Comments for Salary Caps, Pt. 2: Real vs. Fantasy Salaries at http://hockey.dobbersports.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://hockey.dobbersports.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:51:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4373-salary-caps-pt-2-real-vs-fantasy-salaries#comment-19386 Im in one auction-keeper and its my favourite league by far. The draft is more fun than a normal draft. Trades are more interesting. Its amazing. - duducks Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:43:35 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4373-salary-caps-pt-2-real-vs-fantasy-salaries#comment-19382 nice piece.in my league(dynasty keeper) there is 16 team (you choose wich organisation)we use the nhl salary cap and the players salary ,heres the trick at the end of the season all players are identify as first,second or third liner depending on how many points they did.thats how in our salary cap era, we draft and protect our players we have also to respect the forwards position so, in the end it's pretty hard to keep syd,malkin,and ovy in the same team.You probably figured out already sid is set to become a 3 liner next year.why i'm i telling tou that because of the last rule: you can not have more then 3 firtsliner , second liner,but up to 8 third liner including the farm, its fun its almost real and trading is as difficult as real life 1ER TRIO 56 POINTS ET PLUS(firstliner) 2E TRIO ENTRE 42 POINTS & 55 POINTS(secondliner) 3E TRIO 41 POINTS ET MOINS(thirdliner) GARDIEN #1 55 POINTS ET + GARDIEN #2 54 POINTS ET - thanks for reading me - pierre Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:38 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4373-salary-caps-pt-2-real-vs-fantasy-salaries#comment-19376 I started a new dynasty league this season. For the start of the league all cap hits are based on the real life ones. Once the contract expires the players becomes free agent (restricted/unrestricted) and every GM is entitled to send in an offer sheet (restricted) or make a bid on the player (unrestricted). I created my own website to keep track on all this (hopefully everything works out as it supposed to be since I put months work into it). Ofcourse it will take a lot of time and effort to take care of all this, but I am happy to do it and it is a lot of fun. Plus it keeps the offseason interesting...normally those 4 months non-hockey kills me!! - Ron Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:52 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4373-salary-caps-pt-2-real-vs-fantasy-salaries#comment-19375 LOVE this style. only way to do it, otherwise you may totally diminish a good players value because of a stupid GM (never seems to be a shortage of those). Ran this style for 18yrs, would find it odd using NHL salaries. Its a little more work, but it really forces you to do your homework- trying to find that rookie or breakout player that will give you great value. We had waivers with minimum contracts (and an increasing cap after the draft incase you had to replace injured cheaper players with waiver pickups). It also allowed people to draft their favourite players/teams.... at their own expense (the veterans learned quickly NOT to wear your favourite teams jersey to the draft- the newbies would always overpay for their favourites.) - Larry Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:18:24 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/hoos/4373-salary-caps-pt-2-real-vs-fantasy-salaries#comment-19374 I'm currently the commish of a dynasty league and we use real life NHL player [i]salaries[/i], not cap hits. This was a well thought out decision on my part and basically came as result of these ridiculous front loaded contracts that are becoming the norm. To me it wasn't fair to let the guys who drafted the likes of Kovalchuk, Zetterberg, Luongo, Hossa etc, etc get their star players and the pretty cap hit that goes along with them. In the NHL you're tied to those bad contracts, in fantasy world, you only have to keep the guy around as long as you want, there really are no "contracts" (unless you want to get extremely technical with your league). So for example when Kovalchuk turns 35 and those numbers start to dip, it's easy, you just dump him. You got his nice $6.6M cap hit while he was in his prime and then toss him aside when he's not worth it anymore. By using the actual salaries, you're forced to take Kovalchuks $10M+ hit if you want him in his prime. Than when he's older and less productive, well his salary will reflect that and he doesn't become the Jay Boumeester that no one wants. That all said, we will eventually be implementing league generated salaries as I'm not very fond of getting stuck with the bad decisions of some NHL GMS. Fantrax as you mentioned is a great site, they have a ton of customizations to make things like salary generation and tracking easy. With them [i]finally[/i] implementing H2H formats (which to me is the only way to play fantasy hockey)I think you're going to see that site take off in popularity as it really is far superior to anything else out there. - Kyle Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:57:41 +0100