The farm team can be anyone provided they have been drafted or are property of an NHL team.ESQ wrote: 18 years?! That is insane!
So is the farm team all minor-leaguers that you pick up with the hope of keeping them cheaply when they become NHL players? And how many keepers do you get? We're just starting out, and 3 keepers is sounding like a very small number...especially because I had the ultimate Homer team last year with Burr, Kes, Edler, Raymond (slightly overpaid, but well worth it ). I'd love to keep them (well, maybe not Raymond ), but my Unholy Trinity in goal is just too perfect.
If I can keep Brodeur, Luongo, Lundqvist, I think I can really mess up the balance of the League
Our pool has 10 categories (G, A, Pts, +/-, def pts, PIM, PP goals, GAA, SV% and goaltender wins)....the winner of each category takes home 5% of the pot. The overall winner takes 30% of the pot, second 10% and third 5% (I think that is how it breaks down). We make 3 goaltenders mandatory because goaltending stats account for a large part of the pool and we don't want someone getting caught with their pants down in those categories (we have rules on how much a goaltender must play to have the categories count so no one can bench a guy after the first shutout of the season and win GAA and SV%).
I'll send you a copy of our rules by PM if you're interested so you can see what we do. It's not a perfect league and changes from year to year as we introduce new rules or modifications but we like it.
Oh and for those interested we use sportsline.com/fantasy for our pool as you can tailor your pool. We use the Hockey news Yearbook for positions each year and can change them in the sportsline set up, add whatever categories we want, our waiver rules etc.