AHL- Apolyton Hockey League 11/12

[Asher]

Okay.

I'll trade Spezza for Malkin...

[mrboo123]

lol no. But if you want to complete your old man team, I could trade Lidstrom for some (NOT Spezza)

[Flubber]

I don't know if you guys would find this interesting but over at dobber hockey they have a hockey rankings system you can customize to your leagie and settings--Its a premium feature that you have to pay for but they will give you a one day trial for free so I ran my leagues through it for giggles

You tell it a bunch of things about your league and then they will rank the players based on whatever past or projected dataset you want it to use

For example I had it rate offesive players for my 12 team, 25 man roster, head to head where we use goals, assists, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP and Hits and had it rank players based on last years stats ONLY (it doesn't project-- if you want to rank based on oprojections you need to feed it that set)

here were the results

1. Corey Perry
big gap
2.Claude Giroux
medium gap
3.Ryan Kesler
4.Chara
5. Letang
5. Backes
7. Ovie
8. D Sedin
9. Prust
10. Lucic
11. Cooke
12. Ott

It apparently weights all the categories the same. Some of the results are a little difficult to fathom until you see one guy has 4 SHP and another has none and realize that 4 SHP might alone win you that category in a couiple of different weeks. While its tough to think that Tuumu Ruutu ranked 30 is a better fantasy option than say Toews at #33-- as Toews beat him in 5 of 7 categories last year--- I guess the stats machine really valued Ruutuus 309 Hits

I don't claim to understand it-- or even completely agree with it, but its interesting

[notyoueither]

There has been a **** up.

It appears as though Yahoo did not import our two IR roster spots from last years settings.

If so, we can do two things.

1. I reset the draft and make the change, then re-enter the draft info.
2. We have a forum IR. You drop the player and post that he is on your IR. Nobody can take (I can remove the player from a roster if need be).

Let's hear from you.

[Sparrowhawk]

Ouch. That's ugly.

I think the IR is an important part of our league, and it seems that of your two options, one is painful now, and easy later, the other is painful all year long. I'd rather we reset and re-enter. Having said that I know the process of entering 140 players isn't fun...I'd be more than willing to help with that if I can somehow. (and assuming that everyone else agrees for the short term pain rather than dealing with this all year).

(How is it that you asked us to review the draft settings, and several of us...myself included....reviewed and missed this? ).

/me

[notyoueither]

Indeed. We have no IR.

I am leaning toward re-entering the draft info as that will be pain over a short period vs niggling crap over the whole season.

[notyoueither]

Ouch. That's ugly.

I think the IR is an important part of our league, and it seems that of your two options, one is painful now, and easy later, the other is painful all year long. I'd rather we reset and re-enter. Having said that I know the process of entering 140 players isn't fun...I'd be more than willing to help with that if I can somehow. (and assuming that everyone else agrees for the short term pain rather than dealing with this all year).

(How is it that you asked us to review the draft settings, and several of us...myself included....reviewed and missed this? ).

/me

Yeah, we all had the busies.

It's not that much work, but it won't get done this weekend. More busy, busy for me.

[Asher]

It'd be great to have the IR slots in the official system to ensure smooth sailing the rest of the year...you've got some time to redo it though, right?

[notyoueither]

Yup. Season does not start this week. I'd likely do it Mon or Tues.

[Sparrowhawk]

Do we all have to rejoin the league or can you reset it without us going through that?

And if you have to reset, we still keep prior years comparitive history I assume right?

/me

[notyoueither]

Only thing managers will have to do is reset your rosters if you have already done so.

There is a button for me to reset the draft. That should blank just the draft and then I re-enter the players.

[Flubber]

Only thing managers will have to do is reset your rosters if you have already done so.

There is a button for me to reset the draft. That should blank just the draft and then I re-enter the players.

arrgh-- no fun-- you could give one of the other folks temporary co-commish powers to share the pain--

[Hot Mustard]

Hello.. wow, this place brings back memories. A few familiar names here still too.

So after a 3+ years absence I have been dragged back into fantasy hockey. I sat pondering where I might seek guidance on players/teams/situations I'm not familiar with, and fondly recalled a few 'experts' here I enjoyed competing against.

[notyoueither]

Wow. Blast from the past.

You know we are all experts. What guidance do you seek, padawan?

[Guynemer]

You must offer proper homage to the sages and seers of fantasy hockey.