Fantasy Hockey: The Favorites vs The Best

Since I don’t want to talk about my real team today, I want to talk about  my Fantasy Hockey team experiment. It doesn’t matter how busy you are with your job, spouse, children, friends, sport team, family and everything else, you must play fantasy hockey. I suppose there are more places to play, but I signed up for two teams – one on Yahoo and one on ESPN. I’ve usually only used Yahoo, so ESPN’s fantasy hockey is new to me. It’s fine. Same as the other except for one small stat they do not have that really bothers me. Yahoo has the % started and ESPN doesn’t. You would think that was not a big deal but apparently it is since I am bugged by it.

I have two teams. One with my favorite players that has NO DUCKS, WINGS OR CANUCKS anywhere to be seen on my team. The other one has the best players I could get.  Here is my lineup:

Yahoo Team:

				Rosters	Offense
Pos	Edit	Forwards/Defensemen	Opp	Status	% Started	G	A	+/-	PPG	GWG	SOG	SH%	FW	HIT	BLK
C		Anze Kopitar (LA – C)			84%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
C		Logan Couture (SJ – C,LW)			60%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
C		Brooks Laich (Was – C,LW)			17%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LW		Brad Marchand (Bos – C,LW)			47%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LW		Steve Downie (TB – LW,RW)			18%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
LW		Rene Bourque (Cgy – LW,RW)	@Chi	4:00 pm	35%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
RW		Dustin Brown (LA – LW,RW)			59%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
RW		Drew Stafford (Buf – RW)			28%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
RW		Jeff Skinner (Car – C,RW)DTD	@Fla	1st Intermission, 1-1	66%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Shea Weber (Nsh – D)			96%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Alex Goligoski (Dal – D)			40%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Matt Carle (Phi – D)			39%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Jason Demers (SJ – D)			3%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Marc-Edouard Vlasic (SJ – D)			18%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
D		Steve Montador (Chi – D)	Cgy	4:00 pm	11%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BN		Chris Kunitz (Pit – LW)			29%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BN		Nathan Horton (Bos – RW)			42%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BN		Ryan Suter (Nsh – D)			86%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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					Rosters	Goaltending
Pos	Edit	Goaltenders	Opp	Status	% Started	W	GAA	SV	SA*	SV%	SHO
G		Carey Price (Mon – G)			81%	-	-	-	-	-	-
G		Jhonas Enroth (Buf – G)			9%	-	-	-	-	-	-

SKATERS				DEC 18			DEC 18 SKATING											RESEARCH
SLOT	PLAYER, TEAM POS	ACTION		OPP	STATUS ET		GP	G	A	+/-	FOW	SOG	HIT	BLK	PPP	SHP		PR15	%OWN	+/-
F	Justin Williams, LA RW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		-1.02	50.5	-9.3
F	Derek Stepan, NYR C						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		9.64	70.2	+27.8
C	Matt Duchene, Col C, LW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		1.91	100.0	+0
C	Patrice Bergeron, Bos C						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		11.23	100.0	+0
LW	Taylor Hall, Edm LW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		0.14	100.0	+2.8
LW	Brad Marchand, Bos C, LW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		3.25	100.0	+0
RW	Patrick Sharp, Chi LW, RW			Cgy	7:00 PM		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		12.48	100.0	+0
RW	Dustin Brown, LA RW, LW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		2.66	100.0	+0
D	Drew Doughty, LA D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		0.96	100.0	+0
D	Niklas Kronwall, Det D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		3.42	100.0	+0
D	Brian Campbell, Fla D			Car	1-1 15:59 2nd		1	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0		2.63	100.0	+0
D	Roman Hamrlik, Wsh D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		-4.07	26.4	-1.2
D	Dennis Seidenberg, Bos D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		2.59	92.2	-0.7
D	Dan Hamhuis, Van D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		1.78	100.0	+0
				TOTALS			1	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bench	Zdeno Chara, Bos D						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		4.50	100.0	+0
Bench	Claude Giroux*, Phi RW, C  O						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		6.42	100.0	+0
Bench	Nathan Horton, Bos RW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		0.79	100.0	+0
Bench	Wayne Simmonds, Phi RW						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		7.51	36.1	+12.3
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GOALIES				DEC 18			DEC 18 GOALTENDING									RESEARCH
SLOT	PLAYER, TEAM POS	ACTION		OPP	STATUS ET		GS	W	GA	SV	SO	MIN	GAA	SV%		PR15	%OWN	+/-
G	Jonathan Quick, LA G						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		-9.29	100.0	+0
G	Antti Niemi, SJ G						–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		7.90	100.0	+0