Fantasy Hockey 2012-2013

MrJoeSoap

Hi guys,

Three months to the start of the regular season, so I just said I'd get the ball rolling on next years Fantasy Hockey season. I'm sure some of last years regulars will be interested. If you'd like to compete, just reply here and we can get more serious around September time. I'll send out PM's then as well to the people who have visited the forum over the past season.

Roll on October 11th!

MJS

smackbunnybaby

I'm in again this year.
3 months away...? jaysus!! :eek:

GoldFour4

in again !

cena

I'm not sure if I well join again. Really did bad and not a clue what I was doing

shefellover93

Provisionally in :pac:

Izy

I'm in, and joining only this and maybe one more league as opposed to last years six:eek: so it will have my full attention

alanmcl12

Count me in

COYW

cena wrote: »

I'm not sure if I well join again. Really did bad and not a clue what I was doing

I didn't exactly light up the world either but I am defo back in. Thought I had a good team but they didn't get going at all. Sure it's a bit of fun.

smackbunnybaby

COYW wrote: »

I didn't exactly light up the world either but I am defo back in. Thought I had a good team but they didn't get going at all. Sure it's a bit of fun.

This is it.
on paper you might think you have the best playres , but it doesnt work out that way.
every season is different.
I learned a thing or two about concussions as well.
you just cant factor stuff like that in!

MrJoeSoap

How did people find the overall setup last year? Number of teams, roster size, daily roster changes, scoring categories etc...?

Anyone want to see any changes?

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Anyone want to see any changes?

I would like to see shots blocked in there in some form. Not a massive fan of PIMs. Other than this (and my results) I think it was A1.

MrJoeSoap

COYW wrote: »

I would like to see shots blocked in there in some form.

Spot the Rangers fan! I do agree though. PIM's are annoying but challenging also, +/- is my personal annoyance.

Izy

will you be setting it up as a budget draft or just an ordinary snake draft???
i was in two budget drafts and they were a lot better than the ordinary ones, but you definitely have to do a mock draft to get used to it...

MrJoeSoap

Izy wrote: »

will you be setting it up as a budget draft or just an ordinary snake draft???
i was in two budget drafts and they were a lot better than the ordinary ones, but you definitely have to do a mock draft to get used to it...

I tried both last year, and preferred the normal snake draft. But I don't really mind, I'll go with whatever the majority are happy with.

Coeus

Just seen the thread, count me in for sure.

I was grand with all the cats. PIMs was probably my least favourite as my team didn't play dirty enough and I lost the cat most weeks..

If cats are to be added I prefer on the skater side of things. I guess blocked shots, hits and/or shooting % are meaty cats to accumulate stats for scoring. Also maybe add an extra bench spot for carrying an injured/concussed player who aint put on the IR.

As for the league setup more teams is good, upto 16. I'd stick with the snake draft and daily roster changes.

COYW

Coeus wrote: »

I'd stick with the snake draft and daily roster changes.

I think this is the way to go too.

MrJoeSoap

Is everyone still in for this? We may need to get the ball rolling quite quickly, as the league will probably be starting in the next two weeks. The 8 people on this thread who have expressed an interest so far are below, if everyone could re-confirm interest that would make things far easier. I will start to send PM's to some more of the posters on here to see if anyone else has any interest.

MrJoeSoap
smackbunnybaby
malistheman
shefellover93
Izy
alanmcl12
COYW
Coeus

Izy

still up for it

COYW

Count me in.

alanmcl12

Yeah I'm still up for it

Coeus

Yea, I'm still in aswell. Any word yet on when the season might start?

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

Yea, I'm still in aswell. Any word yet on when the season might start?

Any time between the 15th and 19th January. Will either be an unbalanced 50-game season, or a balanced 48-game season (each divisional team x 5, each conference team x 2). No inter-conference matchups.

MrJoeSoap

From Yahoo:

Important: Head-to-Head leagues which draft on Tuesday, Jan 15 or later will miss fantasy Week 1, which runs Tuesday, Jan 15 - Sunday, Jan 20. These leagues will start scoring in the next full fantasy week after their draft.

So the draft will have to be next week, or Monday 14th January. Can people let me know their preferences for the draft? After 11pm any night suits me, or any time after 6pm on Sunday.

Also, what categories are we going with this year? Should we leave it the same or is there enough demand to add/remove some? Personally, I'd like +/- gone, but it doesn't bother me too much if it stays.

MrJoeSoap

I've set up the league and invited some of last seasons players back. If any of the rest of you want an invite please PM me with your e-mail address and I'll arrange it asap. I've set it up with the below settings, almost all are the same as last year but can be changed if needed. I had to enter a date for the draft so I picked next Sunday at 9.30pm, but again this can be changed if necessary.

Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Divisions: No
Playoffs: Week 24 and 25 (4 teams)
Automatic Playoff Reseeding: No
Playoff Seeding Type: Division winners awarded top playoff seeds
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
Max Teams: 12
Draft Time Per Pick: 1 Minute
Max Acquisitions per Season: No maximum
Max Acquisitions per Week: 4
Max Trades per Season: No maximum
Trade End Date: March 21, 2013
Allow Draft Pick Trades: No
Trade Review: League Votes
Trade Reject Time: 2 days
Waiver Mode: Standard
Waiver Time: 2 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List: Yahoo! Sports
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
League Start Week: Week 14 (Jan 15)
Roster Changes: Daily - Today
Minimum Games Played (Goaltenders): 3
Public Access URLs: Enable
Make league publicly viewable: Yes

Positions:

Center (C) 2
Left Winger (LW) 2
Right Winger (RW) 2
Winger (W) 0
Forward (F) 0
Defenseman (D) 4
Utility (Util) 0
Goalie (G) 2
Injured Reserve (IR) 1
Bench (BN) 4

Scoring Categories:

Skaters:

Goals
Assists
Plus/Minus
Penalty Minutes
Powerplay Points
Shorthanded Points
Shots on Goal

Goaltenders:

Wins
Goals Against Average
Save Percentage
Shutouts

Other Potential Categories:

Points
Powerplay Goals
Powerplay Assists
Shorthanded Goals
Shorthanded Assists
Game-Winning Goals
Shooting Percentage
Faceoffs Won
Faceoffs Lost
Hits
Blocks
Games Started (G)
Losses (G)
Goals Against (G)
Shots Against (G)
Saves (G)

GoldFour4

I'm in

MrJoeSoap

malistheman wrote: »

I'm in

Did you get the invite I sent tonight? Or have you a new email address since last year?

GoldFour4

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Did you get the invite I sent tonight? Or have you a new email address since last year?

Just checked there, yeah I got it and rejoined

Shanannigan

I'm in!!! glad to have the hockey back!!

COYW

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

So the draft will have to be next week, or Monday 14th January. Can people let me know their preferences for the draft? After 11pm any night suits me, or any time after 6pm on Sunday.

Wednesday is not a good day for me and 8pm is the earliest I can make it on a Sunday. Other than that, I am fine.

smackbunnybaby

Sunday 9pm onwards would suit me best, but will go with general consensus.
9pm onwards would be preferrred time generally.

Coeus

Okay my team is in. Sunday for draft is fine for me. I can't do the draft on the 18th or 19th but hopefully the season will be started by then...

cena

I can join if ye haven't the numbers.

MrJoeSoap

There are currently 6 teams, with alanmcl12 still to join. We need to have even numbers so I'll send PM's today to the other forum regulars and the remaining players from 2011-2012 who haven't yet signed up.

I think the below are all right?

Board Street Bullies - MrJoeSoap
Henry Le Cheat - Coeus
BeechwoodSnowBadgers - smackbunnybaby
The GAG Line - COYW
Golden Flames - malistheman
izy's penguins - izy

**Edit: 9 PM's sent.

Ping Chow Chi

I'm interested, but you woiuld have to explain the rules to this newb

yeah count me in - I dont understand the draft thingy though

Shanannigan

haven't received a pm yet.. do you have the league ID
/password for the league?

smackbunnybaby

Ping Chow Chi wrote: »

I'm interested, but you woiuld have to explain the rules to this newb

yeah count me in - I dont understand the draft thingy though

My advice would be join up Yahoo and try some mock drafts.

The you'll understand how it works.

smackbunnybaby

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I've set up the league and invited some of last seasons players back. If any of the rest of you want an invite please PM me with your e-mail address and I'll arrange it asap. I've set it up with the below settings, almost all are the same as last year but can be changed if needed. I had to enter a date for the draft so I picked next Sunday at 9.30pm, but again this can be changed if necessary.

Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Divisions: No
Playoffs: Week 24 and 25 (4 teams)
Automatic Playoff Reseeding: No
Playoff Seeding Type: Division winners awarded top playoff seeds
Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes
Max Teams: 12
Draft Time Per Pick: 1 Minute
Max Acquisitions per Season: No maximum
Max Acquisitions per Week: 4
Max Trades per Season: No maximum
Trade End Date: March 21, 2013
Allow Draft Pick Trades: No
Trade Review: League Votes
Trade Reject Time: 2 days
Waiver Mode: Standard
Waiver Time: 2 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List: Yahoo! Sports
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
League Start Week: Week 14 (Jan 15)
Roster Changes: Daily - Today
Minimum Games Played (Goaltenders): 3
Public Access URLs: Enable
Make league publicly viewable: Yes

Positions:

Center (C) 2
Left Winger (LW) 2
Right Winger (RW) 2
Winger (W) 0
Forward (F) 0
Defenseman (D) 4
Utility (Util) 0
Goalie (G) 2
Injured Reserve (IR) 1
Bench (BN) 4

Scoring Categories:

Skaters:

Goals
Assists
Plus/Minus
Penalty Minutes
Powerplay Points
Shorthanded Points
Shots on Goal

Goaltenders:

Wins
Goals Against Average
Save Percentage
Shutouts

Other Potential Categories:

Points
Powerplay Goals
Powerplay Assists
Shorthanded Goals
Shorthanded Assists
Game-Winning Goals
Shooting Percentage
Faceoffs Won
Faceoffs Lost
Hits
Blocks
Games Started (G)
Losses (G)
Goals Against (G)
Shots Against (G)
Saves (G)

Anyone up for adding something to the defensive side like Blocks?

MrJoeSoap

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Anyone up for adding something to the defensive side like Blocks?

I'd be up for that. COYW would be too, I'd imagine. Anyone against it?

Also, since there are only 10 gameweeks this season before the Fantasy Playoffs start, does anyone think that the Head-to-Head probably isn't the best way to go about it? The way it is at the moment, I play each team once but also play three teams twice, not very balanced.

Maybe a Rotisserie league would be better?

Shanannigan wrote: »

haven't received a pm yet.. do you have the league ID
/password for the league?

Will PM you shortly. The teams from last season should have received e-mails to the address registered last year.

COYW

Ping Chow Chi wrote: »

I'm interested, but you woiuld have to explain the rules to this newb

yeah count me in - I dont understand the draft thingy though

The draft is simple once you see it in action. If you log into the link at which you created your team, you will be able to take part in a mock draft. You can find the option named 'Mock Drafts' on the 'Draft Central' menu. On loading the 'Mock Drafts' screen, click on the 'Quick Start' button for the standard drafts.

Example draft:

Lets say MrJoeSoap, me, you and smackbunnybaby are in a league on our own and are going to do a draft. We each get assigned a seed, 1-4, randomly. Let's say it works out as :

1. MrJoeSoap
2. COYW
3. Ping Chow Chi
4. smackbunnybaby

So, in round one of the draft, MrJoeSoap gets first pick of a player from all the players in all the teams in the NHL for his squad. I get second, you third and so on. In round two, smackbunnybaby (the last seed) gets first pick, Ping Chow Chi second, i'm third and so on. The draft continues in this pattern until our squads are full.

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Anyone up for adding something to the defensive side like Blocks?

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I'd be up for that. COYW would be too, I'd imagine. Anyone against it?

Great call, smackbunnybaby, I think blocks would be a great addition. They can be as good as a goal in some cases.

Izy

Head to head won't work this year, go with the other one... Blocks are cool with me too

tolosenc

How are we going to determine draft order? And can we trade picks?

MrJoeSoap

tolosenc wrote: »

How are we going to determine draft order? And can we trade picks?

Draft order is random, assigned by Yahoo. No trading of picks.

MrJoeSoap

Ok the league is now a Rotisserie league (explained here), and Blocks are now a scoring category.

The 8 teams in the league are:

Board Street Bullies - MrJoeSoap
Henry Le Cheat - Coeus
BeechwoodSnowBadgers - smackbunnybaby
The GAG Line - COYW
Golden Flames - malistheman
izy's penguins - izy
Do you lift? - ?
Bettman's Angels - ?

Anyone else looking for invites or instructions on how to join, please let me know via PM.

tolosenc

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Bettman's Angels - ?

That'd be me.

smackbunnybaby

Do we need do reach out for more players to make it competitive? Might be some alds in the Fantasy NFL/MLB who might give it a whirl.
Short enough season too!

MrJoeSoap

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Do we need do reach out for more players to make it competitive? Might be some alds in the Fantasy NFL/MLB who might give it a whirl.
Short enough season too!

As far as I know there are still two more to join (Shanannigan and Ping Chow Chi) which would bring us into double figures. I thought that 12 was a good number last season, but it'd be great if everyone who was in the league was active in it and didn't let it slide after a week or two.

Masked Man

If your stuck for numbers I'd be interested. I'm not a Hockey regular but I've been active in 6 different fantasy leagues on boards. Don't feel under pressure to add numbers for me though.

MrJoeSoap

Masked Man wrote: »

If your stuck for numbers I'd be interested. I'm not a Hockey regular but I've been active in 6 different fantasy leagues on boards. Don't feel under pressure to add numbers for me though.

Thanks, I'll get in touch if we need a number. Are you ok for a Sunday night draft?

Masked Man

Yeah that would be fine.

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

As far as I know there are still two more to join (Shanannigan and Ping Chow Chi) which would bring us into double figures. I thought that 12 was a good number last season, but it'd be great if everyone who was in the league was active in it and didn't let it slide after a week or two.

I agree 12 is good! We could go as far as 16 as we do for the boards fantasy football leagues and the fantasy baseball league last year. Of course it would be challenging then

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

I agree 12 is good! We could go as far as 16 as we do for the boards fantasy football leagues and the fantasy baseball league last year. Of course it would be challenging then

The biggest challenge would be to find that many people interested and get everyone on board before the season starts!

Winning is the easy part.