2016 Fantasy Hockey BIF

Welcome back everyone that participated last year, and welcome aboard to new folks!

As of right now, we are right at ten folks. I do have wishes to expand to twelve teams though, so first two BA's that have not previously reached out about joining that can BM me their email addresses get in.

Rule are fairly simple from a fantasy standpoint. Win the championship, win beer. Place second - fourth, win less beer. Place fifth or worse, you are shipping a minimum of 88 oz. of beer.

The league is a standard format H2H league with playoffs culminating the week prior to the final week of the regular season. Stat categories will be "standard-ish" with a few wild card stats to be included once we have a poll to find out what everyone prefers.

Draft, ideally, will take place around October 1st. We will also try to come to a best case scenario consensus on the draft date and time as well.

 

I'll add this site as well so it doesn't get buried in posts:

http://www.dailyfaceoff.com

Site is a big help when Yahoo can't accurately update starting goalies or day to day skater issues / injuries.

 

You're in - I'll shoot you an invite

 

Last 3 invites sent out. If possible, join up as soon as you can (if not already done) so we can vote on a few items.

Up for vote - additional scoring categories, waiver wire rules and prize distro.

Looks like we have support for 12 teams this year so we'll shore up a few things to reflect and/or take advantage of the addition of two teams.

 

Alrighty folks, this league is officially full and therefore closed.

To everyone in, I'll be posting a few polls on the Yahoo site pretty soon but that's gonna be about all I'm going to use the Yahoo message board for.

Long story short, be on the lookout for notifications from Yahoo about polls.

 

Good afternoon everyone - Two polls up on the Yahoo site; prize distro and draft date/time. Head over and vote when you have a chance.

 

Polls have closed, draft date set for Sunday, October 2nd at 8:00 PM (2000 hrs. EST). I have also set up the scoring categories in order to make pre-ranking a tad easier.

Last thing that needs to get settled is the distro plan. I've tentatively adopted the 4, 2, 1 and 1 (Presidential Trophy) plan but am still troubled with the extra box scenario if PT winner places in top three. For this reason, I am leaving the consolation bracket winner scenario on the table (instead of PT winner) to take up that lingering box.

*OR*

We proceed with the above plan, but if the President's Trophy winner places in top three, consolation winner just doesn't have to ship, but doesn't win anything either. Kind of like a contingency.

Assuming we do this 4, 2, 1.......1 plan, what's everyone else's thoughts on the potential extra box?

 

Couple good games already in the pre-tournament games. The USA Canada games were obviously great, but the RUS v. CZE game i saw Friday was pretty good as well.!

 

I've done a few public league drafts and realized quite a bit with regard to trends

 

There's a note that says week 1 stats may change when corrections are applied on Monday the 24th, so looks like it will be a long first week.