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Some friends and I have our 3rd annual Sporting News salary cap hockey league going. We're looking for more people to join to make it more interesting.
It's much different from Yahoo and also lower maintenance. In brief, you pick 7 players (C, W, W, D, D, Util, G) with $30M salary. The player's values are determined by their popularity and are updated daily once the season starts. The more popular a player is, the more money they're worth. So this becomes a balancing act -- how much bang for your buck can you get?
Another fun aspect is you can treat it like investing in stocks. You pick a player you consider to be undervalued, and as their stock increases (if they play well, they get traded for, increasing their value) you monitor and decide to keep or sell. This way you increase your salary available, I usually have 40M or so by the end to invest...more salary means you can pay better players.
So there's more dimensions than Yahoo. There's more stats, weighted by points. Hits count, for instance. The scoring point system is here: http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com...s.html#scoring
Every week, you're given two trade credits. You can save them up if you like your team, or use them to swap players. This is a Basic league, meaning there's no way to get more (in the Pro league, you can spend real $ to get trades -- I don't like that. This is 100% free and fair.)
Also, quite obviously, unlike Yahoo any team can pick any player, as long as you can afford them. There's not only one player in the entire league. Every team could have Crosby if they wanted to spend their money that way.
There are two "seasons" every NHL season: Part 1 is the first half, Part 2 is the second half. This means if you screw up the first part (learning experience), you can start fresh in Part 2.
I'd be happy to entertain more questions. It's a lot of fun and forces you to think a bit differently and encourages you to locate sleeper picks.
League: Piracy on the Open Ice
Password: zamboni
Click here to join.
Some friends and I have our 3rd annual Sporting News salary cap hockey league going. We're looking for more people to join to make it more interesting.
It's much different from Yahoo and also lower maintenance. In brief, you pick 7 players (C, W, W, D, D, Util, G) with $30M salary. The player's values are determined by their popularity and are updated daily once the season starts. The more popular a player is, the more money they're worth. So this becomes a balancing act -- how much bang for your buck can you get?
Another fun aspect is you can treat it like investing in stocks. You pick a player you consider to be undervalued, and as their stock increases (if they play well, they get traded for, increasing their value) you monitor and decide to keep or sell. This way you increase your salary available, I usually have 40M or so by the end to invest...more salary means you can pay better players.
So there's more dimensions than Yahoo. There's more stats, weighted by points. Hits count, for instance. The scoring point system is here: http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com...s.html#scoring
Every week, you're given two trade credits. You can save them up if you like your team, or use them to swap players. This is a Basic league, meaning there's no way to get more (in the Pro league, you can spend real $ to get trades -- I don't like that. This is 100% free and fair.)
Also, quite obviously, unlike Yahoo any team can pick any player, as long as you can afford them. There's not only one player in the entire league. Every team could have Crosby if they wanted to spend their money that way.
There are two "seasons" every NHL season: Part 1 is the first half, Part 2 is the second half. This means if you screw up the first part (learning experience), you can start fresh in Part 2.
I'd be happy to entertain more questions. It's a lot of fun and forces you to think a bit differently and encourages you to locate sleeper picks.
League: Piracy on the Open Ice
Password: zamboni
Click here to join.
) if I log on and do my picks today (September 24), I will likely be changing them before season start (October 04), but I don't want anyone to see my sleeper picks.....will everyone be able to see the team I have picked before the season starts? (basically I just want to pick and change picks to see what 30 million looks like in my lineup before settling on a "team")
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draft that I am on my way to. I have finished 1st loser for the last three years running, and would like to break that trend (first loser = the top team not to be in the money 
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