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Top 10 NHL Rookies To Watch Out for This Season

With Toronto’s big three, Zach Werenski, and Matt Murray all making names for themselves, last year’s rookie class was one of the best classes  in a long time. Next season should be no different. No one really knows how any of these players will do in their first season, which is why these rookies will be drafted in the last rounds in deep drafts, if at all. However, if you play your cards right, you could end up with a really promising young player, which is great for keeper leagues. They’re probably all taken in dynasty…

The Pros and Cons of NHL Advanced Statistics from a Fantasy Perspective

It has taken a while for sports to embrace advanced statistics. It really started in baseball when the book Moneyball came out in 2003. Moneyball was about the 2001 Oakland Athletics new approach to baseball where the GM Billy Beane would value players based on stats or sabermetrics rather than what scouts used to just look at players. Although Oakland still has never won a World Series, the Athletics’ went on to win 20 straight games at one point that year with this new method. Soon every team was following suit. Then…

Will the Vegas Golden Knights Have Fantasy Hockey Impact?

The NHL offseason was a little grander than usual. This was all due to the expansion draft for the 31st NHL team, the Vegas Golden Knights. It appears Vegas’ strategy is to grow during the draft. They opted to get future picks instead of taking the best available player from each team. They could have had Matt Dumba, Sami Vatanen, or a plethora of good goalies (Mrazek, Raanta, or Grubauer). Instead, the Golden Knights have 27 draft picks in the next 3 drafts just from all the side-deals they made with teams to not take…

Top 10 NHL Unrestricted Free Agents

With the awards, the Vegas expansion draft, and the entry draft all happening last week, there is only one more big event to look forward to in the NHL offseason. Unrestricted free agents can sign wherever they want on Saturday, July 1. This year isn’t as exciting as usual because every free agent has a question mark, but there are some fantasy-relevant players available. This top 10's criteria is age, position, and last season’s point production. I’ll also discuss which teams could be interested and what question marks they…

Fantasy Sports Etiquette 101

When it comes to fantasy sports, etiquette in your league is of utmost importance. Using bad etiquette can have consequences, but for the most part those consequences are social. For example: You may be ignored when a manager is shopping a player as a result of poor rapport with the trading manager. With trading being such a huge part of fantasy sports, you want to make sure that you adhere to the rules of etiquette, in order to build and preserve trade relationships and to help maintain the integrity of your league. LEAGUE…