Mortal Kombat Draft of Death After Party, Week 1
Can I talk my shit again?
Last year’s hockey draft was enjoyable, or fun for the first half of the year. It’s not that I bowed out or didn’t want to see it through, but not having internet access at home is a killer. The net here is a chore. You have to shower, get dressed, and go to the nearest net café or the nearest wi-fi spot. As oppose to where my combatants live right now, they can surf it on their underwear. But the heck, let’s have another crack at it. Battle commence. Mortal Kombat Draft of Death: The Sequel.
I didn’t bother doing a running diary of our draft but let’s go through a quick dissection of my team and draft strategy:
* I got the third pick. I didn’t want to have the third pick. If I didn’t get the first pick, otherwise known as the automatic Alexander Ovechkin pick. I would’ve rather picked later in the rounds to get a high second round pick, just because the first round talent is such a crapshoot.
* So I don’t want to reiterate this year after year: goalies are the be all and end all of fantasy hockey. Just look at the numbers. In our league, there are seven cats for skaters, good for 84 out of 144 points. There are five cats exclusively for goalies, 60 out of 144 points. 19 skaters are responsible for 84 points. 3 goalies are responsible for the 60. Thus, a goalie should be going #1 unless you have a freak of nature like Ovechkin that blows the other people in his position out of the water.
* But here’s what’s frustrating. For my tier 1 of goalies, I have Tim Thomas, Roberto Luongo, Cam Ward, Evgeni Nabokov and Ryan Miller. I picked Tim Thomas at #3, even though Crosby is sitting there, because if I’m going with conventional thinking, I wouldn’t get any of these guys in that list if I waited for the 22nd pick. This is why I hated the third pick. I shouldn’t have gotten any of my second tier guys if I passed on a goalie in the first round. But only four of us picked goalies in the first (three other goalies who aren’t in my tier 1). If I picked Crosby in the 1st, I wouldn’t have gotten a tier 1 goalie in the 2nd. Instead I picked Eric Staal, who is not Sid the Kid by any means (especially in a league that has “points” cats and “powerplay points” cats.
* I haven’t watched hockey for almost two years now, downfall of being in the Phils. But the fabulous thing about fantasy sports is that the numbers is the only thing that really matters. You can look at stats and, sort of, forecast what’s going to happen. The disadvantage of being away from the action though is that I’m away from news, like injury reports. In conclusion, I didn’t know Marian Hossa and Phil Kessel are getting shoulder surgeries and are out indefinitely.
* My fantasy sleeper: Paul Stastny. And I got him.
* One of my picks I absolutely hated: Tim Connolly, because he’s the very last player left in my list of forwards I’m considering picking. And he was there so I picked him. I felt committed to pick him because of my Excel spreadsheet.
Stat of the Week: Alexander Ovechkin is on pace to score 102.5 goals this season. So is teammate Alexander Semin.
Starting Line-Up of Unsigned Players that is Better Than Your Team:
Radim Vrbata, F, CLS = 3 G, 1 A, 4 Points, +2, 2 PIM, 2 PPP, 15 Shots
Patric Hornqvist, F, NSH = 2 G, 2 A, 4 Points, +3, 2 PIM, 8 Shots
Rich Peverly, F, ATL = 2 G, 2 A, 4 Points, +2, 1 PPP, 4 Shots
Alex Goligoski, D, PIT = 1 G, 3 A, 4 Points, +2, 1 PPP, 3 Shots
Mark Giordano, D, CGY = 1 G, 2 A, 3 Points, +1, 4 PIM, 2 PPP, 4 Shots
Ondrej Pavelec, G, ATL = 2 W, 2.50 GAA, 70 Shots, .929 SV%
Last year’s hockey draft was enjoyable, or fun for the first half of the year. It’s not that I bowed out or didn’t want to see it through, but not having internet access at home is a killer. The net here is a chore. You have to shower, get dressed, and go to the nearest net café or the nearest wi-fi spot. As oppose to where my combatants live right now, they can surf it on their underwear. But the heck, let’s have another crack at it. Battle commence. Mortal Kombat Draft of Death: The Sequel.
I didn’t bother doing a running diary of our draft but let’s go through a quick dissection of my team and draft strategy:
* I got the third pick. I didn’t want to have the third pick. If I didn’t get the first pick, otherwise known as the automatic Alexander Ovechkin pick. I would’ve rather picked later in the rounds to get a high second round pick, just because the first round talent is such a crapshoot.
* So I don’t want to reiterate this year after year: goalies are the be all and end all of fantasy hockey. Just look at the numbers. In our league, there are seven cats for skaters, good for 84 out of 144 points. There are five cats exclusively for goalies, 60 out of 144 points. 19 skaters are responsible for 84 points. 3 goalies are responsible for the 60. Thus, a goalie should be going #1 unless you have a freak of nature like Ovechkin that blows the other people in his position out of the water.
* But here’s what’s frustrating. For my tier 1 of goalies, I have Tim Thomas, Roberto Luongo, Cam Ward, Evgeni Nabokov and Ryan Miller. I picked Tim Thomas at #3, even though Crosby is sitting there, because if I’m going with conventional thinking, I wouldn’t get any of these guys in that list if I waited for the 22nd pick. This is why I hated the third pick. I shouldn’t have gotten any of my second tier guys if I passed on a goalie in the first round. But only four of us picked goalies in the first (three other goalies who aren’t in my tier 1). If I picked Crosby in the 1st, I wouldn’t have gotten a tier 1 goalie in the 2nd. Instead I picked Eric Staal, who is not Sid the Kid by any means (especially in a league that has “points” cats and “powerplay points” cats.
* I haven’t watched hockey for almost two years now, downfall of being in the Phils. But the fabulous thing about fantasy sports is that the numbers is the only thing that really matters. You can look at stats and, sort of, forecast what’s going to happen. The disadvantage of being away from the action though is that I’m away from news, like injury reports. In conclusion, I didn’t know Marian Hossa and Phil Kessel are getting shoulder surgeries and are out indefinitely.
* My fantasy sleeper: Paul Stastny. And I got him.
* One of my picks I absolutely hated: Tim Connolly, because he’s the very last player left in my list of forwards I’m considering picking. And he was there so I picked him. I felt committed to pick him because of my Excel spreadsheet.
Stat of the Week: Alexander Ovechkin is on pace to score 102.5 goals this season. So is teammate Alexander Semin.
Starting Line-Up of Unsigned Players that is Better Than Your Team:
Radim Vrbata, F, CLS = 3 G, 1 A, 4 Points, +2, 2 PIM, 2 PPP, 15 Shots
Patric Hornqvist, F, NSH = 2 G, 2 A, 4 Points, +3, 2 PIM, 8 Shots
Rich Peverly, F, ATL = 2 G, 2 A, 4 Points, +2, 1 PPP, 4 Shots
Alex Goligoski, D, PIT = 1 G, 3 A, 4 Points, +2, 1 PPP, 3 Shots
Mark Giordano, D, CGY = 1 G, 2 A, 3 Points, +1, 4 PIM, 2 PPP, 4 Shots
Ondrej Pavelec, G, ATL = 2 W, 2.50 GAA, 70 Shots, .929 SV%
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