Fantasy Hockey 2011-2012

MrJoeSoap

Hi all,

Is there enough interest out there to set up a Fantasy Hockey League for the upcoming season?

I was thinking of perhaps going with a Live Online Draft, Rotisserie league?

Basically it means we all agree on a time to be online together, and pick players as in a draft situation (first pick in round one is last pick in round two etc...). The Rotisserie League is described below:

In a Rotisserie League, fantasy teams are ranked from first to last in each of several statistical categories. Points are awarded according to these rankings, with the most points in each category going to the highest-ranked team. These points are then totaled to determine the overall standings. The team highest in the standings at the end of the season is declared the winner.

The alternative would be a Head-to-Head league:

A standard Head-to-Head league lets you square off each week against another manager. Each stat category counts as one 'game,' with the win going to the team that finishes the week with the highest total in that category. This weekly win-loss total will be added to a cumulative season record. Teams with the best records will compete in playoffs after the regular season.

Thoughts?

smackbunnybaby

Hey, I'd be up for it!

There were a few names in the Pre-season talk thread as well you mentioned they wanted in.

I would prefer a Head to Head league however, it seems to make it more competitive!

I saw the Yahoo hockey opened the other week

smackbunnybaby

StevoTG mentioned it

MrJoeSoap

Head-to-head league will be great fun with just the two of us! Anyone else out there interested? You don't need to be an expert on the league or anything like that!

smackbunnybaby

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Head-to-head league will be great fun with just the two of us! Anyone else out there interested? You don't need to be an expert on the league or anything like that!

Will drop a post in the NFL and MLB threads.

GoldFour4

Throw me in Only found out this was an ice hockey forum a minute ago. Flames fan:D

Cool_CM

I would potentially be up for this!

MrJoeSoap

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Will drop a post in the NFL and MLB threads.

I'll go through the posters on this forum and send PM's to see if anyone has maybe missed this thread. 10-12 would be a decent number I reckon.

Coeus

I can play if ye are looking for numbers. I played in a public rotisserie league on Yahoo a few years ago and found it nearly as much work as baseball as the games are on every day.

I agree on making it a head-to-head league like the baseball and American football boards fantasy leagues.

smackbunnybaby

It wouldn't be fantasy league if I wasn't playing Coeus!
This will be the 3rd time!

I'd favour Yahoo, I find it much easier to negotiate than ESPN.com!

Coeus

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

It wouldn't be fantasy league if I wasn't playing Coeus!
This will be the 3rd time!

I'd favour Yahoo, I find it much easier to negotiate than ESPN.com!

Yes indeed, I see we have a matchup in the football later in the season and a potential final or consolation final next week in the baseball depending how things go in that over the weekend...

Back on topic for the hockey league, I agree on Yahoo. We should probably use the standard scoring cats of the public leagues aswell.

persie11

like malachyscott, i just found out that there was a hockey forum!

count me in, head to head would be my preference.

krissovo

Count me in! Another Flames fan here

MrJoeSoap

Hi all,

So the names we have so far are:

1. MrJoeSoap
2. smackbunnybaby
3. malachyscott
4. Cool_CM
5. Coeus
6. persie11
7. krissovo
8. Gridlock (via PM)
9. JONJO THE MISER (via PM)
10. cena (via PM)

If we have serious interest from more that 12 people I'll see about setting up a custom league on Yahoo.

TechnoPool

im up for it

MrJoeSoap

1. MrJoeSoap
2. smackbunnybaby
3. malachyscott
4. Cool_CM
5. Coeus
6. persie11
7. krissovo
8. Gridlock (via PM)
9. JONJO THE MISER (via PM)
10. cena (via PM)
11. TechnoPool
12. COYW (via PM)

Thats 12 anyway, but if anyone else is interested let us know. I'll leave it a few days before we start talking about the live draft...

StevoTG

Count me in too if there's room.

MrJoeSoap

Hi all,

The league has been created with the below settings (I can change these at any stage in the coming weeks. I've set it up for 14 teams, but if we get more than that we can expand it a bit. The most important thing is that we need an even number of teams or the draft won't work. I have set the draft provisionally for next Thursday, but again that will probably change.

Can everyone try and join now by going to http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey and clicking the yellow "Join A League" button in the middle of the screen. Then once you are signed in you should see "Accept Invite" on the left hand side. I will PM everyone the password in the next hour or so, and anyone else who wishes to join in the coming days.

If anyone has any questions about the below, just ask.
If anyone isn't sure as to how Fantasy Hockey works, just ask.
If anyone thinks we should change any of the below, just ask.

League ID#: 39900
League Name: Boards.ie
Password: Sent by PM
Custom League URL: http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/boards_ie
Draft Type: Live Standard Draft
Draft Time: Thu Sep 22 11:00pm BST
Max Teams: 14
Live Draft Pick Time: 1 Minute
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 3
Trade End Date: March 8, 2012
Allow Draft Pick Trades: No
Waiver Time: 3 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Trade Review: League Votes
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Acquisitions per Week: 4
Min Games Played: 3
Weekly Deadline: Weekly on Monday
Start Scoring on: Week 1
Playoffs: Week 22, 23 and 24 (6 teams)
Note: Week 24 runs 7 days from Mar 26 to Apr 1
Playoff Reseeding: No
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
Divisions: No
Make League Publicly Viewable: Yes
Roster Positions: C, C, LW, LW, RW, RW, D, D, D, D, G, G, BN, BN, BN, BN, IR

Forwards/Defensemen Stat Categories:
Goals (G),
Assists (A),
Plus/Minus (+/-),
Penalty Minutes (PIM),
Powerplay Points (PPP),
Shorthanded Points (SHP),
Shots on Goal (SOG)

Goaltenders Stat Categories:
Wins (W),
Goals Against Average (GAA),
Save Percentage (SV%),
Shutouts (SHO)

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I have set the draft provisionally for next Thursday, but again that will probably change.

Hey, I just registered my team (Henry Le Cheat). Is it possible to have the draft later, after the 28th of Sept would be good for me. In other boards fantasy leagues the GMs set up Polls to find the date and time to suits the majority. It usually the best way to come to a consensus...

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

Hey, I just registered my team (Henry Le Cheat). Is it possible to have the draft later, after the 28th of Sept would be good for me. In other boards fantasy leagues the GMs set up Polls to find the date and time to suits the majority. It usually the best way to come to a consensus...

Definitely, yeah. I wasn't intending to have it next Thursday, I just had to put a date in when I set up the league. I'll do up a poll or something for the draft once people are in the league.

cena

Do i start picking my players. I'm not sure what too do

MrJoeSoap

cena wrote: »

Do i start picking my players. I'm not sure what too do

No you can just pick your team name and if you want you can start picking your rankings for the draft.

What will happen is we'll all decide on a day and time to have the draft, and we'll all go online at the same time and start picking players, one after the other. So if you are 3rd in the draft (which is randomly decided), two people get to pick a player before you. So if you have a list of the players you would like, in order of preference, keep it handy for the draft.

Out of interest, who has joined the league?

Chara's Inner Demon?
Rusty Nails?
Go NHL?

cena

I'm the bottom team. Go nhl

Izy

i guess i'm late to this :eek:

COYW

In there now, Ovie's_front_teeth.

StevoTG

I'm Rusty Nails.

krissovo

Flaming A-Holes for me

MrJoeSoap

Izy wrote: »

i guess i'm late to this :eek:

Not at all. PM Sent.

Izy

thx, signed up and ready to go!

did you think off a live auction draft???
its a lot more fun than an ordinary snake draft.

you have a 200 $ budget and bid against others for any player you pick the highest bid takes the player, but have to be carefull not to spend all your $ on two guys so you can fill your roster....

krissovo

I thought it was going to follow the same format as the draft in that we pick players in a defined order.

Looking forward to this, I will edit my picks over the next few days.

krissovo

:-(

MrJoeSoap

Izy wrote: »

thx, signed up and ready to go!

did you think off a live auction draft???
its a lot more fun than an ordinary snake draft.

you have a 200 $ budget and bid against others for any player you pick the highest bid takes the player, but have to be carefull not to spend all your $ on two guys so you can fill your roster....

I'm about to do a mock auction draft to see what I think. Whichever gets more votes from people will be picked.

I see Krissovo is there too

krissovo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I'm about to do a mock auction draft to see what I think. Whichever gets more votes from people will be picked.

I will see you in there I think I am in the same auction as you.

MrJoeSoap

krissovo wrote: »

I will see you in there I think I am in the same auction as you.

Thoughts?

I think there is quite a large scope for error in the auction draft, and that inexperienced fantasy players might not enjoy it as much as the snake draft. I'd be happy to do either but I think the standard draft is probably a safer option.

MrJoeSoap

For simplicity sake...

MrJoeSoap Board Street Bullies
smackbunnybaby TBDTBC
malachyscott Golden Flames
Cool_CM Not yet joined
Coeus Henry Le Cheat
persie11 Chara's Inner Demon
krissovo Flaming A-Holes
Gridlock Not yet joined
JONJO THE MISER Not yet joined
cena Go nhl
TechnoPool Not yet joined
COYW Ovie's_front_teeth
StevoTG Rusty Nails
Izy izy's penguins

It's still not too late if anyone else is looking to join.

Izy

Well I don't mind what way the draft is done,
But it was a breath of fresh air with the auction one this year.

On the other side if guys don't show for the draft the CPU just bids unreal money on players...


Maybe we can have 2 leagues

MrJoeSoap

Izy wrote: »

Well I don't mind what way the draft is done,
But it was a breath of fresh air with the auction one this year.

On the other side if guys don't show for the draft the CPU just bids unreal money on players...


Maybe we can have 2 leagues

I'm stressed enough with one draft to think about! The amount of thought and research I'm putting in this year is stupid, and it'll probably backfire.

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I'm stressed enough with one draft to think about! The amount of thought and research I'm putting in this year is stupid, and it'll probably backfire.

Jeez, you are putting me to shame. I am planning to sit down tonight and think things through.

persie11

Izy wrote: »

Well I don't mind what way the draft is done,
But it was a breath of fresh air with the auction one this year.

On the other side if guys don't show for the draft the CPU just bids unreal money .......

I don't mind which way the draft is done but the auction would be interesting.

Shanannigan

i'm in... already got a fantasy hockey account set up so where do i find this particular league?

MrJoeSoap

Shanannigan wrote: »

i'm in... already got a fantasy hockey account set up so where do i find this particular league?

See post 18 above and I'll PM you the password. We do need one more player now to make the league even numbers, because we can't do the draft with uneven numbers.

COYW

Was doing a mock draft last night but the draft window pop up would not load when the draft started. Anyone else have this? The progress bar was stuck at 90% or so. I am using Chrome btw.

krissovo

COYW wrote: »

Was doing a mock draft last night but the draft window pop up would not load last night when the draft started. Anyone else have this? The progress bar was struck at 90% or so. I am using Chrome btw.

It does the same on my work PC using firefox, my home computer (mac) works fine using firefox. It must be a setting somewhere or firewall issue but I have not bothered to have a look.

MrJoeSoap

krissovo wrote: »

It does the same on my work PC using firefox, my home computer (mac) works fine using firefox. It must be a setting somewhere or firewall issue but I have not bothered to have a look.

Had the same problem with Firefox on the PC, switched to Chrome and it worked.

Can everyone try and at least enter a mock draft to ensure the browser they are using works? Using the "Test your system to ensure the draft application will work correctly." probably won't be enough because that worked for me but an actual mock draft did not.

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Had the same problem with Firefox on the PC, switched to Chrome and it worked.

Can everyone try and at least enter a mock draft to ensure the browser they are using works? Using the "Test your system to ensure the draft application will work correctly." probably won't be enough because that worked for me but an actual mock draft did not.

Yep, the test was successful for me also, for the record. I will do some more digging tonight at home.

MrJoeSoap

COYW wrote: »

Yep, the test was successful for me also, for the record. I will do some more digging tonight at home.

Try Firefox and IE and see if you can get into a mock draft that way.

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Try Firefox and IE and see if you can get into a mock draft that way.

Firefox 6.0.2 did the trick.

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Try Firefox and IE and see if you can get into a mock draft that way.

Firefox 6.0.2 did the job. I am on Windows 7.

MrJoeSoap

Had my first proper mock draft tonight, trying to get some sort of strategy together... A lot of work to do yet!

Hows everyone else's preparation going?

krissovo

I have done 2 now, my first draft (12th position) would have been up there as one of the top contenders IMO. My 2nd draft (5th) just turned into a bit of a disaster and ended up with a very average team.

I may do another one later to see if my strategy just produced a one off duff team or if my strategy just sucks.It could be that my 1st draft was a bunch of amateurs and the 2nd was loaded with "pro" fantasy participants.

One issue I have I that I have not followed the NHL properly for two seasons due to a new baby, new job and other issues. Some of the players I am targeting have had their moment so maybe a bit more research would cure that.

MrJoeSoap

krissovo wrote: »

I have done 2 now, my first draft (12th position) would have been up there as one of the top contenders IMO. My 2nd draft (5th) just turned into a bit of a disaster and ended up with a very average team.

I may do another one later to see if my strategy just produced a one off duff team or if my strategy just sucks.It could be that my 1st draft was a bunch of amateurs and the 2nd was loaded with "pro" fantasy participants.

One issue I have I that I have not followed the NHL properly for two seasons due to a new baby, new job and other issues. Some of the players I am targeting have had their moment so maybe a bit more research would cure that.

I'm the same, although I did follow last season quite closely so much has happened over the summer that it takes a while to catch back up. A few mock drafts and a bit of googling will help. I've started a new job where looking up this type of thing is encouraged, I certainly can't complain about that!

Congrats on the baby by the way.