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... "Cory Stillman should be your first bench draft pick this year. After your starting lineup is filled out, take him. This would only apply to knowledgeable leagues, where everyone knows he is out to start the year. I imagine most public leagues will Stillman drafted in the first ten rounds because of ignorance… In which case trade for him on the cheap after the draft or pick him up and IR him once he is dropped." - Sean Allen. [moderator - insert link to his article here please]
Nice advice. It brings up an opportunity I have to offer a trade in my deep keeper pool, and I'm looking forward to feedback.
A fellow poolie, in the "other" division (we have relegation), has posted on our forum that he'd trade off Ray Whitney and Scott Walker. (I already have Ladd, and he already has Stillman.)
I was thinking of not keeping Ladd until I read Sean's preview. (ty Sean) Now I'm thinking of going for some quality insurance by getting both Whitney and Walker -- I like 'em both, and I could use Scott's Ontario PIMs. By the time Stillman's back, at least one or two of the rookies on my 30-man roster should have popped their heads out of the whack-a-mole that is my team, if Whitney and/or Walker truly take a dump.
My bubble keepers that I hope to dangle include Pominville and Wideman -- Zherdev has to be signed by me to a LTC, or kept for only one more year (at low cost). Could 2 of those 3 get me Whitney and Walker, do you think?
9 categories: F-G, F-A, F-+/-, F-PIM, D-G, D-A, D-PIM, GAA, G-Pts (2*W+3*SO).
Thanks in advance,
Steffen
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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Steffen (9/11/2006)
... "Cory Stillman should be your first bench draft pick this year. After your starting lineup is filled out, take him. This would only apply to knowledgeable leagues, where everyone knows he is out to start the year. I imagine most public leagues will Stillman drafted in the first ten rounds because of ignorance… In which case trade for him on the cheap after the draft or pick him up and IR him once he is dropped." - Sean Allen. [moderator - insert link to his article here please]
Nice advice. It brings up an opportunity I have to offer a trade in my deep keeper pool, and I'm looking forward to feedback.
A fellow poolie, in the "other" division (we have relegation), has posted on our forum that he'd trade off Ray Whitney and Scott Walker. (I already have Ladd, and he already has Stillman.)
I was thinking of not keeping Ladd until I read Sean's preview. (ty Sean) Now I'm thinking of going for some quality insurance by getting both Whitney and Walker -- I like 'em both, and I could use Scott's Ontario PIMs. By the time Stillman's back, at least one or two of the rookies on my 30-man roster should have popped their heads out of the whack-a-mole that is my team, if Whitney and/or Walker truly take a dump.
My bubble keepers that I hope to dangle include Pominville and Wideman -- Zherdev has to be signed by me to a LTC, or kept for only one more year (at low cost). Could 2 of those 3 get me Whitney and Walker, do you think?
9 categories: F-G, F-A, F-+/-, F-PIM, D-G, D-A, D-PIM, GAA, G-Pts (2*W+3*SO).
Thanks in advance,
Steffen
The only probelm I foresee is putting too many eggs in one basket. I do see Ladd as the frontrunner for the prime position. He will get first crack and "should" run with it.
If he does exactly that it would relegate at least one of Walker and Whitney to the third line and make them not very fantasy useful.
Furthermore when Stillman comes back it pushes an additional player of the three to the third line, and while having two of Whitney, Ladd and Walker on the third line with Letowski will make that line a better threat - the lack of ice time will hurt them.
The issue is that - yes - you lock up the prime winger spot next to Staal for the bulk of the season, but you also roster two players that will take a big value hit when Stillman returns. Not even counting the fact that one of them is in the doghouse from day one.
Wideman - in a league that doesn't count defenseman +/- is going to be money in the bank (think 40+ points and a whack of PIMS). And Pominville is going to match or surpass the two Carolina wingers (Walker, Ladd or Whitney) that don't play on the first line.
Zherdev is the wild card here... If you do not think he will sign or don't want to take the risk that he won't, I would support trying to deal him and Pominville to get Whitney and Walker. But if you don't want to get burned by Zherdev signing and putting up points, stand pat.
Just don't deal Wideman to get this done.
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