RISK: NHL EDITION (A FHL brought to you by BSH)

I’d suggest 25 players (for rounding, even purposes), meaning two bench spots. Other than that, I like the 3, 3, 3, 3, 6, 5 format.

As far as caps go, whatever. Sounds good to me, I have no qualms, yada yada yada. I’d suggest a minimum games played, unless we’re all fairly confident the 6 of us will at least check our teams occasionally. I don’t want any teams with 5 guys injured in the lineup. I don’t think this will be a problem, but just in case New Zealand sinks into the ocean, this might be a good idea.

I’ll do my rankings sometime soon, no worries. Good call on drafting the goalies first. Did we agree that you must have one goalie from each team? Is anybody going to skirt the rules and draft Nik Khabibulin, DOC #301-34-879?

Reading this, I realize what a real fantasy league noob I am… whateverrr :D So basically I’m only guessing what you guys are talking about so I won’t complain about anything…

How about them Devils? You get Kovalchuk? Who has Atlantic Division? :D

when we said min. 3 players from each team, does it include or exclude the goalies?

Exactly why I set this bad boy up…
25 player roster is good with me.
Not sure we need a minimum, as 95% of roster is starting, i was thinking more of a max, so no one is accumulating additional points/games, by switching out bench or waiver players. plus it alleviates having to adjust rosters more than 1 or 2 times a week.
What are the thoughts on setting the league to be H2H?

So I’m trying to finalize my roster… damn, never thought that choosing 3 players from Thrashers and Hurricanes would be that hard. Haha… anyway… can I have 2 forwards on the bench? Pweaseee! (puppy dog eyes)

Hey, thanks for making this thread. Coming to BSH isn’t a problem, since my internship doesn’t block it (if they do… man oh man will I not be happy), just fantasy sports is blocked, so I can’t do much with the league.

My internet will be solved next week as I’m switching providers. This weekend I’ll be away with internet so I can manage the league. If all of us have our rankings set before Monday I can switch it to ready before then.

For the game caps, I can’t check now but I looked through the commish tools and couldn’t see any of those settings, so I think those are post-draft, but I’ll change it when I can. I like your number for the goalies, but for all the skaters, I think just giving each position the standard 82 game cap will work. That will prevent any “abuse” with people adding and dropping to get more games, but will also allow us to get a full season from each position. I don’t think scrambling to fill the games will be a problem since we’ll have bench players and not all players play the same night, I think that will work out great.

So I guess when I get to set the league up I’ll change it to the 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 3F, 6D, and I guess 2 bench (but we can add to that if everybody else agrees).

Also for the scoring, I think it should be either points or rotisserie. I don’t like head to head for hockey as games are sporatic, so you may have a team who may only have one game in a week, and your opponent may have 4, and they’ll win just beause they played more games. It doesn’t really even itself out at the end of the season in my eyes. H2H works great for football and baseball though.

Points and rotisserie will. I say everybody but myself vote either points or rotisserie (I won’t vote so there’s an odd number and no ties). Right now it’s at points but easily changed. We can still have playoffs in a points league (not sure about rotisserie).

Finally finished my ratings… it gave me headaches… hope I didn’t make any mistake… o_o

Which league is this?

My issue is the Damn Ducks need to quit Quacking Off and sign Ryan already!

I put Nicklas Bäckström on the bench. I guess he wouldn’t like that… would he?

OK, My rankings are ready…you may fire when ready grizzly!

Ok, I guess all we need is Travis and myself. I am doing mine now as I speak and should be finished soon.

Once Travis gives me the go I’ll set it to ready so we can get it sooner than Monday!

I’m probably going to have a tough time to pick 3 Islanders. I was worried about the Devils before Kovy got approved.

Dude, really cool idea. Is there any way I could follow this league during the year? (Silly question, I know – I know very little about fantasy sports.)

Hey all,

I forgot to post yesterday that I got all of my pre-draft rankings are all done.

Travis, are you finished with your rankings yet? If so I can set the draft status to “ready” whenever that happens and hopefully they’ll draft the league fast and we can make our edits.

Once the league is drafted I’ll see how the game caps work and apply those.

Sorry I wasn’t able to set the draft status to “ready” last night like I said I would, but that gave us another day to fix any rankings we have.

I am going to set the draft status to ready right now, so hopefully soon it’ll draft our players. If there are any problems with the draft we can easily fix it.

Drafted!

Issues:

Katchis must drop: Kesler, Burrows, Elias, Zajac, Duchene, and Raymond.

Travis’ team is a clusterF of a guy who didn’t rank his players.

Todd must drop: Staal, Backstrom, and Niittymaki.

Stevo must drop: Stewart, Roy, Penner, and Morrow.

Fezzy gets two-thums up.

Ok, I fixed it all.

I just dropped all of the players that we need that are on Travis’s team. They are all available for us to grab and add on.

Travis, you can just add all of your players to your team from the FA pool, or if you want me to add them just put a list and I can do it, whatever you want.

If anybody needs any changes done I can do them, the commish tools get around those minimum player requirements if it’s just faster for that.

Finally have my roster as I originally planned it. Hope it meets all the rules.

Wow, somehow I got the draft right…DESPITE the fact that I just found Drew Doughty and Dustin Brown in the FA Pool…That Blasted Travis…guess I better see who else I am missing, and I guess the fact that I ranked 32 players instead of 25 worked out…lol…

just funny all my players were from my teams, and im looking and wondering why 3 kings were so hard to put together, then im reading about all the players and just for S&G went to the FA pool and there were Doughty and Brown…I already picked them up so its all good…LOL!

Hi All:

I just wanted to figure out two things for the league.

1) I figured out the game cap system (finally!). I can pretty much only cap each position (I can’t separate Skaters and Goalies). So how many are we thinking for each position? I was thinking just make it the standard 82 since everybody will play 82 games, and we’ll end up with a lot of extra goalie games. If there’s a better idea let me know.

2) Scoring.

I can still change the scoring type. Points or Rotisserie? I want everybody to vote for which one they want and whichever has the most we’ll go with that. After we get that settled we’ll have to figure out stats (and point modifiers if it’ll be points), so once we decide what type of scoring we can change what stats we do.

So sorry, really haven’t had a chance to peek in here yet.

My team should be set. Let me know if I f’d anything up any further.

You’re such a commissioner :P

Ok, I am home now and changed the league to Rotisserie.

For the stat categories, here’s what we have to choose from:

Skaters:

Goals, Assists, Points, Plus/Minus, PIM, PP Goals, PP Assists, PP Points, SH Goals, SH Assists, SH Points, GW Goals, Shots on Goal, Shooting Percentage, FO Won, FO lost, Hits, Blocks

Goalies:

Games Started, Wins, Losses, Goals Against, Goals Against Average, Shots Against, Saves, Save Percentage, Shutouts

That’s all for stats. Let me know what you think we should have. I think what Fezzlekway said:

I suggest for the skaters: Goals, Assists, +/-, PIM, PPPoints, SHPoints, GWGoals, FOWon, FOLost, Hits (I guess you could do Blocks, but i dont think it would benifits MOST of the Rosters, I dont think anyone is drafting ‘Lappy-Like’ players…LOL)

I would suggest for the Goalies: Wins, Losses, GAA, Saves, Save %, Shutouts

Would be a good place to start.

I would add Shooting Percentage and Blocks to the skaters, and for Goalies i think it’s fine as it is.