Ah, okay. To be honest, I've never looked at those rankings. After a mock draft, I look at the team I wound up with mostly to see how I might want to tweak my list. Who's too low, who doesn't need to be so high for me to still get a good chance at getting them, etc.
I do look at the numbers for all the guys who were drafted onto my team, because even though I'm pretty familiar with who the good players are, I don't know all the numbers of every player. I see if the numbers look better or worse than I thought and maybe I adjust that player on my list.
As for goalies, the way I look at it, there are a handful of absolute studs (3, maybe 4). If you really want them, you should rank them about where you could take them in the second round (between 10 and 20). Then you should have a bit larger handful (maybe 5 or 6) of really good guys--guys who will do well in all three common categories and get you a shutout or two--whom you will rate around the 4th or 5th round (so, 40-60).
Then, put all the other goalies you could possibly want in the 6th round (60-70). There will be a lot of guys in this last group. Guys who may not have the best SV% or GAA but who are decent and will get a lot of wins (Frederick Andersen, Jaroslav Halak) because they play behind a great team. Or, maybe it's a guy who plays on a team with a great defensive system, but they can't score, so his stats will be great, but his wins might not be amazing.
Given the size of our leagues, the worst you will wind up with is one guy from the second group and one guy from the third group (and maybe a third guy from the 3rd group if Yahoo insists on choosing three goalies for you--you can waive one for a free agent skater later if you don't want to carry 3 goalies).
There are other strategies to use, of course, and you don't have to do it this way, but this can help ease your mind about the level of concern you need to have about where you're drafting goalies.
And never forget that someone is ALWAYS going to be a surprise, your rosters aren't set in stone, and shuffling around after the draft--whether through trades or free agency--is a huge part of the fun of the game!
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Re: Fantasy Hockey
From: (Anonymous)Ah, okay. To be honest, I've never looked at those rankings. After a mock draft, I look at the team I wound up with mostly to see how I might want to tweak my list. Who's too low, who doesn't need to be so high for me to still get a good chance at getting them, etc.
I do look at the numbers for all the guys who were drafted onto my team, because even though I'm pretty familiar with who the good players are, I don't know all the numbers of every player. I see if the numbers look better or worse than I thought and maybe I adjust that player on my list.
As for goalies, the way I look at it, there are a handful of absolute studs (3, maybe 4). If you really want them, you should rank them about where you could take them in the second round (between 10 and 20). Then you should have a bit larger handful (maybe 5 or 6) of really good guys--guys who will do well in all three common categories and get you a shutout or two--whom you will rate around the 4th or 5th round (so, 40-60).
Then, put all the other goalies you could possibly want in the 6th round (60-70). There will be a lot of guys in this last group. Guys who may not have the best SV% or GAA but who are decent and will get a lot of wins (Frederick Andersen, Jaroslav Halak) because they play behind a great team. Or, maybe it's a guy who plays on a team with a great defensive system, but they can't score, so his stats will be great, but his wins might not be amazing.
Given the size of our leagues, the worst you will wind up with is one guy from the second group and one guy from the third group (and maybe a third guy from the 3rd group if Yahoo insists on choosing three goalies for you--you can waive one for a free agent skater later if you don't want to carry 3 goalies).
There are other strategies to use, of course, and you don't have to do it this way, but this can help ease your mind about the level of concern you need to have about where you're drafting goalies.
And never forget that someone is ALWAYS going to be a surprise, your rosters aren't set in stone, and shuffling around after the draft--whether through trades or free agency--is a huge part of the fun of the game!
I hope this helped!