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On another note, I am setting up a league on yahoo. Anyone interested? Its not for money, just for fun. There will be a live draft on Wednesday, Sept 30th and 7pm.

Its a 10 person team league, head to head. PM me if you want to play and I will send you the league info.

9/21/2009 11:23:47 AM

make it for money and im down

100 bucks a head

9/21/2009 11:28:30 AM

nah too hard to keep up with over the internets

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM. Reason : lol $100]

9/21/2009 11:43:33 AM

pussy

9/21/2009 11:44:45 AM

i can't do a live draft, and i'm more comfortable with rotisserie scoring. but i'll post in here with questions and shit.

9/21/2009 12:34:13 PM

I'd be interested. I've never played fantasy hockey and I don't exactly live in a hockey hotbed where I can find others to play with, so I'll settle for good 'ol Tee-Dub.

9/21/2009 12:39:52 PM

so do you want to play in the league?

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 12:51 PM. Reason : also, if you dont want to do the live draft, Yahoo will autopick for you]

I didn't do rotisserie scoring because it tends to separate the 4 best teams from the rest of the league. Its not as competitive as head to head.

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM. Reason : .]

9/21/2009 12:51:31 PM

I will play

9/21/2009 1:01:53 PM

PM sent

9/21/2009 1:10:29 PM

fair enough.

9/21/2009 1:15:43 PM

so you want to play?

9/21/2009 1:18:46 PM

let me think on it. i'm already in a public league and fantasy soccer league, so 3 might be hard to manage.

9/21/2009 1:28:55 PM

tell me about it

I'm in 3 FF leagues and now 1 hockey league.

9/21/2009 1:29:27 PM

bump

9/21/2009 4:34:49 PM

i might be down...i've pretty much done every other kind of fantasy league on yahoo...i dont know shit about the majority of the players in the league but i figure i can auto draft and challenge myself to learn something

9/21/2009 4:38:31 PM

its pretty straight forward. I'll send you a PM

9/21/2009 4:48:51 PM

9/22/2009 10:22:35 AM

hahahahaha

9/22/2009 10:35:30 AM

lol

9/22/2009 10:41:52 AM

I had to change the draft time to Thursday (Oct 1st), 7pm in order for people to have enough time to sign up.

[Edited on September 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM. Reason : and the league begins in week 2]

is everyone ok with that?

[Edited on September 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM. Reason : .]

9/22/2009 12:53:56 PM

ok final correction

we now have 8 people playing so we can actually start in week 1

draft has been moved to Sunday at 7:30pm. Please let me know if this doesn't work.

9/22/2009 2:17:24 PM

my auto draft team from my other league...

C Derek Roy (Buf)
C Anze Kopitar (LA)
LW Patrick Marleau (SJ)
LW David Booth (Fla)
RW Corey Perry (Anh)
RW Alexander Semin (Was)
D Zdeno Chara (Bos)
D Shea Weber (Nsh)
D Brian Campbell (Chi)
D Cam Barker (Chi)
BN Alex Burrows (Van - LW)
BN Scott Gomez (Mon - C)
BN Daniel Cleary (Det - RW)
BN --empty--

G Semyon Varlamov (Was)
G Kari Lehtonen (Atl)
BN Martin Biron (NYI - G)

my overall verdict... meh. my goaltending really needs some work. i'm pretty pleased with my defenders overall. forwards are OK, but not WOW great.

9/24/2009 3:31:00 PM

yeah your goaltending definitely needs work. I would try to use one of your wingers in a trade, you have some depth there.

[Edited on September 24, 2009 at 3:57 PM. Reason : .]


Also, we have 9 spots filled out of 10 in the fantasy league

one spot still left

PM me if you would like to get in

[Edited on September 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM. Reason : .]

9/24/2009 3:57:43 PM

i need to join a league, PM me if you have room

9/24/2009 4:25:59 PM

^^ Ditch Marleau for any solid second-tier guy who will get starts and wins.

9/24/2009 4:26:25 PM

agreed.


update: the fantasy league should be full now as long as the last 2 people that PMed me sign up. I will update the thread if someone doesn't sign up by Friday.

9/24/2009 4:28:58 PM

Which position usually earns you the most points - Goalie, Forward, Defenseman.

9/24/2009 4:39:39 PM

forward

9/24/2009 4:39:58 PM

my weakness the past few years is in goal though. i feel i can manage the forwards better to get points (in rotisserie scoring anyway) but my goalie stats are always lacking.

i'm more tempted to get rid of Cleary than Marleau though.

[Edited on September 24, 2009 at 4:50 PM. Reason : k]

9/24/2009 4:42:24 PM

either would work in a trade for a backup keeper

9/24/2009 4:56:28 PM

I like the automatic draft we had last year. I lucked out with Crosby and a few good players on defense. I picked up Marleau on waivers and he took off. Twas quite exciting. And oh yeah Steve Mason I must thank for winning me goalie categories when I couldn't win any at the beginning of the year (Biron )

Hopefully same result happens this year as I took it all on an awesome last few weeks of the year!

9/24/2009 9:39:58 PM

did you get in the league?

9/25/2009 10:44:58 AM

we are still at 9 teams

9/25/2009 11:22:58 AM

IS250tim should be the 10th person to sign up.

9/25/2009 11:28:21 AM

IS250tim or somebody still needs to sign up for the last spot, by 7:30 tonight

9/27/2009 2:49:48 AM

yes we still have a spot open, please sign up

9/27/2009 1:10:10 PM

i saw some guy with a VOLCOM hat on at the game yesterday in the SEZ

was that you

9/27/2009 1:13:33 PM

i wish i hadn't signed up for my other league. i'd definitely take that last spot.

9/27/2009 1:16:30 PM

lol no it wasn't me

9/27/2009 1:58:28 PM

I love my team but this is my first fantasy hockey league. I ended up dropping Ryder for Stastny. Stastny has a shit ton of potential if he can stay healthy. Took over the #1 center spot in Colorado.

I need a RW now though. Any LW is on the block including Sedin, Whitney and Ryan Smyth.

My D is stacked. Getting Gonchar in the 12th round was nice.

1. (2) Evgeni Malkin C
2. (19) Daniel Sedin LW
3. (22) Martin Brodeur G
4. (39) Dan Boyle D
5. (42) Zdeno Chara D
6. (59) Ray Whitney LW
7. (62) Bobby Ryan RW
8. (79) Ryan Smyth LW
9. (82) Kristian Huselius LW
10. (99) Travis Zajac C
11. (102) Alex Burrows LW
12. (119) Sergei Gonchar D
13. (122) Marek Zidlicky D
14. (139) Kimmo Timonen D
15. (142) Pekka Rinne G
16. (159) Michael Ryder RW
17. (162) Danny Briere C

9/27/2009 8:37:20 PM

I just had my first draft of the year.

12 team league.

C - Pavel Datsyuk
C - Vincent Lecavalier
LW - Dany Heatley
LW - Alex Tanguay
RW - Teemu Selanne
RW - Blake Wheeler
D - Nicklas Lidstrom
D - Chris Pronger
D - Cam Barker
D - Tomas Kaberle
Util - Mikko Koivu
Util - Patrick O'Sullivan
G - Steve Mason
G - Jonas Hiller

BN - Semyon Varlamov
BN - Bryan Little
BN - Brent Burns
BN - Brandon Dubinsky
BN - Pierre-Marc Bouchard
BN - Jakub Voracek

[Edited on September 27, 2009 at 10:17 PM. Reason : dropped Duchene for Dubinsky]

9/27/2009 10:11:17 PM

Looking at those teams reminds me of why I'm terrible at fantasy hockey...I think of building a hockey team, not an all-star team, and I can't get my head around the latter.

*sigh*

9/27/2009 10:14:53 PM

Coach Emilio Estevez
1. (1) Alexander Ovechkin
2. (20) Patrick Kane
3. (21) Vincent Lecavalier
4. (40) Tim Thomas
5. (41) Johan Franzen
6. (60) Nicklas Lidstrom
7. (61) Daniel Alfredsson
8. (80) Jay Bouwmeester
9. (81) Brian Rafalski
10. (100) John Tavares
11. (101) Mike Ribeiro
12. (120) Ales Hemsky
13. (121) Brenden Morrow
14. (140) Ilya Bryzgalov
15. (141) Shawn Horcoff
16. (160) Jonathan Cheechoo
17. (161) David Clarkson

no idea...all i know is Ovechkin is the man, Kane beat some cab driver's ass but is still on the cover of one of the hockey video games, and Thomas had the best percentage of saves?

[Edited on September 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM. Reason : .]

9/28/2009 11:22:59 AM

I would consider that to be a pretty nasty team except you only have 3 defensemen, and you should get another goalie as well.

9/28/2009 11:25:48 AM

i need a 3rd goalie?

[Edited on September 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM. Reason : Bryzgalov]

9/28/2009 11:29:11 AM

I always like to have at least 3, but I guess you can get by with 2 as long as they both are playing consistently (those two should).

This all depends on the roster format for the league as well.

9/28/2009 11:41:29 AM

is there any reason why the three biggest hockey people on here's names all start with V

9/28/2009 11:43:40 AM

^^yeah we only start one goalie per day

9/28/2009 11:44:21 AM

I think I could have done a lot worse than this bunch. It was my first time with the live draft, I've always just done casual autopick leagues in the past.

C Henrik Zetterberg
C Travis Zajac
LW Ilya Kovalchuk
LW Alexander Frolov
RW Martin St. Louis
RW Daniel Alfredsson
D Zdeno Chara
D Brian Rafalski
D Dennis Wideman
D Sergei Gonchar
Util Nathan Horton
Util Alexei Ponikarovsky
BN Milan Hejduk
BN David Clarkson
BN Ryan Suter
BN Steve Ott
BN Cory Stillman
BN Saku Koivu
G Cristobal Huet
G Mike Smith

9/28/2009 11:45:32 AM

Yahoo's rankings are pretty hilarious. I was pissed that you grabbed Gonchar, but I shouldn't have waited so long.

9/28/2009 12:10:48 PM