A fantasy pool update

by James Mirtle on Jan 12, 2009 12:43 PM CST Comment 20 comments

There's been some shifting in the standings lately as we head into Week 15 of the Hockey Blogger Invitational, but no one can catch Tha Gnomes of Five Hole Fanatics fame.

My guess is Kent has a first-round playoff bye already locked up:

Rank	Team	W-L-T	Pct	Pts
1	Tha Gnomes	111-54-17	0.657	239
2	The Fab Forecheckers	95-62-25	0.591	215
3	Mirtle's Merry Men	94-67-21	0.574	209
4	Islanders Army	93-68-21	0.569	207
5	The Petes	90-67-25	0.563	205
6	Sharkspage	91-71-20	0.555	202
7	Matt of the Battle	87-74-21	0.536	195
8	JapersRink All-Bums	87-79-16	0.522	190
9	Sleek's Battlebots	85-77-20	0.522	190
10	The Alcoholic Army	86-79-17	0.519	189
11	Spector's Spudheads	78-76-28	0.505	184
12	Covered in Chris	74-86-22	0.467	170
13	Kings of Men	69-93-20	0.434	158
14	Denomme's Danglers	65-92-25	0.426	155
15	Pension Plan Puppets	63-101-18	0.396	144
16	Puck Daddy	60-98-24	0.396	144
17	Sasquatch Watchers	61-102-19	0.387	141
18	Mighty Mallards	60-103-19	0.382	139

I'm plugging along despite having both (!) Senators goalies this season. Ty Conklin's been a life saver, I tell you, but I need Carey Price back from injury.

Kent's team is cleaning up in part due to his savvy pickup of Steve Mason when he was recalled from the minors. His top scorers lately have been Alex Semin, Todd Bertuzzi, Dustin Byfuglien, Andrei Kostitsyn and Eric Staal.

The Forechecker's always tough in this pool, too. He ended up with Ovechkin, the top-ranked fantasy player in the league, and also has Rob Blake, Alex Kovalev and the Panthers tandem in goal.

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I’m impressed that I’ve been able to stay above .500 despite losing Luongo and Leclaire (the latter both to injury and ineffectiveness).

My Gs right now are Jonathan Quick and Karri Ramo, for cryin’ out loud!

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by J.P. on Jan 12, 2009 1:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Actually, I just picked up Kostitsyn in a trade, so he hasn’t played a game for me yet. Perry and Bertuzzi were out for part of the week last week too.

I’ve gotten good value from late picks thus far: M. Koivu, Semin, Miettinen, Byfuglien, etc. Im pretty much carried by good goaltending, though, and I completely lucked out with the Mason pick-up.

by Kent Wilson on Jan 12, 2009 1:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

can't help but notice...

how far down our friends at Pension Plan Puppets are in the standings…what’s their excuse???

by tbell61 on Jan 12, 2009 1:32 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

They’re still trying to talk Brian Burke into taking over the team.

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by J.P. on Jan 12, 2009 1:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

ZING!

by Afino on Jan 12, 2009 2:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

BWAHAHAHAHA

JFJ got ahold of my login and changed the password.

I can’t believe that I am ahead of 3 teams. I have been very delinquent in updating my roster and Jose Theodore is my only goalie.

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by PPP on Jan 12, 2009 2:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

They’re facing relegation to the B Pool, too.

by James Mirtle on Jan 12, 2009 3:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think you mean that PPP will be drafting John Tavares.

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by Chemmy on Jan 12, 2009 3:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Bingo

I get first pick next year right?

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by PPP on Jan 12, 2009 7:49 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not a part of the PPP fantasy hockey team, blame PPP.

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by Chemmy on Jan 12, 2009 3:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

What about the other league ...

I’m in second in that one! Boo ya.

I have a blog too! www.scottyhockey.com
Let's Go Rangers!

by Scotty Hockey on Jan 12, 2009 2:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Update!

Mirtle how about the b/c division updates!

"It's a great day for hockey" - BBJ

by jealous broadcaster on Jan 12, 2009 2:11 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

No one wants to read about how I’m beating you goofs. :-)

by James Mirtle on Jan 12, 2009 2:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Honestly, I think my team would be higher in the standings if I didn’t do a single Add/Drop all year. Next year I’m doing the live draft and then going into a voluntary fantasy coma.

http://www.battleofcali.com/

by Earl Sleek on Jan 12, 2009 2:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

What about your hockey Yahoo pools James? Do you fare well?

by Fred Poulin on Jan 12, 2009 2:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

This is a Yahoo pool. There are three: The Blogger Invitational and then two Open Invitationals, the B and C Pools.

I’m in 3rd, 1st and 2nd out of 18, 20 and 20 teams.

by James Mirtle on Jan 12, 2009 3:02 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And he’s humble too!

;)

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by Chemmy on Jan 12, 2009 3:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

P.S. PPP’s team is horrible.

by James Mirtle on Jan 12, 2009 3:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I can’t deny that I took some gambles that didn’t work out.

Also, I had to leave halfway through the draft to get to BMO Field.

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by PPP on Jan 12, 2009 7:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m poised to make run in the second half … As long as Petr Budaj leads the Avalanche to glory instead of Andrew Raycroft.

by Denommania on Jan 12, 2009 5:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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