Fantasy Hockey 2011-2012

krissovo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

A really encouraging 11-0 win to clinch the regular season. Milan Michalek might turn out to be my pick-up of the season, he scored well in every category this week.

Michalek was my star at the start of season but went cold for a while after a injury. Typical that he is now scoring well again and my current team could not score in a brothel with a handfull of 50's right now.

I am having a very frustrating season so far, its boom or bust. One week my goaltenders will pick up shutouts and wins no problem and the next they get hammered with 5 or goals each game. Start of the season I was scoring well but no assists, now I have assists coming out of my ears and no goals. Its the same for +/- and powerplay points. My team also chokes for some reason when I play the top 3 and I will score low in all categories and get hammered when if I had the same points from the previous week I could at least be competitive.

Anyway, looking good so far for the last playoff spot. Tonight will be a big night for me as I have a bit of a shuffle around.

Coeus

Okay, I've unleashed Crosby

I noticed that the game is Setanta Sports 1, when did they switch the games over there. I was wondering why there hadn't been many games on the freebie channel recently. Pity as its an early tipoff due to DST...

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

Okay, I've unleashed Crosby

I noticed that the game is Setanta Sports 1, when did they switch the games over there. I was wondering why there hadn't been many games on the freebie channel recently. Pity as its an early tipoff due to DST...

+1 on his first shift. Have noticed a lot of games on SS1 lately, bit annoying.

MrJoeSoap

Got so caught up in the Crosby comeback I forgot to update my Fantasy team, doh!

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Got so caught up in the Crosby comeback I forgot to update my Fantasy team, doh!

Yea, I knew I had to be on a bit earlier today with games starting @ 11 and to make the roster move to get him back in the lineup. I guess we are just playing for stats now with the championship bracket all but decided...

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

Yea, I knew I had to be on a bit earlier today with the games starting @ 11 and to make the roster move to get him back in the lineup. I guess we are just playing for stats now with the championship bracket all but decided...

It's just force of habit now at this stage really, I don't know what I'll do when the season is over! I sometimes work until midnight and the amount of times I've had to phone the girlfriend to change the team because I forgot to do it is ridiculous. She knows my team off by heart now I think. :pac:

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

It's just force of habit now at this stage really, I don't know what I'll do when the season is over! I sometimes work until midnight and the amount of times I've had to phone the girlfriend to change the team because I forgot to do it is ridiculous. She knows my team off by heart now I think. :pac:

I set my team a few days in advance in case I forget. Although if pick up a player you need to go reset the lineups which you may have already set.

Oh Hagelin just scored

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

I set my team a few days in advance in case I forget. Although if pick up a player you need to go reset the lineups which you may have already set.

Oh Hagelin just scored

I don't know if I'm being paranoid or stupid, but any time I set my lineup for the week on a Monday it seems to be wrong by Wednesday or Thursday. I click Submit on every individual day, but it just never seems to work for me.

MrJoeSoap

Not exactly brimming with confidence ahead of the playoff semi-final. Based on this weeks scores I'd have lost 9-2...

Will hopefully get to throw up some regular season stats tomorrow once it's all over.

krissovo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Not exactly brimming with confidence ahead of the playoff semi-final. Based on this weeks scores I'd have lost 9-2...

Its been my headache all season with boom or bust scoring, we played a few weeks ago and I scored no real points in any area and my goaltenders were letting in goals for fun. Last week my Goaltenders were on fire and I scored well in most areas so I guess its up to the hockey gods whats going to happen.

MrJoeSoap

Pleasantly surprised with the first half of the week. Had something like 11 goals in the first two nights, which has to be some sort of a record for me. Three wins from three from my goaltenders (though no shutouts and no spectacular numbers) have given me a big advantage there too.

Still a lot of games to be played this week though, can go either way.

The other semi-final looks like a really close one, the Duncan Keith penalty minutes might have decided that category but he probably won't be playing again for a few games after this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1jwM_6EDW0

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

The other semi-final looks like a really close one, the Duncan Keith penalty minutes might have decided that category but he probably won't be playing again for a few games after this...

Yea, your looking good so far this week. Flames got nearly 40 PIMs last night. There is not hope of catching that since my team hasn't scored well in that category this season. We split the season matchups so it was always going to be close

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

Yea, your looking good so far this week. Flames got nearly 40 PIMs last night. There is not hope of catching that since my team hasn't scored well in that category this season. We split the season matchups so it was always going to be close

Looking like a great call to bench Rinne against the Penguins. 2-0 after 5 minutes.

krissovo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Still a lot of games to be played this week though, can go either way.

Just watched Neal get 4 points in the flesh this evening, I surrender!

This game sucks!!!!

I am that lucky in this game that if I fell in a bucket of boobs I would come out sucking my thumb.

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Looking like a great call to bench Rinne against the Penguins. 2-0 after 5 minutes.

I wouldn't starting any keeper against the Penguins at the moment. Gonna be tough for me to turn my matchup round after Quick's Shutout last night.

MrJoeSoap

krissovo wrote: »

Just watched Neal get 4 points in the flesh this evening, I surrender!

This game sucks!!!!

I am that lucky in this game that if I fell in a bucket of boobs I would come out sucking my thumb.

Haha I watched it myself, Malkin was on fire. Two pretty impressive goaltending perfomances for you last night, though. Means you only need to pick up a shorthanded point and/or swing two of the other categories and it's game on. Not over by a long shot.

PS - Neal was my only point-scorer last night.

MrJoeSoap

The thoughts of having to face Crosby, Ovechkin and Giroux in the final, all of whom are on streaks... ugh

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

The thoughts of having to face Crosby, Ovechkin and Giroux in the final, all of whom are on streaks... ugh

Neal wasn't too shabby last week either

I needed 2 of 3 categories to go my way last night. If I got back to a tie I had a chance as I had the season matchup tiebreaker in my favour. A season of play decided by 1 point in a tie-breaker is as close as it gets...

We split the season series aswell so we now have a decider

MrJoeSoap

Coeus wrote: »

We split the season series aswell so we now have a decider

True. I worked it out that I'd have beaten you 6-2 if we played last week, but that is honestly the only bit of confidence I have going into the final. I'm going to have to study this one pretty closely...

GoldFour4

Coeus wrote: »

Neal wasn't too shabby last week either

I needed 2 of 3 categories to go my way last night. If I got back to a tie I had a chance as I had the season matchup tiebreaker in my favour. A season of play decided by 1 point in a tie-breaker is as close as it gets...

We split the season series aswell so we now have a decider

What was the tie breaker ? My heart is broken ! So close but yet so far

Coeus

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

True. I worked it out that I'd have beaten you 6-2 if we played last week, but that is honestly the only bit of confidence I have going into the final. I'm going to have to study this one pretty closely...

Yea, my goalkeeping wasn't great except for Rinne over the weekend. I need him to carry that form into this week and Howard to come back as I can't drop him.

I wasn't too hot on PIMs either but I gave up on that after the Duncan elbow.

Should be a good matchup. I'll actually have to win this week as you hold the season tiebreaker if its another tie...

MrJoeSoap

malachyscott wrote: »

What was the tie breaker ? My heart is broken ! So close but yet so far

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/sports/fantasysports/hockey/scoring/hockey-82.html

Unlucky Malachy, when I logged in this morning and saw that I was facing Henry Le Cheat this week I thought I was after blowing my matchup. You looked to have it in the bag.

Coeus

malachyscott wrote: »

What was the tie breaker ? My heart is broken ! So close but yet so far

It was the total points scored in our matchups. You won 7-3-1 in the first, I won the second 7-2-2. When you add the points I led 16-15.

As I said alot of things had to go my way over the weekend and I didnt see it happening to be honest until I saw Edmonton hammering Columbus which gave me a good shot at assists. I then needed Rinne to play away in Chicago and win and Halak to lose or be benched.

MrJoeSoap

Top 10 Matchup Performances of the Season



Bottom 10 Matchup Perfomances of the Season



Cumulative Points Totals



Week-by-Week Positions



Funny to see how the top four positions didn't change for the last seven weeks of the season, and how the top three were bunched together, then the remaining eight, and then the bottom team. The Florida Snow Badgers kept up with the pace until week ten.

smackbunnybaby

Check out this performance by my goaltenders on Saturday night!!

G W GAA SV SA SV% SHO
Martin Brodeur (NJ - G) 1 0.00 22 22 1.000 1

G
Mike Smith (Pho - G) 57% 1 0.00 44 44 1.000 1

BN
Antti Niemi (SJ - G) 1 0.00 22 22 1.000 1

smackbunnybaby

Well done to the Board Street Bullies!

Tight final!

Also well done to Henry le Cheat and Flaming A-Holes on their 2nd and 3rd places finishes.

Not a bad season overall.

Lessons learned: Hockey can be as unpredictable as Football with concussions and injuries in general causing a lot of problems!

MrJoeSoap

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Tight final!

Just a bit! Promised myself I'd be in bed by 10pm last night, not a hope...

Will post a bit more later when I get a chance. Really enjoyed the season, thanks to everyone involved and hopefully it'll be even better next year.

Coeus

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Well done to the Board Street Bullies!

Tight final!

Also well done to Henry le Cheat and Flaming A-Holes on their 2nd and 3rd places finishes.

Not a bad season overall.

Lessons learned: Hockey can be as unpredictable as Football with concussions and injuries in general causing a lot of problems!

Yes, it ended up been close. The help I needed from my goalies came one night too late. I guess it was too much to expect a second Sunday night comeback in a row

Anyhow congrats to MJS on taking it down.

GoldFour4

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Well done to the Board Street Bullies!

Tight final!

Also well done to Henry le Cheat and Flaming A-Holes on their 2nd and 3rd places finishes.

Not a bad season overall.

Lessons learned: Hockey can be as unpredictable as Football with concussions and injuries in general causing a lot of problems!

Well done to MJS.

3rd place matchup didn't go my way in the end, I always seemed to be trailing in it. Forgetting to set my lineup on saturday didn't help either !