Daily Fantasy Hockey Value Picks – 10/27
Each day throughout the NHL season I am going to be recommending players to target in your DFS lineups with the focus on tournament lineups (with DraftKings prices). I will try to avoid posting the obvious plays on a given night — for example Tyler Seguin is almost an automatic play for me every day he […]
Fantasy Hockey Three Stars — Seventh Heaven!
The last night of round one featured a little of everything for the fantasy hockey fan and even an exclamation point to one of the greatest comebacks in round one history.
Fantasy Hockey Three Stars — Game 7 Trifecta!
Fantasy hockey fans only had one game on Tuesday but what a game it was for the orange and black as Philadelphia won 5-2. Now, there will be three Game 7’s.
Fantasy Hockey: First-Time Full-Time Goalies
A few weeks ago, I wrote about two goalies that I will be avoiding at all costs this year. The biggest reason is I don’t think they are very good, but the secondary reason being that I just don’t trust them. With goaltending being such an integral part of your fantasy hockey success, you don’t […]
Fantasy Hockey: Eastern Conference Goaltenders and Blow-Up Rates
Last week, I wrote about how a team’s possession rates probably won’t make a goalie’s stats much worse unless the goalie sucked to begin with (Steve Mason), but how a team’s penalty killing can affect just about any goaltender for better (James Reimer in 2013) or for worse (James Reimer from 2010-2012). There’s a concept […]
Fantasy Hockey: Evaluating and Projecting Goaltenders
How good a goaltender projects to be is a very precarious proposition. There are so many mitigating factors that play into how a goaltender performs at the NHL level that anyone who proclaims that they know a certain goaltender will be elite before they actually prove it over a large sample (there’s no real baseline, but […]