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Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comNov 14, 2023, 01:00 PM ET
CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard.
If your fantasy hockey team needs a jolt of energy here in Week 5 of the season, maybe lightning in a bottle should not be your target.
In a sense, I mean that maybe the roster piece you needed all along doesn’t quite have the hype or excitement as some other pieces do. But this asset has been patiently waiting for you to notice it on the free-agent pile. The asset knows it can help your team, if you would just give it a chance.
Let’s look for some consistency that might be available right this moment in your league.
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The following players are sorted by the percentage of their games played in which they have earned at least 1.7 fantasy points. We will call that “relevant” for fantasy hockey. We are only looking at skaters, not goaltenders.
The 1.7 mark is a pretty good ballpark. This season, 2,757 individual box scores by skaters across 228 games have resulted in at least 1.7 fantasy points. That’s about 12 per game. With 36 skaters per game on each side, that’s precisely one-third of the skaters making the cut (33.3%).
Since there are 576 active roster spots (18 skaters on 32 teams) in the NHL and your mid-sized fantasy league has 180 active skaters (15 roster spots for 12 teams), that’s also about one-third (31.3%).
So the 1.7 fantasy points is a good target to qualify as useful.
Listed here are players available in at least 40% of ESPN leagues. Once again, we are sorting by highest percentage of games that qualify as relevant (1.7 fantasy points).
These are the players that, while they may not light your league on fire, they will actively help your squad.
Resources: Goalie depth chart | Daily lines | Projections | Play for free | Player rater…
Source link : https://www.espn.com/fantasy/hockey/story/_/id/38897160/fantasy-hockey-consistent-players-artem-zub-alec-martinez
Author : Sean Allen
Publish date : 2023-11-14 18:12:13
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