PensBurgh Fantasy Hockey (H2H)

I was hoping it’d be Yahoo, but I do appreciate the effort. I’ll give ESPN a try.

looks good, Shade!

don’t like +/-, as you’ve seen from the 2011 Stanley Cup League
and SHGs as a whole cat is a little random. like STGs a lot better.
lastly, 8 acquisitions per week leaves you open a bit to cycling…not too bad, but in a shallow league it could become a regular strategy

We’re just getting some people in to test the waters first. I didn’t go crazy with the league settings yet, I wanted to seek other people’s opinions first.

I agree with your acquisitions per week statement, I’m glad they added that feature this year. The reason I left it at 8 is because for the past two years in a row I’ve had times during the season where I’ve had 5-6 guys on IR or O or DTD on my roster and sometimes that results in shuffling things up. And sometimes when people make an acquisition- they drop a player and then add a player and it counts as two acquisitions (as opposed to dropping and adding all in one acquisition)- and I wouldn’t want to punish someone who didn’t quite know what he was doing when he was wasting acquisitions by doing a drop add in two steps instead of one step. So I left it at 8 to not punish new people for unefficient acquisitions and to keep injuries in check. But it could certainly be dropped to 4.

I think the limit of 32 forward starts per week is enough to keep the cycling to a minimum. If you have a good team, you don’t need to cycle :)

We can debat categories if you want :) I just put up the bare bones. I feel that PPP are better than SPG for a good reason. SPG focuses on only goals. PPP focuses on Goals and Assits. There could have been 2 or 3 amazing passes before the goal scorere taps it into the net. And STG’s only counts the goal scorere and not the passers. There are so many big playmakers who are very skilled working hard on the Powerplay who only get Powerplay assists who would be losing value if you don’t count those powerplay assists. Examples of those guys are Brad Richards, Nick Bactstrom, Joe Thornton, Paul Stastny, Mike Richards, Duncan Keith, Drew Doughty, any playmaking Defenseman out there. SHGs are like shutouts, some players do get them each year on a regular basis. I don’t mean to rant, I’m just backing up my decision making :)

+/- isn’t the greatest stat cat, but I’m not a fan of SOG, and DEF points are a little repetative and too one dimensional… Real Defenseman in the NHL do a lot more than just score points- so why focus on that? So I figured just leave +/- in for simplicity.

makes sense.
i didn’t realize that add/drop counted as 2 “acquisitions.”

what about adding one IR spot?

i hear you on debating scoring cats.
everyone has their favorite combos.

you’ve chosen a combo that credits goals and assists EQUALLY.
i like when goals count for something a little > than assists.

generally speaking, the guy that gives you 25g, 25a (50 points) is a heckuva lot more valuable than the guy that gives you 12g, 38a (50 points).

Diomedes7,

I set matchup game played limits by position to 32 for forwards, 16 for defenseman, and 4 for utility. That along with 5 max acquisitions per matchup. Even if someone cycles forwards, they freeze when they go over the 32 forwards limit(which is achievable by a non-cycling team anyways.

Does that seem reasonable to you? With our roster size, I think this is cycle-proof enough. But if the belt needs tightened there’s still some wiggle space.