*I've only ever used Yahoo for fantasy leagues but does anybody else find the pre-draft rankings interface a little user un-friendly? At any one time you can only ever see like 20 of your ranked players.
I kind of hate Yahoo in somerespects, including the draft ranking system. I really enjoy ESPN's user interface, maybe they'll be more interest next season in an ESPN league.
@Piqued, what do you mean? Did someone ask a question that got deleted?
Sorry for the length and depth picks at the end there guys, I should have dropped some roster spots when we went up to 14. Made it interesting at least.
12 out of 14 attended. Maybe even 13? Great stuff.
Here are this year's Ranchers:
Kovalchuk-Berglund-Eriksson
vanRiemsdyk-Seguin-Okposo
E. Kane-Brassard-Frolik
Booth-Stepan-Simmonds
Fiddler-Backlund-Dalpe
Green-Boyle
Myers-Enstrom
Lundqvist
Crawford
Decided to go with a heavy imbalance in numbers toward forwards with position versatility while taking D and G early. We'll see how it goes. Good luck everyone.
Zack Parise - Mike Richards - Patrick Kane
Brenden Morrow - Paul Stastny - Nathan Horton
Simon Gagne - Jason Spezza - Jakub Voracek
Ryan Smyth - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Fabian Brunnstrom
Matt Calvert, Sean Couturier
Cam Fowler - Dmitri Kulikov
Stephane Robidas - John Carlson
Jimmy Howard
Steve Mason
Evgeni Nabokov
Oh yes.
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If you're telekinetic and you know it, clap my hands!
So my team is probably the least conventional, I think they have the ability to surprise
I plan to dominate Hits, PIM's,and Faceoffs while getting enough point production at ES, PP, and SH from my forward heavy lineup to carry me through the league.
My downfall will likely be the goaltenders, but I hope to steal categories like save percentage and gaa often enough that it won't be too much of an anchor. Time will tell
Michael Cammalleri - Evgeni Malkin - Martin Havlat
Milan Lucic - Sidney Crosby - Michael Ryder
Scott Hartnell - Andy McDonald - Troy Brouwer
Peter Mueller - Nik Antropov - Rich Peverley
Steve Ott
Dustin Byfuglien - Chris Pronger
Travis Hamonic - Victor Hedman
Sheldon Souray - Ian White
Carey Price
Kari Lehtonen
that's right... Sid the Kid is my SECOND line center...
Sharp-Stamkos-Selanne
T. Ruutu-Couture-Grabner
Leino-S.Koivu-Eberle
-------Nielsen-D. Jones
-------Boyle
-------Belanger
-------Konopka
Weber-Lidstrom
Burns-Wiznasty
Babchuk
Thomas
Reimer
Yes, I took Stamkos #1 overall. I think this is his breakout year. After some decent top end guys scoring-wise I made sure to load up on faceoffs, hits, and guys who were good PP players relative to who was left. I'm really counting on Selanne having another great year, especially on the PP. I'm also counting on the pair of of Islanders will continue to pop some shorthanded goals.
What do you think?? This is my first time drafting for hits, PIM, FO and other non-point stats so I'm not sure how that'll go, I guess we'll see...... I do have solid goalies at least
1. (4) Daniel Sedin LW
2. (25) Henrik Zetterberg C,LW
3. (32) Claude Giroux C,RW
4. (53) Rick Nash LW,RW
5. (60) Dwayne Roloson G
6. (81) Jaroslav Halak G
7. (88) Johan Franzen LW,RW
8. (109) Andrei Markov D
9. (116) Alexander Edler D
10. (137) Patrice Bergeron C
11. (144) Jason Pominville RW
12. (165) Matt Moulson LW
13. (172) Marek Zidlicky D
14. (193) Ray Whitney LW
15. (200) Kimmo Timonen D
16. (221) Teddy Purcell RW
17. (228) Joni Pitkanen D
18. (249) Chris Neil RW
19. (256) Artem Anisimov C
20. (277) Brayden Schenn C
21. (284) Manny Malhotra C
Not happy with how my goalies turned out, the early run of the table really screwed me. I'll probably end up grabbing the first hot goalie that inevitably shows up every year.
Really happy that my first 4 picks were all dual eligibility.
I'll probably lose Hits every week, as Ott, Calahan, and Boyle were sniped on me just before I was going to take them. I can address that midseason though.
After some decent top end guys scoring-wise I made sure to load up on faceoffs, hits, and guys who were good PP players relative to who was left. I'm really counting on Selanne having another great year, especially on the PP. I'm also counting on the pair of of Islanders will continue to pop some shorthanded goals.
