I have my cash-pool draft tomorrow and put together my own ranking sheet to prepare for the draft. Thought I'd post it here for anyone who cares. Would love to hear your thoughts if you guys think I'm completely out to lunch on any of my rankings.

Format is 12 teams, 8F / 5D / 2G. Goals/Assists = 1, Defense Goals = 2, Wins = 2, SO = 1

The "Pts" category refers to the amount of fantasy points each player generated in our format last season.

BOLD picks are guys I'm targeting specifically... either because I think they will have breakouts or because they represent good value picks based on their under-performance last year

Forwards:
Rank Forwards Team Pts

Tier 1
1 Crosby PIT 37
2 Malkin PIT 120
3 Stamkos TB 107
4 Giroux PHI 98
5 Tavares NYI 85
6 Sedin D VAN 71
7 Sedin H VAN 81
8 Kovalchuk NJ 93
9 St. Louis TB 80

Tier 2
10 Seguin BOS 72
11 Eberle EDM 78
12 Nugent Hopkins EDM 55
13 Parise MIN 76
14 Neal PIT 85
15 Ovechkin WAS 69
16 Gaborik NYR 81
17 Kane CHI 69
18 Toews CHI 59
19 Staal E CAR 72
20 Kessel TOR 85
21 Backstrom WAS 45

The Rest
22 Datsyuk DET 71
23 Iginla CGY 68
24 Perry ANA 66
25 Getzlaf ANA 59
26 Spezza OTT 89
27 Thornton SJ 77
28 Hossa CHI 77
29 Richards NYR 68
30 Benn DAL 65
31 Hall EDM 58
32 Nash NYR 61
33 Ryan ANA 58
34 Eriksson DAL 76
35 Zetterberg DET 70
36 Semin CAR 56
37 Sharp CHI 74
38 Pominville BUF 78
39 Kopitar (inj) LA 77
40 Elias NJ 81
41 Whitney DAL 80
42 Moulson NYI 72
43 Hartnell PHI 70
44 Lupul TOR 70
45 Marleau SJ 66
46 Kane WPG 59
47 Brown LA 58
48 Franzen DET 59
49 Staal J CAR 50
50 Koivu M MIN 47
51 Skinner CAR 45
52 Duchene COL 33


Defense:
Rank Defense Team Pts

Tier 1
1 Karlsson OTT 97
2 Doughty LA 47
3 Letang PIT 54
4 Pietrangelo STL 64
5 Weber NSH 68
6 Byfuglien WPG 65

Tier 2
7 Chara BOS 64
8 Edler VAN 62
9 Green WSH 11
9 Boyle SJ 58
10 Del Zotto NYR 51

The Rest
11 Yandle PHX 54
12 Phaneuf TOR 57
13 OEL PHX 46
14 Johnson CBJ 52
15 Wideman CGY 58
16 Streit NYI 55
17 Campbell FLA 57
18 Goligoski DAL 39
19 Keith CHI 44
20 Carle TB 42
21 Suter MIN 53
21 Bieksa VAN 52
22 Subban MTL 43
23 Shattenkirk STL 53
24 Burns (inj) SJ 50


Goalies:
Rank Goalies Team Pts

Tier 1
1 Quick LA 95
2 Rinne NSH 105
3 Fleury PIT 102
4 Lundqvist NYR 96
5 Bryzgalov PHI 76
6 Rask BOS 27
7 Miller BUF 77
8 Niemi SJ 90

Tier 2
8 Smith PHX 96
9 Kiprusoff CGY 82
9 Lehtonen DAL 83
10 Ward CAR 76

The Rest
11 Brodeur NJ 77
12 Price MTL 67
13 Howard DET 88
14 Hiller ANA 71
15 Anderson OTT 84
16 Schneider VAN 46
17 Lindback TB 13
18 Holtby WAS 9
19 Luongo VAN 74

looks good but Spezza should be in the list somewhere. Should outpoint many of those players.Also St. Louis might be too high.

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I've got Spezza at 26th, just outside the 2nd tier cut-off. You're probably right in that he deserves to be higher, but I've just been screwed by him so many times over the years that now it's personal.

edit: I'll add the rest of the list to my post.