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Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comJan 2, 2024, 02:00 PM ET
CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard.
The NHL standings and other basic ways to sorting NHL franchises aren’t quite as reflective of the fantasy realm as we need them to be.
They are at the bottom of the standings, so does that mean the San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks and Ottawa Senators are the best targets when choosing a free agent to stream against or deciding how to compose your lineup on a busy night? Should you avoid facing the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins because they are on top of the standings? What about the mushy middle?
A better assessment is to look at the actual fantasy points generated by opponents. I’ve been using fantasy points against per game (FPAPG) this season, but I want to break it down a step further. Rather than look at the grand total of fantasy points given up by each team and even rather than looking at the FPAPG by position, what if we broke it all the way down to top-six forwards or top defense pairing? That would give us a more focused look at how to target opposing teams with free-agent acquisitions.
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Top-six forwards
For this FPAPG, we’ve taken the top six forwards for each team in every game played by ice time. This means the six forwards selected for each team can vary by game depending on deployment. The idea being that the top six forwards in ice time each game should give a solid representation of a team’s offensive focus, but it won’t be perfect. An alternative would be to take the top six forwards by fantasy points scored, but that distribution ends up much less focused, so I prefer the ice time method.
So you can have a sense of how the forwards are distributed, here’s an…
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Author : Sean Allen
Publish date : 2024-01-02 19:05:24
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