status and make room for another player. the NA players you should just dump and pick up new players in the same positions more or less. you've both got the core of a very good team, with a few more active players you'll be really competitive i think.

sjb - wtf? half your team is on the bench. you need to put them back in active roster spots. they're not scoring for you any more.
 
oh mdnky - i should say that you should hang on to havlat - he is on his way back. he was just a hold out.
 
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