This year I did not do much home work in the drafting this year. My strategy is stay away from injuries. Players with no injuries from previous years tends to play more careful have have less injuries in the future. No matter how good the player is, I got no points if he is injured. It is better play safe than sorry. I rather have an average player who play every games in the season than have a excellent player who is out half the season. Here is my 2009 fantasy hockey line up.
Kiprusoff, Miikka (G – Calgary)
Pavelski, Joe (C – San Jose)
Sedin, Henrik (C – Vancouver)
Sedin, Daniel (LW – Vancouver)
Bieksa, Kevin (D – Vancouver)
Streit, Mark (D – Anaheim)
Krejci, David (C – Boston)
Doan, Shane (RW – Phoenix)
Timonen, Kimmo (D – Pittsburgh)
Boyes, Brad (C – St. Louis)
Hartnell, Scott (LW – Pittsburgh)
Zajac, Travis (C – New Jersey)
Michalek, Milan (RW – Ottawa)
McCabe, Bryan (D – Florida)
Nabokov, Evge (G – San Jose)
Every year, we have a fantasy hockey pool at work. Last year, I use pure statistic to select my players and I end up having the lowest score. I guess performance of hockey players just like stocks, past result does not always imply future growth. Some of my friends really into hockey. They are a walking hockey database. Not only that they know all the players and their teams by heart, they also keep track of who is injured, who has been traded or even who had just become a dad. Crying baby at night probably affect the game performance. I believe they hockey knowledge give them an advantage in the hockey pool. Anyways, I am too busy and lazy to do my own research, so I end up using statistic again this year. It is much easier to look at numbers than find out everything about the players from sports news website. Here is my team this year:
Henrik Zetterberg (Det – F)
Ryan Getzlaf (Anh – F)
Olli Jokinen (Pho – F)
Shane Doan (Pho – F)
Rick Nash (Cls – F)
Alexander Frolov (LA – F)
Nathan Horton (Fla – F)
Patrick Marleau (SJ – F)
Mark Streit (NYI – D)
Lubomir Visnovsky (Edm – D)
Jay Bouwmeester (Fla – D)
Bryan McCabe (Fla – D)
Henrik Lundqvist (NYR – G)
Marc-Andre Fleury (Pit – G)
This time we are more prepared than last year when we are drafting the players. All of us bring our laptop to search the players on line when it is our turn to pick the player. We have 9 teams in total, it took us almost 1.5 hours to finish the drafting. The hockey season is starting this week, following our fantasy hockey team and bragging on who is winning would be a regular feature in our lunch coversations.
蘋果日報作者 – 陳馬：書評，影評，動漫，旅行，哲學筆記