Reply With QuoteSci_Girl (10-04-2015)
Ended up doing this at 4 AM. First time doing this, had no idea what I was doing!Originally Posted by Sci_Girl
Projected 5th out of 12.
C - Stamkos, McDavid (had to do it)
LW - Ladd, Toffoli
RW - Hossa, Mark Stone
D - Keith, Pietrangelo, Leddy, Fowler
G - Quick, Frederik Andersen
Extras - Lucic, Gallagher, Kuznetsov, Ryan Strome
Sci_Girl (10-04-2015)
Ended up doing this at 4 AM. First time doing this, had no idea what I was doing!
C - Stamkos, McDavid (had to do it)
LW - Ladd, Toffoli
RW - Hossa, Mark Stone
D - Keith, Pietrangelo, Leddy, Fowler
G - Quick, Frederik Andersen
Extras - Lucic, Gallagher, Kuznetsov, Ryan Strome
Good team.
I had a hard time at first but then I realized it is quite simple. It is all about points rather than just wins. Your goalies you want wins though.
You need to log in everyday before the games start so you can select which players you want to play that night. Get the Yahoo Fantasy Sports app so you can still do your teams when away from the computer. At the bottom of the screen you will see a chart of numbers for maximum games. Broken down to 164 max games for each of center, LW, RW and goalie. D has 328. These numbers mean over the season you can play each position a maximum of times respectively. So you need to pick and choose. If you just play anyone that is playing a game that night you will use up those max games real fast and you cannot earn points once they are used up.
So for example if Tampa was playing Edmonton that night and because you have both Stamkos and McDavid playing that night you think who is going to win that game and thus more lkely to get your player some points. I would think tampa so I would put Stamkos as my center position for that night and bench McDavid. Or if you think edmonton will win and thus the chance for McDavid to have more points than Stamkos that night play him instead.
There is some strategy in it because if you just play all your players every night you will use up your max games by about January. Can't have that. So budget who you want to play. Some nights you may think oh damn only Islanders are playing tonight against Calgary who will light them up so you will bench Leddy so you do not waste a D position against your max games. Instead of wasting it you will get a +1 D against your max games. You could have used leddy but chose to bench him so now you have an extra D game to use at a later time. Getting those + next to the max games is good because when it gets to the end of the season you are basically running off of those if you did not budget the max games numbers right.
A lot of people will say eff it though and use as many players as they can at the start even if you have players playing against each other that night. The purpose of that is just to get as many points at the stsrt when everyone is healthy then deal with the max games after. I do not do that but I can see why people do.
Skarner (10-04-2015)
Will definitely have to get the app, didn't realize you have a maximum number of games
Yeah its at the bottom of the screen when you are on "your team" menu. And to bench or select players just click on the C or D letter for the position and it will highlight your players in that position. Tinker around when the season starts. You will get the hang of it. It's just nice to have something to do.
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One more day for hockey!!
when some team plays my Habs this year.
Skarner (10-11-2015)
Oilers have yet to score a real goal-first one was off of the face off and the opposing team knocked it off their own player. No oiler touched the puck so no "real" goal. And yet these past two games, both lost, they have played better than any other game the past 5+ seasons.
Skarner (10-11-2015)
Yeah, team is still making mistakes but they're looking much better. Hoping they'll be better in a month or so. Some of the MacT signings/trades have been awful. Purcell, Nikitin, Ference
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