It's Time for some Phantasy Puck

I liked head to head scoring last year, I want a live draft (there was some awesome shit talking last year) and I can’t decide between snaking and auction. Auction sounds fun but I don’t know if I want to actively prepare for it.

I don’t have a ton of fantasy knowledge, but I’ll answer as best I can:

2. Standard draft, online is good for me. Auction sounds like too much for me.
3. Head to Head was great.
4. Yes. Something like only 2 trades/moves a month. Way too much picking people up off waivers last yera.
5. Uhhhh let’s see… I’d say 2 bench spots, 2 IR spots. 3 Goalies. 2 of each forward position, 4 D. Maybe about 15 players in total, 2 utility guys? Something like that.

I’m in. I don’t have much experience, although I did end up placing second in a random pool on Yahoo that I joined last year without touching my team once! I’ll fit in wherever there is space. I’m down with a live draft.

It sounds like fun but I definitely won’t have time this year :(
I’m cheering for whoever gets Sid!

1: Yes
2: Standard snaking draft
3: Head to Head scoring. G, A, PPP, SHP, PIM, Shots. SV%, GAA, SO
4: Unlimited trading though commish approved; max 2 moves per week; unlimited for season.
5: 2 Forwards per position, 4 defensemen, 2 goalies. 3 bench spots and 2 IR spots.

I think the divisions should go as follows:

PPP D1 should be filled first with people in D1 last year. Any empty spaces should go to D2 players from last year. If there aren’t enough spaces for all D2 folks then order of finish will factor in.

1. Obviously interested
2. With so many people, I think an auction would be better (i.e. everyone is always involved instead of potentially waiting 20 minutes between certain picks); but I can live with standard snake draft
3. H2H all the way
4. Unlimited trades; 4 add/drops per week to limit streaming while not completely shutting down roster moves
5. 2 Forwards per position, 3 D, 2 Goalies, 2 IR spots and 4 bench.

Cool. Count me in

1: Yes
2: Standard online snaking draft
3: head to head, G A PPP, PIM, Shots, SVP, GAA, Shots against
4: Unlimited trades, max 3-4 waiver moves per week
5: 2 forwards per position, 4 D, 2 goalies, 2 IR, 3 bench.

I’ve also got a friend who’s a bit of a lurker around here that would be interested in joining.

1) Definitely interested.
2) Standard Draft
3) H2H for sure
4) No limit on trades, Max 5 add/drops per week is usually fine in my other leagues
5) 2F/spot, 4 D, 2 Goalies, 3 bench, 1 IR (<— this was a touchey subject last season as so many stars were injured for periods of time)

I’m out for this year. Don’t have time to manage a fantasy team

the auction idea sounds really cool…but i don’t have the time for this anymore. :(

1: Yes
2: Live draft… snake is fine though the auction sounds interesting too, no real preference.
3: H2H… G, A, PPP, SHP, PIM, Shots. SV%, GAA, SO
4: No preference.
5: 2 of each forward position, 4 D, 3 bench, 1 IR… 2 GP min. for goalies.

Doan F with Phoenix should do well again. :P

2. Standard
3. Head to Head
4. 2 moves a week, trades can be whatever
5. 3 IR spots, 2 goalie games per week since each team will likely only have 1 starter

How about having the D2 be like beta testers and try out the auction draft?

1. Yes
2. Live/Standard (although the auction is intriguing)
3. H2H – Yahoo standard is fine.
4. Unlimited moves per week, max moves per season = number of roster spots. So in my suggested roster size, I’d say 16 max moves in a season.
5. 6F/4D/2G – 3B/1IR

Is the auction live or Blind? While I like live drafts my worry is not being available for the draft means no participation.

2. Live
3. H2H
4. 2 waivers per week, unlimited trades
5. 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 1UTIL, 2G, 5BN, 2IR

1 yes…
2 standard draft
3 either way
4 maybe like 3 moves in a week (because my players will break like they were Sami Salo)
5 2 players/spot, 4-5 bench and 3 IR (because my players will break like they were Sami Salo) and min. 2 games for goalies/week

Head to Head, Standard, don’t care about the rest, so long as I’m in

1 I’m in
2 standard live draft works for me.
3 I liked the head to head match ups we used last year.
4 2 moves a week, a max number per full season
5 standard spots 2 of each spot, 4 bench 2 IR

1. Yes. I was 6th in D1 last year, looking to move up.
2. Same draft as last year. Auction sounds like too much work and too confusing.
3. I had never done H2H before last year, but I really liked it. I’d go with that again.
4. I thought the moves were fine: 4 per week.
5. I’d like to see smaller team sizes, like 6 fowards, 4 D, 1 G and maybe two bench spots.

How many teams in each division? 10, 12, 14, 16?

we do a 16 team one at work, and it’s awesome, you really have to find gems to win.

I’ll play. I’m pretty new here, but a seasoned vet in fantasy hockey. Plus I’ve never done a league with so many players, that alone should be a blast.

Standard draft would be the way to go for me. Though I would not be opposed to an auction, I’m more comfortable with the snake draft.

H2H is the way to go, encourages trash talk and activity, I think.

Waivers/Fair trades are what make fantasy sports so much fun. I love getting the next big thing before anybody else picks up on it. I’m for unlimited, but if you are going to limit moves, make it a reasonably high limit. Trades are fine as long as nobody tanks and trades their team away for nothing. So as long as there is some sort of veto system in place for trades, I’m for unlimited trades too.

as for roster spots, I like 2C 2LW 2RW 4D 2G, but I’m not too picky.

1. oui oui
2. standard snake for me
3. head to head or total points is good for me (G=A=1 pt, Win=2 pts, SO=additional 3 pts). for H2H i like the following categories (G, A, Powerplay Pts, Shorthanded Pts, PIMs, +/-, Shots — Wins, Losses, Saves, Save %… shutouts seems like too flukey a category in H2H)
4. i like the idea of 2 waivers per week
5. 20 total: 2-C, 4-W, 4-D, 2-G, 2-Util, 1-IR, 5 Bench… 2 or 3 game minimum for goalies

1.yes
2.live snake draft
3.fantasy points, though head to head sounds intersting, i’ve never done that
4.not too much, but the ability to replace IR players for sure
5.what everyone else said.

I’m in (and I mean it this year)
everything else is what evs

1. yes (!!!)
2. regular draft
3. rotisserie
4. limit trades/pickups to some set number. preferably as low as possible. no reason to make this the most serious of leagues. it should be pretty casual, IMHO.
5. Depends on the number of teams, but I would prefer a not-so-deep draft. I don’t want to have to draft the also-rans of the league.

Jesus, I was going to throw my name in the hat…but this baby may be 98 teams deep by the time things are said and done here. Well done, PPP. Well done. This is when those guys/gals who were here from the beginning have to be having fun.

1. definitely interested
2. i prefer auction at this point, but i’m down with a standard too. don’t do an auction if you wanna keep doing standards, cause it’s a lot of fun once you do one. takes a bit more time than a standard generally, but you’re a lot more involved watching every nomination, bidding more often then you would just pick a player in a standard. in a standard you’re just… ok, 5 more picks till me, hope nobody picks Player X. auction, you want him, you bid on him, dont have to worry about the luck of order.
3. either is fine really if:
4. there is a weekly move limit if its a head to head. if its a roto there is usually a limit cap per position, like 82 games per slot, so moves aren’t as big a deal there since once you run out of games for a position you stop getting the stats for it.
5. 2-3 C, LW, RW and 4-5 Dman, 2 goalies, couple bench and IR would work well with 20 teams imo.

I’d be down to run a league too if need be, i’m always active with my fantasy teams. it’s serious business.

I like the Standard draft (snaking), and for it to be live.

Also prefer H2H scoring, with 10 categories like Yahoo has, but G,A,PPP, +/-, PIM, SOG, Wins, SV%, GAA, SHO.

2 per, for C, LW, RW, 3/4 D, 2 G, 4 Bench, 2 IR. If you want to cut that down in half due the amount of players we’d be picking from, that’s cool.

If there are going to be so many teams per league, it might be better to have a very lenient move limit (if at all), as there’s a much bigger chance that you’ll pick up crap players in later rounds, and you don’t want to handicap anyone because of that.

1. Put me down for the umteenth division (geez this is going to be huge)
2. Auctions are great and all, but what people don’t realize is that a deep league, with 20 owners, is looking at roughly 6 or 7 hours of drafting. I vote Live Snake.
3. H2H, for sure.
4. No need for transaction limits if rosters are big enough (20 X 30 = 30 X 20).
5. I like a big bench to add an element of strategy. 3 C, 3 LW, 3 RW, 4 D, 2 G, no Util, 15 BN, 5 IR. Anything less than 50% bench slots means simply doing chores on non-Saturdays. Log on, dress everyone, log off. Forcing people to bench some of their players creates startegic choices each day. Goalie game minimum needs to be addressed carefully, depending on league size.

: Yes
2: Standard snaking draft
3: Head to Head scoring. G, A, PPP, SHP, PIM, Shots. SV%, GAA, SO
4: Unlimited trading though commish approved; max 2 moves per week; unlimited for season.
5: 2 Forwards per position, 4 defensemen, 2 goalies. 3 bench spots and 2 IR spots.

Sure
snake
Head 2 head
only restrict waivers if someone’s being a real dick about it
don’t care about roster size/positions

I have unfinished business and plan on eviscerating whoever has Ryan Miller every time we meet.

I’m fine if we use the snake draft, but the auction draft does seem pretty interesting.

I liked the categories we used last year. I liked the H2H, but I’m cool if we use Rotisserie

I’d prefer unlimited trades, a maximum 3 waiver moves per week (just so people can’t spam). Don’t allow any trades/waivers for the playoffs.

I think we had two full lines at every forward and D position, plus a goalie and three bench spots last year. That made fo a nice setup.

1) May I please play?
2) Regular Snake Draft
3) head to head
4) Don’t care
5) 6 forwards, 4 D, 2 goalies, 3 bench, 2ir,
6) Aquarius

I’ll be in again. And I’m solemnly swear that I won’t take Toskala in the 10th round again just to make a crappy joke.

And with a 20 team format I really liked the 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1 Utility, 1 Bench, 1 Goalie team setup we used last year.

1) Yes
2) Snake draft
3) Head to head
4) 2 moves a week, max 8
5) 6f 4d 2g 2bn 2 ir

1. I would like to play
2. I like standard drafting
3. I prefer rotisserie, but see the majority prefers h2h. Don’t mind h2h, love it during season, just not big fan of the playoff system.
4. Don’t care
5. I would like a Util spot, but mostly I’m just counting on Kyle Wellwood to sign with a team so he can fill all my positions.

liked everything about last year’s format, although i agree there should be a max moves per week (2 or 3), unlimited moves for the season.

and no $$ again this year?

Yes, I’m interested.
Standard draft, head to head format. 20 teams in 2 divisions
2 C, 1 LW, 1 RW, 1 Wing, 3 D, 1 G, 2 IR, 3 Bench
no limits per season on moves, max 3 moves per week.

By the way, if you guys want a cheap win over me, schedule the draft between the 17th to the 26th. I won’t be sober on any of those days and not around for the first half.

Oh shit, I just realizied that I can renew last years league and probably pass the Commissionership on to whoever its going to be.

I would like in.
I like to read trashtalk.
I also fully anticipate my season mirroring the Leafs again this year.
So… PLAYOFFS!!!1

1. absolutely.

2-5) don’t care. I’ve done a variety of fantasy league styles and don’t really have a preference as to how they’re run – although unlimited waivers would be nice.

2. Auction Draft, although I’m concerned that contestants will excessively overpay for the elite and will have very little for the rest of their teams.

3. Head to Head sounds good.

4. 2 Trades/Moves per month. Simpler the better.

5. Not too concerned here, either.

I’m stoked to be apart of such a fantastic group of hockey fans!

I’m in and have no opinion on technical questions except that if it works out somehow, the bottom feeders in each division last year should get first pick in order of low ranking, just for the first round, of course.
And it would also be interesting if we designated a draft round as all-goalie in the first 5 rounds, like the third or something.
And I want a prize for most roster moves in the season, just to piss Karina off. :)

1. Absolutelyindeed.
2. Draft, though no complaints with auction.
3. Head-to-head. Keeps people involved. Definitely needs a mix of ratio and counting stats, and ideally nothing too gimmicky.
4. Generous limit to prevent streaming only.
5. No real preference. Standard Yahoo setup.

1: Yes
2: Standard draft
3: Head to Head scoring. HITS, blocked shots, G, A, SHP, PIM, Shots, SV%, GAA
4. Don’t care.
5. Not too concerned here, either.

Q1: Yes, I’m in!
Q2: Standard sounds good.
Q3: Head to Head.
Q4: Doesn’t matter to me.
Q5: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2G, 4BN, 1IR

Q1: Yes, I’d love to have a shot to improve on last year’s 11th (?) place finish.
Q2: Either or, but probably prefer standard
Q3: Either or, but probably prefer H2H
Q4: Don’t care
Q5: Don’t really care about this either. Default settings are fine with me.

Love fantasy hoceky
2. Either is cool.
3. Head 2 Head
4,5….standard Yahoo rules seem fair……..

Prepare to be pwned

Put me in coach.

1. i would play fo-sho
2. either is fine
3. H2H
4. dont care.
5. just sign me up!!!!!

ready to kick some electronic a**

1) I’m in
2) Regular Draft
3) Fantasy Points
4/5) Standard rules, or whatever everyone else decides.

1. YES!
2. I’m fine with last year’s format. Head to head scoring is much better. I also expect to have a much better idea about how things work this time round.
3. I’d need to know the date and time of the draft a couple of weeks in advance so I can arrange to get the night off work.

1. I’m in
2. Snake Draft
3. I don’t care with head to head or points, but I’d like to play head to head for fun.

4/5) Don’t care but let us know well in advance.

head to head scoring sounds good. I’’d like a live draft, since smack talk is great. Auction sounds like way too much preparation for me.

2. Standard snake draft – the auction is new and it frightens me.

3. H2H – I will probably be in enough rotisserie’s as it is and they are very time consuming.

4. No trade limit – Depending on how many players you need to draft/play, I would consider restricting moves. If there are still ‘top two’ lines players readily available on the waiver, I would limit moves to probably 2 per week. If there are pretty much only 3rd line guys available, the limit matters less. GAA, SV% SO G A PPpts PIM’s +/- and I would like to have one of the two new stats this year – blocked shots or hits. Adds an extra dimension to your draft, not all about picking the most productive point-getters.

Yes +/- is pretty janky, but I find that short handed points is more BS luck than drafting skill.

5. For a 20 team league I would have a draft for 15 players: 2 goalies, 4 D-men, 2 from each forward position, a utility and two bench. One IR is sufficient.

I’d be a commish if needed.

Quick count – close to 60 teams already.

2.H2H
3. Snake Draft
4. I like the idea of 1 move a week. Sometimes you take a chance on a player that maybe has some injury history but also has good upside. There should be an element of risk vs. reward.
5. 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 2G, 2bench, 1IR

Do I have your permission to steal this idea and use it elsewhere?

I mean, it’s not like I’ve never invited a blog community to join a Yahoo league together, but I haven’t done so in a couple of years and this post would obviously represent my inspiration for doing it this year.

If you want a blues fan in your draft I’m down. Just go ahead and copy skinnyfishes answer and put it here. Live drafting is definitely the way to go.

1: Yes
2: Standard snaking draft
3: Head to Head scoring. G, A, PPP, SHP, PIM, Shots. SV%, GAA, SO
4: Unlimited trading though commish approved; max 2 moves per week; unlimited for season.
5: 2 Forwards per position, 4 defensemen, 2 goalies. 3 bench spots and 2 IR spots

I haven’t posted here much but am a pretty active reader and hope to start posting more
too late to sign up?
Put me in!
just my two cents, but maybe a good way to do the trades would be to have a limit for the whole season, rather than week? like 15 a season or something

Depending on how many goalies, I would recommend a minimum of 2-3 goalie games per week.

I wanna play! But it’s my first time, so be gentle.

1. I’d love to be involved if that’s cool.
2. I prefer a traditional snake draft since I’m too stupid to get an auction right i’m sure.
3. Head to Head is my choice personally, but I can go roto. I tried it once…in college.
4. I don’t mind having a move limit but maybe cap it at 100 so you can still have fun. I wouldn’t put a cap on trades personally. Trades is excitin.
5. 6 fwds, 4 d, (2 util?) 2 IR. 1 or 2 goalies. In a 20 team league I think 1 goalie is reasonable to keep things competitive since, with 40 goalies drafted, some teams could end up with 2 starting goalies and some with a starter and a backup. Kinda sucks to feel like you have no chance as soon as the draft is over. But that’s just my opinion. Seems like I’m in the minority on that so 2 goalies is cool with me. I’m up for anything…anything.

Count me in. Snakey, preferably. I’m open to new and random things, so the rest of the makeup is fine by me.

Go here http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2010/9/2/1665741/ppp-phantasy-puck-now-with-google and fill out the form linked.

I’m in again if there’s room.

I completed the google form but haven’t had a chance to read all comments in this post[summer on Yukon coast means lousy interwebs connection] but here are my other comments.

I like bigger rosters with plenty of bench spots. It is in the later picks and mid-season obscure pickups that I think one shows one’s hockey sense.

20 teams in a league is too many to have sufficient goaltending available. Even 16 teams in a league makes goaltending pretty scarce. The larger the number of teams the fewer goaltending stats should be used and the fewer games teams should need to dress goalies.

However, I’ll play in almost any format.

looks like i’m too late! shit piss!

Did it, am I in? lol I want to play.