I agree with that comment. I don't want predictions that will be complete hits or complete misses. My problem is that I have too much confidence in you, Dobber!

Somehow, I always pick the ones that were/are complete busts (e.g. O'Sully last year, Zherdev this year). Both were highly touted in their respective guides. I do realize that you cannot be right on all of them. But, like stated previously, I would also prefer predictions that are more down to Earth. That would be my only critique about the guide, as everything else is pretty awesome!

And, of course, that Parise injury is not something that can be predicted. So, yeah, that guy is pretty stupid!

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9-Team Keeper League Points Only
Weekly Start 12F 6D 2G

F: Malkin Giroux Neal Parise Lucic Benn Voracek Ennis Turris Clowe Little Berglund JVR Boedker Tlusty Conacher
D: Edler Fowler Gonchar Ellis Zidlicky Salo Martin Nikitin
G: Schneider Smith Bryzgalov

Dobber, as long as you man up for the ones that don't come in every year and explain your reasoning why you thought it was a good idea and why it turned out to not be then I am 200% behind you, accountability is big in this business I think, even with douchebags like this writing you for nonsense. We're all adults here (mostly) so we should be able to think for ourselves and not take every word as gospel anyway, but rather use your ideas and tips to supplement our own. I think it takes alotta balls to make bold predictions when you know from the get-go that you're gonna be grossly wrong on some of them. I prefer that to playing it safe personally, safe is just watered down numbers to protect your own ass, I'd rather you take an educated chance each year and tell us who you think will blow up and let us gauge it for ourselves.

The only danger is that we must ALWAYS try to avoid the hive mind mentality here, we tend to all have certain preconceptions about certain players based off experiences on these forums, and that is the only real danger I think...so dont let that sway you if you observe evidence to the contrary, if you have a dissenting opinion and you back it up well, that's gold IMO.

cheers

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P=1 DPts=1.2 +/-=.32 PIM=.08 PPP=.4 SHP=.6 S=.015 Blk=.2 Hit=.08
W=2 OTL=.8 GA=-.64 SV=.08 SO=3

Pro (23 keep 17)
C- Filppula,Turris,Stastny,Backstrom
D-Boyle,MDZ,Karlsson,Robidas,Goligoski,Schenn,Seiden berg
G-Anderson,Hiller,Rinne
LW-Malone,Parise,Rolston,Eriksson,Ruutu
RW-Alfredsson,Callahan,Setoguchi,Brown,Ryder,Vrbata

Farm (9 keep all, max 200 GP, 100 Goalies)
Colborne,Leblanc,Loktionov,Perreault,Tangradi,Blum ,Poulin,Markstrom

I bought the guide.. and ya I read that you had sully for x amount of points and Zherdev for whatever... I could use these... but I didnt agree.. so I opted not to draft them..

its the Dobber guide.. not the the Dobber do this and i guarantee you to win your pool! Gotta go with your own thoughts sometimes.

People that send in an email are just ridiculous

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14 team Salary Cap league
NHL cap + 20 million
Scoring Cats - G, A, P, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG
Goalie Cats - W, SV%, SO, GAA, SVS Made
Start - 3 C, RW, LW, F, 4 D, 2 UTIL, 2 G

C - Getzlaf, E Staal, Marleau, Elias, Eller
LW - Pacioretty, Vanek, Dubinsky, Raymond, Glencross
RW - Perry, Kane, Pominville, Simmonds, Clarkson, Stewart, Dupuis
D - Chara, Muzzin, Gardiner, Irwin
G - Lundqvist, Schneider, Biron

Anyway, as Dobber says all the time : He's right 52% of the time. Not 100%

Get your own mind.

Damn I really thought Zherdev would be a stud this year I drafted him high in TWO pools (and that's unfortunately true)... have to stop thinking Dobber is god.

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Points Only - 12F 6D 2G weekly

Players:
F: Malkin, Backstrom, Getzlaf, Toews, Datsyuk, Heatley, Marleau, Carter, Duchene, Eriksson, Seguin, Ribeiro, S.Kostitsyn, Fleisch., Gerbe, Okposo, Paajarvi, Antropov
D: Yandle, Dougthy, Shatt., Carlson, Quincey, Kronwall, White, Franson, Spurgeon
G: Lund., Lehtonen, Schneider, Rask, Elliott, Raycroft

Prospects:
F: Tarasenko, Tatar, Jurco, Kucherov, Khokhlachev
D: Voynov
G: Lehner

Playing one other league (8 teams, 30 keepers, pts only)

Get XML players' stats from www.webhockeypool.com

If it wasn't for Dobber I would have never picked Skinner up and he's the only young guy holding my RW together right now. I've become a much better fantasy hockey GM since following this site. Sure, I may have been influenced to pick up some guys who didn't pan out, but homeruns like Skinner more than make up for it.

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14 Team 22-man H2H Keeper League (Keep 15 - 4th Year)

G,A,+/-,PIM,PPP,SHP,GWG,SOG,Hits, W,GAA,SA,SV%,SHO

Dress:
3C,3LW,3RW,1F,5D,2G,5BN,3IR

C - Malkin (RW), Backstrom, E Staal, Stoll
LW - Zetterberg (C), Datsyuk (C), Whitney, Latendresse, Ruutu (C)
RW - Backes (C), Clowe (LW), Perry, Skinner(RW), Frolik (C)
D - Chara, Letang, Shattenkirk, Carle, Girardi, Giordano
G - Rask, Schneider, Fleury

100% agree. Great job!!!

So if Dobber said O'Sully and Zherdev would both get to 55 pts, then they only got 5, would that make you feel any better? Either way it's a miss.

Hey I was just giving Dobber a hard time. If you want a different analysis, go buy the Hockey News mag or one of the other ones, they all have retarded predictions for one player or another. I won my league for the first time last year and a big part of it was due to this site helping me grab middle-of-the-road guys like Pavelski and Sharp who used to go unnoticed and ignored in our pool. Not anymore - they were prime assets at the draft this year because my whole pool has gotten smarter.

I go black or white on about 10% of the guys, if that. It just really sticks out because they are my home runs or my egg-on-face.
But I think most guys don't go black or white on anything - not even 1%. And that's what I have a problem with.

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14 Team Keeper, points only, best 12 skaters 2 dman 2 G count. Playoffs count.
F - Crosby, C.Smith, Wheeler, Parenteau, Hudler, Clowe, Grabovski, Atkinson, Frolik, S. Kostitsyn, Marchand, Peverley, Tavares, Read, Brouwer, Bickell, Gionta, Setoguchi
G - Anderson, Hiller, Markstrom, Brodeur
D - Letang, Del Zotto, I. White, Kronwall, Brodin, Nikitin

LOL, I think Dobber and some of the other guys write for the hockey news

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10 Team Yahoo H2H - Keep 8 (No Prospect Team) - G,A,+/-,PPP,PIMS,HITS SOG,GWG/W,GAA,SV%,SO
C: Tavares, Backes, Zetterberg
LW: Hall, Landeskog
RW: Gaborik, Purcell
D: Byfuglien, Subban, Muzzin, Beauchemin
G: Price, Rask
BN: Yakupov, Huberdeau, Setoguchi, Stempniak
IR: Lindback

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