1 00:00:03,759 --> 00:00:13,400 Welcome to Fantasy Hockey Life, presented by fan Tracks, your source of information 2 00:00:13,439 --> 00:00:17,519 and analysis to help you win your fantasy hockey league. Fuck off to step 3 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:23,839 on, stay lost. Here's your hosts, Jesse super Here and Victor Nuno. 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,120 Fantasy Hockey Life back once again to talk salary cap leagues. I'm Jesse's 5 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:33,479 Severe of fan Tracks and joining me from the other side of the glass, 6 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:38,640 Victor Nuno of Diaper Prospects. Victor, how you doing. I'm doing awesome, 7 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:41,880 Jesse. Yeah, I really enjoyed the first part of this. Hopefully 8 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,799 people found it useful, and now we're going to dig into some of the 9 00:00:44,799 --> 00:00:48,280 real meat and potatoes of the salary cap leagues. And I think we in 10 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:52,200 the last in show talked all about why it's super fun and why I used 11 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,000 to do it, and so hopefully people are getting that that bug in there, 12 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:00,200 you know, cry, I guess what is this saying? Get that 13 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,680 itch? There you go? They got that dog and that's what it is. 14 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,319 Victor, Yeah, this is going to be another fun talk about it. 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,640 The first episode was about the things you need to think about setting up 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,480 your league and the importance of thinking through those things at the beginning and what 17 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,519 kind of a league experience you want to have today is about how to handle 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,359 the draft, how to handle the roster construction, so the beginning phase and 19 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:32,159 the big picture phase of managing your team within that salary cap system. So 20 00:01:32,239 --> 00:01:36,560 that's what you can kind of expect to happen on this show today, and 21 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,280 it's a second of a third part series on this I hope people will go 22 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,760 back and look at it. Victor, we do have a discord. I 23 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:45,359 don't know, I don't you know. Have I told you lately that I 24 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,799 love you Discord. We appreciate all the people who join our discord to talk 25 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:53,920 hockey. I'm sure they will be here during the Stanley Cup playoffs when all 26 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:57,400 the excitement goes down to the NHL. And to join it, you just 27 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,000 have to email as Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot com or hit us up 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,439 on Twitter at fan hockey Life at Victor Nuno twelve and we will be sure 29 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:10,759 to get you in. There's some more Patreon tiers. We'll talk about the 30 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,520 patron perks at the end of this episode, but regardless, there is a 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,800 free access and we'd love to have people in it. Just ask we have 32 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,199 to give you a link. That's that's how you get in. We have 33 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,240 a lot to talk about, so Victor, I am going to scoot us 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,280 to the next part of this episode to talk about cap League draft and roster 35 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:43,919 lstraft. Victor, we have to now that we've set up our league, 36 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,639 now that we've figured out what we want to do, now we got to 37 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,759 figure out how I'm supposed to run my team. You've done this many times, 38 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,960 You've done this very well, So why don't you tell people about the 39 00:02:53,479 --> 00:03:00,000 about the startup draft. Definitely one of the most fun parts the setup draft 40 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,719 of people. You know, this is like the best part and it's fun, 41 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,879 but also you could totally screw this up, so you want to do 42 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,319 it right. You don't want to you don't want to regret it later. 43 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,319 And nobody is you know, nobody enjoys it when somebody's like, oh, 44 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,240 you know, I'm bailing, and you know you can give some whatever reason, 45 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,560 but the real reason is that you messed up your draft and now your 46 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,919 team sucks, and you don't want to do that to your league. You 47 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,800 don't want to do that to yourself. So you really have to figure out 48 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,240 how you're going to assess players and in salary cap leagues. It's been said 49 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,360 a million times, but it's true. It is all about value per dollar. 50 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,599 You know, whether it's points or categories, it's value per dollar. 51 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:46,319 It doesn't matter how much production the player has, it's relative to how much 52 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:51,319 they cost against your cap. So in the end, yes, you do 53 00:03:51,439 --> 00:03:57,439 need production, but you have to keep in mind that you're constrained by the 54 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,719 cap and so you can't just have way full production that is costing you way 55 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:06,319 too much. In a points league, you know, you'll have to calculate 56 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,479 this, and it's pretty easy. You know, you can take their points 57 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:15,919 from the previous season projected points. I love fantasy hockey geek. I've used 58 00:04:15,919 --> 00:04:19,560 it for years. It gives you a projected you can have it, you 59 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,560 know, from in the offseason. You can have it based on the previous 60 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:27,040 year, the previous couple of years, whatever you want, and then you 61 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,920 divide that projected production by the capit if you using capit or a v whatever. 62 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:35,680 So it's very easy to get that value per dollar. It might give 63 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:41,240 you some really weird number because you're dividing by you know, a small smallish 64 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:43,959 number by a very large number, where you can just multiply it by a 65 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,399 thousand or ten thousand or a million, whatever, and then it gives you 66 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:50,199 a nice, you know, easy to reference integer and you can just look 67 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:55,879 at the relative value of each player, and so that makes it clean. 68 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,879 It makes it easy. It's not just looking at how many fantasy points that 69 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:05,759 player has, but you're dividing it by a very easy number to look at. 70 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,839 And then now it kind of normalizes and standardizes it for everybody and you 71 00:05:10,879 --> 00:05:15,720 can much more easily compare apples to apples in a categories league. This is 72 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:18,759 a bit trickier, but I'll tell you what I do. And I feel 73 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,279 like this has kind of really helped me because before I found it really really 74 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,839 difficult. As I was saying, how do you in the previous episode, 75 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:30,680 how do you compare someone's hit some blocks to someone's shots and special teams points. 76 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:33,600 It's a little bit it's a little bit tricky. But what I do 77 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:38,319 is I use Fantasy Hockey Geek, which gives you a relative value score. 78 00:05:39,319 --> 00:05:45,800 They call it the Fantasy Hockey or f GV or something like that doesn't matter. 79 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,720 It gives you the relative value and then you can divide that by the 80 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:56,480 dollar amount that what that value is on fantasy hockeyek is basically all of that 81 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:02,160 players basically average, standard deviation from the average, and each category kind of 82 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,360 added up. And so the higher the number, the better, the farther 83 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:12,800 they are from the higher the higher they are from average, and each relative 84 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,279 category. So if you have somebody who's Fantasy hockey geek value is you know, 85 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:23,240 eighty, and another player is forty, that's a massive, massive increase. 86 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:29,199 But it's also a little bit hard because it isn't It doesn't separate players 87 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,240 sometimes enough. It kind of depends on your league and how many stats you 88 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:35,800 have, because for some leagues it might separate you very well and others it 89 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:41,519 might not. So I go a step further and I use a calculation that 90 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:48,000 I use to to what I think is better better give the relative scarcity and 91 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:55,040 value for each statum, and I that I just call the multiplier. So 92 00:06:55,399 --> 00:07:00,800 what I do is is basically take that value and I help and I multiply 93 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:08,000 it by a decimal that adds up to one, And basically that's giving a 94 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,639 little bit more value to those things that I think are scarce, like special 95 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,759 teams. Points are harder to acquire than hits. They're not as many players 96 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:20,480 to get them there, they don't happen as frequently, so that's something that 97 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,120 I would prioritize. Same, I would say with goals, right, a 98 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,319 little bit harder to get than even assists, right. And then players who 99 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,920 shoot a lot, it's a little bit harder to get those players who shoot 100 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:32,480 a lot as supposed to those who maybe hit a lot or block a lot. 101 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:39,439 So you can assign this multiplier and it helps you kind of get a 102 00:07:39,439 --> 00:07:46,680 little bit more granular with how much you're kind of separating each player by, 103 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,199 so that I think can help. So once you do any of those things, 104 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,480 there's lots of different ways that you can assign value, but you but 105 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:00,480 you need to boil it down to value per dollar. And then when you 106 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:07,160 get to that point, you need to hide the player's name and just look 107 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:13,279 at the worth per dollar, because sometimes we can get very carried away with 108 00:08:13,399 --> 00:08:18,000 oh, I want this player on my team. He's very good, you 109 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,839 know, whether he's fun to watch or whether he's exciting or whatever, or 110 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,240 whether in your other leagues he's you know, a strong producer. And that 111 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:30,000 may be the case. But if the cost is just too much, then 112 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,480 you have to be very very careful of that, so you got to decide 113 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:39,480 who the best players are. Um you also you can't miss out on stars, 114 00:08:39,879 --> 00:08:43,200 you know, but would you would you pass on Connor McDavid just because 115 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,519 the cap hit and go for say like and Andre Kuzmenko instead. Probably not, 116 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:52,080 but you know, in in later rounds you might. I think in 117 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,120 general, in the first few rounds, you need to get some of those 118 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:01,159 stars, and the stars that are on decent contracts are going to be the 119 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,960 best value. But you have to have some of those. But you also 120 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:07,720 can't have too many of those stars take up too much of your cap. 121 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:13,600 And also stars that are on elcs are great, and a lot of people 122 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:15,600 will talk about how, oh, yeah, you need all these guys on 123 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:18,559 elcs, and you do to some extent, but you also have to remember 124 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,279 that the stars that are on two level contracts elc's, they're gonna get paid 125 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:26,759 pretty soon, and if they're already producing like Gangbusters on their ELC, they're 126 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:31,879 going to be getting paid a ton on their actual contracts, So you have 127 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:35,440 to be careful of that. Some of the recent examples are really good contracts 128 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,960 or guys like Nathan McKinnon David Posternak. You know, they were the darlings 129 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:46,440 of these CAP leagues for so long because you're getting amazing production at very reasonable 130 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:50,279 cost. Crosby is another one who has had a reasonable contract for a very 131 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,840 long time. In fact, all the Boston guys had really good contracts in 132 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:58,000 their prime, right you had your posternocor Marshan's your burs An. They all 133 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,519 had really good contracts. Now Pasta's getting paid. So those are all things 134 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:05,600 to think about. One of the best examples right now is Ryan Nugent Hopkins 135 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:11,080 RNH, who has a contract of five point one two five million for six 136 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:16,480 more seasons. He's a star in the league, and he's getting paid reasonable 137 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,919 and you know, for as long as that, as long as he's on 138 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,440 that top power play. You know, he doesn't always play with the with 139 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,600 the top stars in that league, but he's you know, he's out there 140 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,039 for the for the top power play and he's putting up tons of tons of 141 00:10:28,039 --> 00:10:35,200 power play points, which is often really hard to get. And and you 142 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,720 know, one hundred points over one hundred points not too shabby. Um. 143 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:43,240 And even if you hadn't predicted that, um, you know, you just 144 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,159 had to know that with the power play time, he's getting a lot of 145 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:50,600 good production and that contract is reasonable, you know, five million, and 146 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,120 even if he's a little bit older, not not such a not such a 147 00:10:54,159 --> 00:11:00,000 huge risk. And I think the other thing is is cost control is huge. 148 00:11:00,759 --> 00:11:03,000 You know, you don't, like I said, with the ELC, 149 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,840 like that value per dollar of guys that are on their elcs are incredible, 150 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:13,279 but also not gonna last forever. Like just think about a couple of years 151 00:11:13,279 --> 00:11:16,440 ago when caprisof was, you know, winning the call their trophy and putting 152 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,559 up you know, point per game season making like nine twenty five thousand. 153 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,159 That was incredible, but you knew, you knew he was going to get 154 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:28,320 paid, and you knew that was going to go up a lot, and 155 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,159 it did, and so you had to be prepared for that. Don't just 156 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:37,159 assume that like he's gonna stay there forever. So the cost controlled assets, 157 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,639 the ones that are on like you know, reasonable contracts for five six years, 158 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,279 you know, at between four and six million, those are those are 159 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:48,559 key. And as an example of maybe what not to do is that if 160 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:54,399 you just went by name value and you had Austin Matthews, Mitch Marner or 161 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,559 Timmy Pannier and McDavid Eric Carlson all on your team like that would be an 162 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:03,240 amazing team, right, But in a cap league, that's over fifty eight 163 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,039 million against your cap. And let's say, for the simplicity of math, 164 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,320 that you have one hundred million dollar cap. That's five players taking up fifty 165 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,519 eight percent of your cap. If you have a twenty man roster, that 166 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,559 means you have forty two million to pay the other guys, the other fifteen 167 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,279 guys. I know that was a lot of numbers, but that's an average 168 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:24,240 of two point eight million for the other fifteen guys on your roster. Go 169 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,360 ahead and look at cab Friendly and puck PD and see how many good players 170 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:30,320 you can get for two point eight million. There are not a lot. 171 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,360 There are not a lot. I just have Minnesota's page open right now. 172 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:37,600 You could get a Goose staff night Quist or an Oscar sun Quist for two 173 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,159 point eight million. Is that what you want to fill out your roster? 174 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:46,279 Is that going to make you competitive? Because oftentimes it isn't just the frosting 175 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:48,879 on the cake that you need. You need all the other stuff too. 176 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:54,559 You need you know, the actual you know, the eggs, and flour 177 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,440 and all that to keep the hold it together. You need the meat and 178 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,000 potatoes guys to give you the other stats as well, and together you that 179 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,159 production. So you have to be careful that your stars don't take up too 180 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,480 much of your cap. And those guys I mentioned, Matthews, Marner, 181 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:16,159 Panera, McDavid Carlson are not necessarily equal, right because Matthews, with the 182 00:13:16,159 --> 00:13:20,080 goals and the shots and even some of the blocks that he put in this 183 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:24,399 year, was pretty you know, not terrible value based on his contract. 184 00:13:24,399 --> 00:13:26,960 But a guy like Panarin, who just gives you a cists and doesn't shoot 185 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,960 and doesn't block and doesn't do other things, his value per dollar is pretty 186 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:35,320 terrible. You know. McDavid and Carlson are both amazing, and you know, 187 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:39,399 you could we could have a reasonable debate about whether they're worth it value 188 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:41,960 per dollar. I think in a lot of leagues they may actually not be, 189 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,919 just based on how expensive they are. But if you can get other 190 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:50,840 guys on reasonable contracts, then it's not so bad. You know. Then 191 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,159 you if you can be smart and get other guys at value, then it 192 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,480 can be okay to have some of those top stars, because in the end 193 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,519 production is production, and so I would say, and maybe you have a 194 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:05,879 different take on this, Jesse, but I would say, getting you know, 195 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,879 maybe two to three of those guys that are really good no matter what 196 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,759 the cost is, okay, as long as you can be really smart and 197 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:16,120 strategic about other guys on good trunk contracts. But you can't have more than 198 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:20,559 that because then it just becomes too difficult. As I mentioned in my example, 199 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,759 two point eight million dollar guys, and then if you get one guy 200 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,240 that's like, you know, six or seven million, now you're down to 201 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,399 like two and like just over two million, like two point two two point 202 00:14:30,399 --> 00:14:33,639 three million for the rest of the guys, and that's just there's no way, 203 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:35,679 there's no way to build a competitive team with that kind of constraint. 204 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:43,519 So the other thing is the fantasy driven versus NHL driven salaries. You know, 205 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:46,159 the principles don't really change, but you're you're working with different data. 206 00:14:46,279 --> 00:14:50,840 As Jesse said, In the fantasy driven leagues, you have some influence over 207 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:52,519 the over the salaries, but that can be harder to keep it all straight. 208 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:56,840 So you just have to go with, okay, what is the price 209 00:14:56,919 --> 00:15:00,720 set by the league for this guy, and is that value? Is that 210 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,480 a value per dollar still good? And it can get inflated in weird ways, 211 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,120 but as long as you track it and think about it that way, 212 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,240 it's okay. It's okay. But I do think that can be harder to 213 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,080 keep it all straight because then you're like, okay, well in this league, 214 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,919 he's worth this much and the production and so as long as you have 215 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:20,559 a calculation to keep it all straight, you just have to manually input all 216 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:24,080 those salaries and then use that for your calculation. But other than that, 217 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:28,159 all the principles still apply. You don't want too many guys that are too 218 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,320 expensive based on the value per dollar, and you want those guys that are 219 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:37,120 value. Maybe somebody you know doesn't have the name value but is really incredible 220 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:43,120 based on their actual production. And so that's the kind of guy you want, 221 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,759 doesn't you know, hide the name and you know you get your grid 222 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,759 value. I mean, just think about someone like Andrew Maggie Pani last year 223 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,960 who had you know, a ton of goals and wasn't getting paid that much. 224 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,639 Like, okay, someone like that is okay, right, It doesn't 225 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:02,080 matter what the name is. As long as they're produced than great. But 226 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,639 what do you think, Jesse, Yeah, for sure. I'm going to 227 00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:12,399 get to some of these concepts from a different direction in the second half of 228 00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:21,159 this episode. But I think this idea of generating basically dollar per you know, 229 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,519 a dollar per point, you know, is ultimately what you're trying to 230 00:16:25,559 --> 00:16:30,919 determine in terms of the values. So using a valuation system covering up the 231 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,639 names, divide contract by dollar, and you are going to have a good 232 00:16:33,679 --> 00:16:40,799 start to this. What I would say is there is kind of an artificial 233 00:16:40,879 --> 00:16:45,840 limit on NHL salaries because of the NHL salary cap and I think there are 234 00:16:45,919 --> 00:16:49,840 maximum salaries in the NHL, right, So Connor McDavid has a capit of 235 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,559 twelve point five million dollars and you know, no, you know, ar 236 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,279 Timmy Paneran's a million less than that. Then you just start to go gradually 237 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,919 down the ten million, the nine million, all that type of stuff. 238 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:08,000 I think Connor McDavid, if it was a totally free market, would be 239 00:17:08,039 --> 00:17:14,160 getting a lot more Kevin given what he could do. There's sort of an 240 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,440 artificial limit up there, and what that means is that some of the guys 241 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,640 at the top are going to be values for that. I bet when you 242 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,720 divide it out, you're going to see that Connor McDavid and Austin Matthews are 243 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:30,880 value for the dollar, but John Tavares and r Timmy Pineron are not for 244 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:34,480 the stats they are going to give you for fantasy. So you're right on 245 00:17:34,559 --> 00:17:41,039 point, Victor, in terms of what is going to create value in here. 246 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:45,359 Whether you use Fantasy Hockey Geek, which I believe is our colleague in 247 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:51,079 the Dabber Hockey universe, the Dabber verse, that is, that is a 248 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:53,400 good resource to use. I of course I always you know, I love 249 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:59,960 to talk about my homebrew projections in valuations. But whatever you're going to do 250 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:07,119 there, that is a great methodology that you're suggesting their, Victor, all 251 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,319 right, let's go to the second half. I got some more. I 252 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:30,279 got some more thoughts on this idea of the roster construction. Back to talk 253 00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:33,880 about roster construction. Here's some thoughts I have for you in terms of what 254 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,599 to do when you've done your initial draft and now you're trying to figure out 255 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:42,240 why it's hand in hand you're figuring out how to make your roster, you're 256 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,279 figuring out how to do your draft. Victor has kind of said, how 257 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:51,160 are you going to evaluate these players to decide how to draft the other side 258 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,480 of it is what your roster is going to look like in the end that 259 00:18:53,519 --> 00:18:59,240 you're planning toward. Like Victor said, there are problems with just getting all 260 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:06,839 the scoring players because of the salary element. I highly recommend and I know 261 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:11,200 a Victor and I both do. A version of this is building a spreadsheet 262 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:18,519 to track your stuff. It is critical to me to have a way to 263 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,480 track it, even outside of fan tracks, just my team. I mean 264 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:26,960 the problem. You can let fan tracks gauge everything else, but I want 265 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:30,880 to be able to manipulate my data to mark things up. There are ways 266 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,400 to do that in fan tracks. I like to have my own sheet. 267 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,519 I'm not trying to turn into a self help guru. I'm just telling you 268 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:42,519 that a special especially as you handle multiple dynasty teams, things like salary rosters, 269 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:45,680 You're gonna want to have a way to do it. It's tracking your 270 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,359 team throughout the year. I think in cooking they got something called a mis 271 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,119 impla is a French ding, which is where you set up all your like 272 00:19:55,319 --> 00:19:59,680 your food. You set up all your stuff in one place before you start 273 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,200 to. You know, you have your ingredients set out, you have your 274 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,440 knives and such, and then after everything is set up, that's when you 275 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,000 do the cooking. You don't just go and like randomly pull stuff in throughout. 276 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:14,079 That's how the real chefs do it, and that is how I am 277 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:17,440 going to set up, because I'm going to have my stuff in one place. 278 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,799 I have a Google sheet that has all my offseason rosters, my draft 279 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:22,680 picks, a list of all my leagues that I'm in, with the future 280 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:26,240 draft dates, to buy ins whether I paid in, and I have pages. 281 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:30,079 Because what you ultimately want to do with what you set up is you 282 00:20:30,079 --> 00:20:33,400 can download a Fantrak's roster, paste it into a certain sheet, and then 283 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,799 have links to the sheet where you manipulate everything. You don't want to have 284 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:41,319 to download a sheet and then start over every time you want to be able 285 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,720 to download a sheet and it links into what you have the same principles applying 286 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:48,920 a lot of places. So I know not everybody's a spreadsheet person, but 287 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,880 I'm just saying there are a lot of things you can automate to try to 288 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:59,559 track and to try to strategize how you're building this roster. So just as 289 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:02,279 a starting point. You know, because you have to keep track of all 290 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:07,480 these buyouts and retentions, etc. That you've done, you can keep notes 291 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:10,160 on what your rival manager's done in the past. Anyway, this is a 292 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,799 little bit of an asside to roster construction. But in terms of building your 293 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,599 roster, obviously, if you're in a cap league, you're gonna want to 294 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:21,759 consider your budget. I am an advocate for having at least some level of 295 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:26,519 budget between your different positions, especially in categories. You need to think about 296 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:29,599 that. What are you going to pay for in your league? Are you 297 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,559 just grabbing value where value happens, or are you trying to balance your roster 298 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,920 across positions. If you start and you get a bunch of center eligibles who 299 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,200 are all your stars, and then you don't have anybody in the other categories, 300 00:21:41,519 --> 00:21:45,279 you could have some trouble. What Victor said about the dangers of just 301 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:49,480 getting the stars and damn the torpedoes from there is refined further at this step. 302 00:21:49,799 --> 00:21:53,200 The risk is these lines are kind of arbitrary. It could cost you 303 00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:57,160 value opportunities. If I say twenty five percent of my roster goes the defenseman, 304 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,599 and I have that percentage already allocated or already filled up, and then 305 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,400 a three point five million dollar Brandon Montour drips in my lap. Should I 306 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,000 not make a play for him? Because he was like at least in certain 307 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,880 leagues, in certain points leagues I was in, he was the top ranked 308 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:18,559 defenseman in the whole NHL over the last thirty days of the year. So 309 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,960 there's a certain value to picking a guy like that up. But this should 310 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,519 be a familiar concept to anybody who's ever been in an auction league and ever 311 00:22:26,559 --> 00:22:30,480 thought about how they're going to do this. But I would suggest a competition 312 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:33,400 advances as you're playing better and better players. If you haven't played in salary 313 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,599 cap and you're going to start playing some experienced players in salary cap, the 314 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,119 players who have some level of discipline around their budget, especially in category leagues, 315 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,839 are going to have the advantage over people who just draft whatever looks good. 316 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,400 You're an adult, probably you're listening to the show. You probably have 317 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,799 a credit card. You probably understand the basic concept of having a budget and 318 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:59,480 following it, but you need to keep things in mind. What can you 319 00:22:59,599 --> 00:23:03,920 afford unquote within a cap? When do you have to stop? It? 320 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,519 Also allows for unique strategies. I can think of our friends over at the 321 00:23:08,559 --> 00:23:15,839 cook Up Full again, additional dab colleagues. The Tier one auction you get 322 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,480 to listen to that broadcast sometimes and they get to do the Tier one up 323 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,759 in the the the auction up in Tier one, and there have been past 324 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:30,000 examples of people who in that points league have pursued very interesting strategies, like 325 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:33,119 basically the zero goalie strategy. You know you can do that. You can 326 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,480 decide to budget almost zero to your goalies or you know, two dollars your 327 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,279 goalies out of your budget and try to overwhelm in some of the other categories. 328 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:45,200 If you think that you can get better efficiency further down there, you 329 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,720 have. You have a lot more efficiency if you decide, and it's not 330 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:52,279 a punt, it's a let's set the budget down there, and if I 331 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:56,160 can get a good goalie for you know, if I have a five dollar 332 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,480 budget for my goalies, I get a good goalie for four, then great, 333 00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:02,200 then I'll get it. But that is the max I want to pay 334 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,680 over there, because I want to pay another positions, Stars and scrubs is 335 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,119 something I love to do an auction. I absolutely love to do it in 336 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,880 a redraft auction versus the balanced portfolio that other people do. There's the never 337 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:18,480 ending dilemma that comes up all the time. But is it different in a 338 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:23,119 cap league. Yes, it's very different. Stars and scrubs and balanced portfolio 339 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,599 and Victor was getting to this too. Are very different in terms of year 340 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:33,000 draft between a cap league that is a dynasty and a cap league that is 341 00:24:33,039 --> 00:24:37,039 a one year deal. First of all, if you're used to the auction 342 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,640 format, you think it's going to flow easily to a cap format. There's 343 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:45,759 a world of difference between leagues where the budget is just used to draft your 344 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,720 team at the beginning of the year and a league where the salary figures are 345 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:53,039 enforced throughout the year in future years. Okay, if you have a two 346 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,839 hundred and sixty dollars budget and you have to put your team together, but 347 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,640 then throughout the year you can trade for player that are way higher expense than 348 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,319 you know it. Maybe you end up with a team that, had you 349 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,799 drafted all those players in the auction, would have been worth four hundred dollars 350 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,960 because of the trades you made for more expensive players or waiver bids that you 351 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,279 made for more expensive players who were auctioned more expensively. That's all cool if 352 00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:23,039 you're doing a redraft and that's the way you're doing it, But in a 353 00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:26,960 salary cap league, you're not just going to be able to take people on 354 00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:32,119 willy nilly. You can have some level of that, but that to me 355 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,119 means that stars and scrubs is a problem. I love it in a redraft 356 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,839 auction because I feel like the upper tier players are so much more valuable than 357 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:47,519 the average player that I'm capturing value there even by over paying for them. 358 00:25:47,759 --> 00:25:52,440 In my experience, especially in moderately shallow leagues, it's not the kukuple is 359 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,680 a little too hardcore for it to work every year, although I got some 360 00:25:56,839 --> 00:26:00,599 success out of it even in the higher tiers a couple of times. My 361 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:06,240 experiences in my little bootstrap rookie scribbles have told me that the most valuable thing 362 00:26:06,319 --> 00:26:10,680 is standard deviations of value over replacement. And then the object of the season, 363 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,319 after you get those superstar players to build around, is to stream the 364 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:22,039 scrubs mercilessly and build yourself up over the scrub replacements who turn into breakouts. 365 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,480 Keep filling those gaps, keep building up the troughs. But as Victor said, 366 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,960 you can't do it in salary. You can't live on Oscar sunk Fist 367 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:33,920 alone. Man cannot live on Oscar sun Quist alone. I'm pretty sure that's 368 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,880 in the good book somewhere. But in shallow leagues maybe you can do some 369 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,039 kind of a thing. But if you start out with Matthews, Vassilevsky and 370 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,279 Brady Kachuck, you're gonna have trouble getting everything else together. You're not gonna 371 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:52,960 be eat. So the balance portfolio does end up working out, and that's 372 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,279 good because that makes you a little bit more like a real ANHL team, 373 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,279 or at least most of the real in shell teams. These breakouts that you 374 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:04,039 get also don't come free. You can grab Carter for Hacky off the wire. 375 00:27:04,279 --> 00:27:07,759 He starts out real cheap, but in a dynasty salary, in a 376 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,160 couple of years, he's not going to be free anymore. So that's another 377 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,160 problem with the stars and scrubs is it's going to burn out on you. 378 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,079 And if you have too much of your salary, too much of your budget 379 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:22,799 committed to a couple of players, it just ain't gonna happen. The contracts 380 00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:26,680 are not all going to be minimums, and streaming takes on a different note. 381 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119 That's the thing with salary cap streaming becomes a very different type of thing. 382 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,400 There's not very much streaming, and like Victor said, it can be 383 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:41,839 very limited by these buyout things and how much you can even drop players during 384 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,359 the season, because if you drop a player and there's a consequence to that, 385 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:51,000 then you're really you're kind of screwed. You can't just drop a player 386 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:56,319 and pick up another player and call it good if you have to retain some 387 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,160 cap hit from the players that you drop. So if you get frustrated by 388 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,920 streaming leagues, you may find an advantage to this. On the other hand, 389 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:10,599 if you love streaming, that is going to be a complication to playing 390 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,079 in a cap league. You probably aren't going to be able to do it 391 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:17,640 like you're used to now. Like in in Victor and my common team, 392 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,839 one of the things that we had is we had a lot of minor league 393 00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:25,319 players who we could flex into positions who were relatively inexpensive, and then we 394 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,440 could move them up and down. So our streaming really came from our bench, 395 00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:32,920 and it really came from our minor system, and there were ways. 396 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:36,920 You know, there were loopholes for players that you could drop from your minor 397 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,279 league system that you wouldn't be paying for the same way. So that was 398 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,960 very helpful, but it is it is limiting at that point. So yeah, 399 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:49,880 I overall, I would recommend a budget, I would recommend a balanced 400 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:57,359 portfolio, and I would echo everything Victor said about throw out your perceptions of 401 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,680 who's a first round player, who's second round player, who's a third round 402 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:08,119 player, divide production by cost. The higher players in that are the players 403 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,799 you want, and the frankly, frankly the most valuable player in some of 404 00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:15,240 these leagues. I mean, you want to start with a couple of Connor 405 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:19,920 mcdavids, you know, like there are multiple Connor mcdavids, but you want 406 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:25,119 a couple of tent poles to build around. But almost the most valuable commodity 407 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,960 in a salary cap league is a borderline star producer on a cheap contract, 408 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:33,720 the entry level contracts. Victor talked about the players who were having that mid 409 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:40,519 career breakout that maybe we're not expected those folks come up. How huge, 410 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,480 and especially in a fantasy generated league. I felt like in those leagues in 411 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:56,000 the red rock of fantasy generated salary league. The most valuable commodity in leagues 412 00:29:56,039 --> 00:30:00,839 where league salaries are set by bidding is the one dollar player who's locked up 413 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:07,759 over time who produces way above one dollar level, because that added to your 414 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:11,359 roster not only provides the production, but it provides a gap for you to 415 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:17,680 take on more superstar. So it does inscribes. It's very possible and fantasy 416 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,359 generated regardless, but it is in a salary cap but plain old salary cap 417 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,759 league. It's you've almost got to have a balanced portfolio. If somebody set 418 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:30,359 up your league right, If somebody set it up where you have way too 419 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,720 much cap for what you actually are going to have on your rosters, it's 420 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:37,960 it's a very different thing. Reactions to any of what I'm talking about, 421 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,680 Victor, No, you made some really excellent points in there, for sure, 422 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:47,079 And and like you said that, I think if you're used to a 423 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,319 league where you're just streaming every week, then this is going to be a 424 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:55,880 difficult adjustment for you, because I don't think that's really going to be the 425 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,119 case. There are some leagues that I mentioned that don't have buyouts that are 426 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,599 just you know, keep the cap under for that amount of time. Some 427 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,079 of them are weekly starts and you can just you can kind of stream that 428 00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:11,640 way, but most of these leagues are constructed that as Jesse said, the 429 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,160 streaming comes from your bench or from your miners, right, It's like you're 430 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,240 streaming in from the farm and then flexing guys up and down. A lot 431 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:23,440 of these also have games played limits and so you know you're doing a lot 432 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,960 of that type of streaming, but not so much from the wire because that's 433 00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,039 just a little bit, a little bit more complicated. It's a little bit 434 00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:34,519 not as ideal, and there isn't as much there, especially if you have 435 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:38,279 buyouts, like You're you're not going to be able to do that, and 436 00:31:38,359 --> 00:31:41,920 so for some people maybe that's not as much fun. It depends on what 437 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,799 you think about. For me, it's more fun to think about the puzzle 438 00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:52,039 of putting together a good team with the constraints of the budget and all the 439 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,279 other things that we talked about, and then you kind of can just sit 440 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:57,440 back and watch your team perform and then you can make some minor tweaks here 441 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,559 there, but you don't have to stream. You know, you can't really 442 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:05,000 stream every week. You can grab some players when they're hot and hold on 443 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:07,839 for a while, maybe buy them out later. But it's a it's a 444 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,720 different kind of it's more of a long view type of thing, which which 445 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:15,240 I enjoy. Um. And it's definitely it's definitely a bit different, but 446 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:20,559 it's also as as Jesse said, you you have to really think about this 447 00:32:20,599 --> 00:32:27,599 when you construct your roster, and those those cost control assets are absolutely huge. 448 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,200 Um. And we'll talk about this a little bit more in the third 449 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,000 part managing your budget. Um, So we'll definitely get to that um. 450 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:37,599 But yeah, I thought you did a great job of breaking it all down. 451 00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:40,160 And I'm too. I'm a fan of the of the stars and scrubs 452 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,640 to a point. I think it's it's more of the stars and the and 453 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,920 the intermediary guys because like in a lot of leagues, you would want like 454 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,839 stars and scrubs are okay because the wire you can stream, you know, 455 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,039 there's a lot of more flexibility with that, but it isn't usually as much 456 00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,599 with these kind of leagues. So you want, as I mentioned, a 457 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,160 couple of stars, and then you want just your cost controlled assets. You 458 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,319 want your good players, maybe not amazing players, but guys that fill in 459 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:13,279 the categories at a relatively reasonable cost per dollar. That's the rest of the 460 00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:16,960 puzzle to fill in. And then you have your miners eligible guys that you 461 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,440 know are an entry level contracts, and generally a lot of the quote unquote 462 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,279 streaming can come from there because you can get a guy who you know was 463 00:33:24,319 --> 00:33:28,799 a nobody and all of a sudden, he's playing NHL games and putting up 464 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,400 you know, shots, hits, blocks, whatever. And so then you 465 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,920 grab that guy and you flex him in for as long as he's relevant or 466 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,920 gets close to the game's played limit, and then you can jettison him to 467 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,839 the curb because you know, once he's making you know, two or three 468 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,880 million, it's not really the same value and it's not worth it anymore. 469 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,319 You can find a new guy that's making league minimum on an ELC. So 470 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,759 that's kind of more of where that part comes in. I would say, 471 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:57,759 a great job, Jessee. So yeah, it does add a whole different 472 00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:02,480 level to the way you need to build roster because you can't just bring everybody 473 00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:07,320 in who you want to play the game. We're going to have a third 474 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,760 episode coming up. We're going to talk about the game strategy, and we've 475 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,840 also solicited some listener questions. But for right now, let's take a break 476 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:28,360 to come back close up the show. Fan Tracks a great place to play 477 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:34,400 your salary. Fantasy leagues and fantasy hockey is back already for the twenty three 478 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,800 twenty four season. You could set up your leagues, you could roll over 479 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,519 your dynasties, you can get those trades backflowing again that maybe we're cut off 480 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:46,400 because of the trade deadline that you had in your league. So I would 481 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:51,920 recommend that you can customize everything. You can use the real NHL salaries. 482 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:55,280 They will input, they will pull. If not, you would be going 483 00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:01,199 crazy trying to input all those and nobody wants that life. So just use 484 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,079 it and you can get the NHL salaries to populate. You can do all 485 00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:08,920 the different settings in there. So would recommend, highly recommend. We're part 486 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,599 of the fan tracks podcast network that's part of Fantrak's HQ where you can get 487 00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:19,320 content on things like fantasy hockey, people writing articles and such and all the 488 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,800 other fantasy sports. Because there's ten different sports you can play on fantracks, 489 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:29,079 So go and check out that information and if you get interested in other sports 490 00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:34,559 there's stuff for you there too. We're not only a part of that where 491 00:35:34,559 --> 00:35:37,920 there are also a couple of podcasts on Fantrack's HQ, but we're also proud 492 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,159 to be a part of the Dabber podcast network. We've referred to a couple 493 00:35:40,199 --> 00:35:45,320 of our friends at Dabber, but there are many elements in addition to that 494 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:51,199 Fantasy Hockey Geek Guy. In addition to keeping Carlson with their wonderful couple league, 495 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:57,039 there is also Dabber Prospects where Victor does some writing on prospects. Victor, 496 00:35:57,119 --> 00:36:00,000 why don't you tell people what you got cooking over a dapper prospects. 497 00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:06,360 Yeah, we're gonna be releasing, hopefully at this point when you're listening to 498 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,480 this, our organizational ranks where we all contributed, and I think Pizza Peter 499 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:15,960 Harling is working up the consensus article where we'll all kind of talk about who's 500 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:19,920 higher or lower on certain guys, So definitely check that out. It's gonna 501 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,719 be a good read. Hopefully we'll have some podcasts on that as well. 502 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:28,440 And yeah, they're doing great work and also looking forward to contribute into the 503 00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:35,880 Fantasy Hockey Guide for the Prospects. Very good and I would say I have 504 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,280 a second podcast. It's called Dynasty Sports Life. The big excitement going on 505 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:45,239 over there right now is I've launched a four sport Dynasty Hockey, Basketball, 506 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,679 Baseball, football. You manage a team in each of the four sports. 507 00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:54,159 You get a prize not only for winning each sport, but if you have 508 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,760 the best overall results across the four sports, and you can trade players. 509 00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:02,960 You can trade Connor Dard for Victor went bon Yama if you want to stars 510 00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:07,199 across different sports. There probably will be a salary component to this too. 511 00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:12,239 If you're interested in that, you can look at my d y in sports 512 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:19,760 Life Twitter handle. You can listen to Dynasty Sports Life and there's an application 513 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:27,440 process for it. If you also enjoy this podcast, you might enjoy some 514 00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,920 of the additional content that we create through our Patreon. Victor, why don't 515 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:36,320 you tell people about the excitement of Patreon and some of the things that they 516 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,840 might be able to do to even interact with it. Yeah, I definitely 517 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,079 got some great stuff going on. We got, you know, your roster 518 00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:46,880 doctors that you can you know, solicit and get some one on one help 519 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:52,400 between Jesse High and the offseason, figure out your your keepers, your dynasty 520 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:57,199 draft like whatever you want. It's accessible to patrons. Will have patron casts 521 00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:01,039 with exclusive content over the summer, aff related and other things as well. 522 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:06,519 And also some of you who are in the Ultra life or category have maybe 523 00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:10,639 seen the prospect ranks that we've been that we've been putting together, and I 524 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:15,000 will say that this is getting a massive overhaul. Hopefully by the time this 525 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,400 one's out, it should be ready and it's going to be new and improved. 526 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,000 Jesse is really great with these spreadsheets, and I'm kind of a Dodo 527 00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:28,719 bird, so he's been helping with that, and it'll be way better than 528 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,880 it has been, including ranks within teams, organizational ranks. We're going to 529 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,719 have all kinds of great stuff to twenty twenty three drafts, draftees and then 530 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:42,440 those will be merged over into the and integrated seamlessly into the overall ranks. 531 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:47,159 So everything you need in terms of ranking prospects, including their blocks, shots 532 00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:51,920 and hits, their bash that's going to be incorporated as well. So definitely 533 00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:55,079 check that out. And if anyone wants to contribute as a scout to the 534 00:38:55,079 --> 00:39:00,400 team previews or and beyond, you get some really great access us to a 535 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,719 bunch of great videos and proprietary stats with instat Just ask for a couple of 536 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,880 reports per month, So send me a message. Start sending one to Jesse 537 00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:15,000 and he'll get it to me. Or Fantasy Hockey Life at gmail dot com 538 00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:19,599 or dm me on Twitter. That would be great, and check that out 539 00:39:19,639 --> 00:39:23,280 at patreon dot com slash Fantasy Hockey Life. That's right. Hit us up 540 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:29,920 on Twitter. Fan Hockey Life is my Twitter handle. All one word Victor 541 00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:35,679 can be contacted Victor NUNO twelve viic t O R and U n O one 542 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,519 two. You should subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Give 543 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:45,159 us a rating and review. That is very helpful in getting more people into 544 00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:50,800 the sport of dynasty fantasy hockey. Whether you're listening right now and getting excited 545 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,320 about the Stanley Cup playoffs or the first week of the Stanley Cup playoffs behind 546 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:58,440 you, or whether you're going back and listening later because you're thinking about playing 547 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,719 you some salary cap lead. I hope that you enjoy every single minute of 548 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:12,480 this Fantasy Hockey Life