TruePensFan1981 Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Some of you joined my Yahoo! fantasy hockey league last season, and are more than welcome to join yet again. Pasted below is all of the necessary information for you to understand the league and be able to log in and join it. If you are joining, then please sign up as soon as possible. This league uses a head-to-head format; therefore, it cannot operate with an odd number of teams. The sooner everybody joins, the sooner I can finalize the teams list. http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey League ID Number: 3364 Password: hockey This league uses a head-to-head scoring format and will feature a 25-round draft. In each round, you will have 60 seconds to select your player. At present time, the live online draft is scheduled for Saturday, September 24 @ 7:00 p.m. EDT. ROSTER SETUP C (4) W (6) D (5) Util (3) G (2) Bench (5) IR (3) SKATER STATS Goals Assists Points Plus/Minus PIM Powerplay Points Shots on Goal Faceoffs Won Hits GOALIE STATS Games Started Wins Goals Against Average Saves Save Percentage Shutouts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xot82 Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 (edited) Great, I'm in! I like that you have fewer Goalie categories this season. The goalies were too important last time. Edited September 15, 2011 by xot82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TruePensFan1981 Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 Great, I'm in! I like that you have fewer Goalie categories this season. The goalies were too important last time. Well, I don't really have fewer goalie categories, per se. I pretty much have the same things I always had for goalies, except that I removed losses and I added starts and saves. The reason it seems like there's fewer goalie categories this time is because I added more skater categories. Plus/Minus and PIM are obvious stats to use in leagues. With PP Points, Shots on Goal, Hits and Plus/Minus, d-men have more valuable than they had in my leagues before. Teams won't be able to get away with just loading up on forwards now and ignoring d-men. As for the goalies: goalies will always be important; however, I like the changes I made to the goaltending categories. Over the years, I have noticed people abusing the goalie categories. For example, somebody would get lucky and go 2-0 with 2 shutouts (0.00 GAA and 1.000 SV%) and then bench their goalies for the rest of the week. They will not get away with such abuse this time. If somebody abuses those stats in such a manner this year, then they will lose in Games Started and lose in Saves. With my new settings, I feel goalies still play an important role in a team's success and managers now have incentive to play their goalies as often as possible. Furthermore, these new settings help increase the trade value of defensemen as well. I think it will be a very balanced, fun and competitive league. The beauty of being a commissioner over the years is that if you pay enough attention, you can always find ways to improve your leagues. I think I'm a wiser commish now than I was years ago. I hope you all have fun in this league (but get your asses kicked when you play against me). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWingDevil Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 (edited) But why would you bench a goalie that's really running on a hot streak even if you got both shutouts? o.O Let's pretend that a goalie on the month of Novemmber (Like say, Jonathan Quick, Tomas Vokoun or Roberto Luongo) starts in around 14-15 games and goes on a 11-2-1 tear that includes around 3-4 SOs for his team? You don't want to bench the guy, you want him to win all of those games for you and your team! You'd have to be a complete 100% pure fruitloop if you commit such idiocy that comes to bite you on the ass a few months later. Edited September 15, 2011 by RedWingDevil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruePensFan1981 Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 But why would you bench a goalie that's really running on a hot streak even if you got both shutouts? o.O Let's pretend that a goalie on the month of Novemmber (Like say, Jonathan Quick, Tomas Vokoun or Roberto Luongo) starts in around 14-15 games and goes on a 11-2-1 tear that includes around 3-4 SOs for his team? You don't want to bench the guy, you want him to win all of those games for you and your team! You'd have to be a complete 100% pure fruitloop if you commit such idiocy that comes to bite you on the ass a few months later. The only thing idiotic here is your failure to read. This is a head-to-head league, which means there are weekly matchups. I have seen managers abuse their numbers in a weekly matchup by benching goalies for the rest of the week when they get a hot start. By including starts and saves as stats this year, that eliminates the incentive to abuse the statistics in such a way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruePensFan1981 Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 If any of you are interested, I have three teams available in another league (my keeper league) and I need replacement managers for those three teams. In my keeper league, you have to choose 10 players to protect, but no more than two of them can be goalies. In other words, you can protect 8 skaters and 2 goalies, 9 skaters and 1 goalie, or 10 skaters and 0 goalies. Regardless of which players you protect, you must protect 10 players. The unprotected players go into the draft pool. If any of you are interested in joining, then please reply to this topic and state which team you want. I will paste the three teams below. These teams will be assigned on a first-come/first-serve basis. After you state your interest and which team you want, then I will send you the necessary information to join the keeper league. Once you have the information and the league settings, then you will be fit to determine who your 10 keepers will be. TEAM 1 Miikka Kiprusoff Henrik Lundqvist James Reimer Patrice Bergeron Kevin Bieksa Dustin Brown Michael Cammalleri John Carlson Alexander Edler Tyler Ennis Roman Hamrlik James Neal Brian Rafalski Mark Recchi Stephane Robidas Tuomo Ruutu Patrick Sharp Alex Steen P.K. Subban Kimmo Timonen Lubomir Visnovsky Jakub Voracek Radim Vrbata Stephen Weiss Justin Williams Travis Zajac TEAM 2 Antero Niittymaki Tomas Vokoun Daniel Alfredsson Dustin Byfuglien Erik Cole Tim Connolly Shane Doan Chris Drury Sam Gagner Patric Hornqvist Evander Kane Anze Kopitar Andrei Kostitsyn Brooks Laich Nicklas Lidstrom Alexei Ponikarovsky Daniel Sedin Devin Setoguchi Wayne Simmonds Ryan Smyth Sheldon Souray Mark Streit Joe Thornton Dennis Wideman Marek Zidlicky TEAM 3 Brian Elliott Carey Price Marty Turco Nik Antropov Niclas Bergfors David Booth Rene Bourque Danny Briere Christian Ehrhoff Tobias Enstrom Alexander Frolov Mark Giordano Olli Jokinen Erik Karlsson Pavel Kubina Andrew Ladd Jamie Langenbrunner Patrick Marleau T.J. Oshie Dustin Penner Jason Pominville Chris Pronger Mason Raymond Derek Roy Alex Tanguay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWingDevil Posted September 15, 2011 Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 The only thing idiotic here is your failure to read. This is a head-to-head league, which means there are weekly matchups. I have seen managers abuse their numbers in a weekly matchup by benching goalies for the rest of the week when they get a hot start. By including starts and saves as stats this year, that eliminates the incentive to abuse the statistics in such a way. No, that's precisely what I am saying. In the older leagues you made with the original stats, coaches bench their star goalies during the hot streak because they don't want to take the losses. All that matters for them is the number of Ws before they sit them and that's what they were doing. That's not a pretty legit for guys to do things and it just smells all kinds of wrong. Now that you added the starts stat, they won't be able to pull such shenanigans and so fair play will be encouraged more. And Team 1, I thought that Recchi retired now? o.O Did you actually get word that he is coming back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruePensFan1981 Posted September 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2011 No, that's precisely what I am saying. In the older leagues you made with the original stats, coaches bench their star goalies during the hot streak because they don't want to take the losses. All that matters for them is the number of Ws before they sit them and that's what they were doing. That's not a pretty legit for guys to do things and it just smells all kinds of wrong. Now that you added the starts stat, they won't be able to pull such shenanigans and so fair play will be encouraged more. And Team 1, I thought that Recchi retired now? o.O Did you actually get word that he is coming back? First of all: no, that is not what you were saying in your other post. You were saying that it was idiotic for people to bench their goalies after shutouts back then because they would get hot again months later (thus implying that we're playing in a rotisserie league that keeps track of stats all year). I merely corrected you and said that this is a head-to-head league (in which managers have abused goalie stats in hot weeks for years). I then went on to tell you that attempting to abuse goalie stats this season will lead to being bitten in the ass because if they bench their goalies after getting a great SV% and GAA, they will still lose in starts and saves. But seriously, stop making stupid posts... it's giving me a headache. Secondly, Mark Recchi did retire (as did Chris Drury). Despite their retirements, I still have to list those players because I am copying last year's FINAL ROSTERS from those teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maitrefun Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 (edited) Im there ! Team of Stars ! I have a lot of experience in pool ! Enjoy to beat you ! Edited September 16, 2011 by Maitrefun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWingDevil Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 First of all: no, that is not what you were saying in your other post. You were saying that it was idiotic for people to bench their goalies after shutouts back then because they would get hot again months later (thus implying that we're playing in a rotisserie league that keeps track of stats all year). I merely corrected you and said that this is a head-to-head league (in which managers have abused goalie stats in hot weeks for years). I then went on to tell you that attempting to abuse goalie stats this season will lead to being bitten in the ass because if they bench their goalies after getting a great SV% and GAA, they will still lose in starts and saves. But seriously, stop making stupid posts... it's giving me a headache. Secondly, Mark Recchi did retire (as did Chris Drury). Despite their retirements, I still have to list those players because I am copying last year's FINAL ROSTERS from those teams. Fine, but if you're gonna be a total ass about whatever I post, you should just keep quiet and take it. I won't take it as kindly and patient next time, just so you know. I'll be present for the league alright, only now you just gave me a better reason why I'll show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HABS Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 hokkee lg shud be back but with H2H rotiserri style was the worst idea ever (HOKKKEE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWingDevil Posted September 16, 2011 Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 If Hokkee gets the memo I sent him from Yahoo, he'll start it. Otherwise, someone else make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruePensFan1981 Posted September 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2011 Fine, but if you're gonna be a total ass about whatever I post, you should just keep quiet and take it. I won't take it as kindly and patient next time, just so you know. I'll be present for the league alright, only now you just gave me a better reason why I'll show up. As opposed to the ass you've been being for a while? Enough with the macho act. If you're interested in the keeper league, then let me know and let me know which of the three teams you want to take over for. As for the one-year league, you were already in the league. You were one of the first four people to sign up for it before I posted about it here. And once again, it is H2H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sicarius Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 The only fantasy hockey league I'm in is one of the pay leagues on Yahoo. Twenty dollar entry fee and first place is $125. My draft isn't till this coming Sunday. Guess I'll have to do some roster homework this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xot82 Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 I quit, no point to participate if I cant join the draft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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