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Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comJan 16, 2024, 01:00 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.
If you are feeling the January lull and just want to set and forget your fantasy NHL roster, this is the column for you.
Not that such a process is encouraged in this space; but I get it. Sometimes you don’t have it in you to min-max every week in a long season — especially when you get kicked around here and there. In one such league, I sit third in overall fantasy points, more than 200 points ahead of some teams. But that doesn’t matter as they have a better head-to-head record than my rotten 4-10-0 in last place. To make matters worse, I wanted to set and forget the roster this week, and I decided that Mark Stone could ride the bench. Who knew he never had a regular season hat-trick until Monday night?
But whether you are among the silent legions who don’t always start each day with box scores and fantasy hockey reading, or just want a roster spot or two that you can lean on longer-term, this breakdown looks at some consistency from players this season.
If you don’t count days the NHL had the day off, we’ve had 93 days of hockey so far. If we split the season up into approximate thirds to date, we get Oct. 10 to Nov. 9 as the first third, Nov. 10 to Dec. 13 as the second third and Dec. 14 to Jan. 15 as the final third. So let’s see which players were in the top 150 for a given stat in all three thirds and might be available in your league.
To drive home the exercise: Below is a list of players in individual stat categories who managed to be among the top 150 in the NHL for that stat in all three segments of the season to date. As further qualifiers, they can’t be rostered in much more than 80% of ESPN leagues (no point in highlighting them if they aren’t available) and they must have a minimum of 1.7 fantasy points per game overall this season (no…
Source link : https://www.espn.com/fantasy/hockey/story/_/id/39322058/fantasy-hockey-set-forget-stars-lineups-pickups-categories
Author : Sean Allen
Publish date : 2024-01-16 18:24:19
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