FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XXV

Welcome to our 90th edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.

In this week's edition, we bring you the 2010 FDH Fantasy Hot Dog Draft Board & Suggested League Guidelines.

2010 FDH Fantasy Hot Dog Draft Board & Suggested League Guidelines

We at FDH believe strongly that the concept of fantasy sports applies well to competitions at almost every level of life. No niche competition is too marginal to fit into our worldview of competitive fantasy sports.

As such, we make it a point to cover the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest and to draft these weapons of mass digestion for our competitive purposes.

Such a draft works best with four or five owners drafting for three rounds. We recommend a modified serpentine draft, with the third round following the same order as the second round to compensate somewhat for the dominance of the top tier on the draft board.

Here are some recent past results from the great Independence Day tradition.

Here is the home page for the sanctioning body, Major League Eating.

Here are the profiles of these “champion athletes” – and we have linked to these profiles for each competitor on our draft board.

Here is our draft board, delivered in standard FDH style:

TOP TIER
1 Joey Chestnut
2 Takeru Kobayashi
SECOND TIER
3 Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti
4 Tim “Eater X” Janus
5 Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas
6 Ben Monson
7 Bob Shoudt
8 Hall Hunt
THIRD TIER
9 Erik “The Red” Denmark
10 Eric Booker
11 Juliet Lee
12 Tim Brown
13 Pat Philbin
14 Micah Collins
15 Crazy Legs Conti

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XXIV

Welcome to our 89th edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.

In this week's edition, we bring you the 2010-2011 fantasy hockey “Ultimate Stat” numbers.

2010-2011 Fantasy Hockey “Ultimate Stat” numbers

This is the FantasyDrafthelp.com statistic, the Ultimate Quantitative Baseline, based on the statistical principle of standard deviation from the mean. For defensemen and forwards, the relevant statistics are points, goals, assists, penalty minutes and plus-minus. For goalies, the relevant statistics are wins, shutouts, goals against average and save percentage (with the categories being weighted extra since there is one less). In each category, a spectrum is calculated from the best performance to the worst (on a per-game basis for forwards and defensemen). The numbers in each category are added together to create our statistic. An additional equalizer is injected to apply more points to each player at the positions of scarcer depth. What this stat truly does is to quantify beyond doubt how the stronger and weaker performances in each category add up to the absolute fantasy value for each player. As such, it establishes a baseline for performance that is more comprehensive than anything ever developed. A number over 300 is considered elite and 375 constitutes a perfect score. We have listed below the top 15 rankings at each position for last season as well as the top 30 overall.


Left Wings
UQB
1
Alex Ovechkin
375
2
Daniel Sedin
353
3
Alexander Semin
340
4
Ilya Kovalchuk
295
5
Alexandre Burrows
294
6
Zach Parise
282
7
Patrick Marleau
278
8T
Henrik Zetterberg
245
8T
Patrik Elias
245
10
Rene Bourque
244
11
Patrick Sharp
236
12
Wojtek Wolski
232
13
Ryan Smyth
224
14
Ryane Clowe
223
15
Thomas Vanek
221


Centers
UQB
1
Henrik Sedin
337
2
Sidney Crosby
333
3
Nicklas Backstrom
321
4
Evgeni Malkin
282
5
Joe Thornton
272
6
Steven Stamkos
268
7
Ryan Getzlaf
260
8
Eric Staal
253
9
Jonathan Toews
243
10
Ryan Kesler
238
11
Anze Kopitar
229
12
Nik Antropov
227
13
Paul Stastny
226
14
Brad Richards
224
15
Pavel Datsyuk
221


Right Wings
UQB
1
Marian Gaborik
307
2
Dany Heatley
286
3
Patrick Kane
281
4
Corey Perry
269
5
Steve Downie
268
6
Marian Hossa
267
7
Mike Knuble
262
8
Martin St Louis
259
9
Daniel Alfredsson
258
10
Bobby Ryan
253
11
Chris Stewart
248
12
Rick Nash
247
13
Teemu Selanne
243
14T
Mikael Samuelsson
236
14T
Jarome Iginla
236


Defensemen
UQB
1
Mike Green
354
2
Duncan Keith
287
3T
Drew Doughty
263
3T
Dan Boyle
263
5
Chris Pronger
260
6
Sergei Gonchar
254
7
Christian Ehrhoff
243
8
Zdeno Chara
233
9
Nicklas Lidstrom
223
10
Tyler Myers
214
11
Brian Rafalski
213
12
Joni Pitkanen
212
13
Brian Campbell
208
14T
Mark Streit
206
14T
Keith Yandle
206



Goalies
UQB
1T
Martin Brodeur
375
1T
Ilya Bryzgalov
375
1T
Ryan Miller
375
1T
Tuukka Rask
375
5
Craig Anderson
359
6
Evgeni Nabokov
358
7
Jimmy Howard
357
8
Tomas Vokoun
351
9
Miikka Kiprusoff
350
10T
Antti Niemi
348
10T
Henrik Lundqvist
348
12
Jaroslav Halak
343
13
Pekka Rinne
340
14
Roberto Luongo
326
15
Jonathan Quick
309


Top 30 Overall
UQB
1T
Alex Ovechkin
375
1T
Martin Brodeur
375
1T
Ilya Bryzgalov
375
1T
Ryan Miller
375
1T
Tuukka Rask
375
6
Craig Anderson
359
7
Evgeni Nabokov
358
8
Jimmy Howard
357
9
Mike Green
354
10
Daniel Sedin
353
11
Tomas Vokoun
351
12
Miikka Kiprusoff
350
13T
Antti Niemi
348
13T
Henrik Lundqvist
348
15
Jaroslav Halak
343

16T
Pekka Rinne
340
16T
Alexander Semin
340
18
Henrik Sedin
337
19
Sidney Crosby
333
20
Roberto Luongo
326
21
Nicklas Backstrom
321
22
Jonathan Quick
309
23
Marian Gaborik
307
24
Brian Elliott
298
25
Ilya Kovalchuk
295
26
Alexandre Burrows
294
27
Duncan Keith
287
28
Dany Heatley
286
29
Tim Thomas
283
30
Evgeni Malkin
282

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XXIII

Welcome to our 88th edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.

In this week's edition, we bring you the Early Version 2010 FDH Fantasy Football Board (revised version coming by end of July).

Early Version 2010 FDH Fantasy Football Board

QB
TOP TIER
1 Brees
2 P Manning
3 Rivers
4 Brady
5 Rodgers
6 Schaub
7 Romo
SECOND TIER
8 Palmer
9 Favre
10 E Manning
11 Ryan
12 Kolb
13 Flacco
14 Leinart
15 V Young
16 McNabb
17 Hasselbeck
18 Cutler
19 Stafford
THIRD TIER
20 Henne
21 M Moore

RB
TOP TIER
1 C Johnson
2 Peterson
3 Jones-Drew
4 Turner
5 S Jackson
6 Grant
7 Gore
8 Rice
9 Moreno
SECOND TIER
10 M Barber
11 D Williams
12 B Wells
13 Benson
14 J Stewart
15 Forte
16 R Brown
17 McCoy
18 Jacobs
19 Mathews
THIRD TIER
20 Addai
21 P Thomas
22 T Jones
23 R Bush
24 Greene
25 B Tate
26 Mendenhall
27 F Jones
28 Portis
29 Charles

WR
TOP TIER
1 A Johnson
2 Fitzgerald
3 Wayne
4 V Jackson
5 R White
6 C Johnson
7 Marshall
SECOND TIER
8 Austin
9 D Jackson
10 R Moss
11 S Rice
12 Colston
THIRD TIER
13 Welker
14 Houshmandzadeh
15 Boldin
16 Jennings
17 S Smith (Carolina)
18 Ochocinco
19 Owens
20 Burleson
21 Bowe
22 S Smith (NYG)
23 Driver
24 Breaston
FOURTH TIER
25 D Bryant
26 Crabtree
27 Maclin
28 Harvin
29 Edwards
30 D Bryant
31 Mason
32 S Moss
33 Benn
34 Manningham

TE
TOP TIER
1 Clark
2 Gates
3 Witten
4 V Davis
5 Gonzalez
6 Celek
SECOND TIER
7 Cooley
8 Shincoe
9 Shockey
10 Winslow
11 Boss
12 Carlson
13 Olsen
14 Finley
15 Gresham
16 Daniels

FDH Fantasy Newsletter: Volume III, Issue XXII

Welcome to our 87th edition of the FDH Fantasy Newsletter, as we continue to bring you weekly fantasy sports updates in addition to our usual content on FantasyDrafthelp.com. Our archive of past editions is available right here on The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog and specific links to past editions are available on the front page of FantasyDrafthelp.com.

In this week's edition, we bring you the Fantasy Baseball Buy Low, Sell High.

BUY LOW

^ Adam Lind: The top AL OF on the 2010 FDH draft board heading into the season has bottomed out and looks ready to resume his ’09 role as the anchor of the Toronto offense.

^ Justin Masterson: This may seem like a strange one, but once his awful performance as a starter gets him pushed back to the bullpen where he belongs, he should serve as a valuable setup man in deeper leagues.

^ Wandy Rodriguez: Aside from his win total, which should remain low pitching for that putrid team, his other numbers should improve as they have been disproportionately affected by a few poor performances.

^ Mark Teixeira: His poor start has lingered longer than usual, leading to a greater likelihood that a frustrated owner could cut bait and make you very lucky indeed.

^ Javier Vazquez: Much like Masterson, this designation is predicated on a move, although in his case it would be back to the National League where he belongs once the Yankees finish deciding that they can’t afford his gas can every fifth day.

^ Matt Wieters: The defensive strides he wanted to make so desperately – the ones that would not come as easy – have come, leaving him now to focus again on his amazing offensive upside.

SELL HIGH

^ Adrian Beltre: How strong, exactly, is your conviction that he is for real right now?

^ Doug Fister: No pedigree, no strikeouts, no reason to believe.

^ Vladimir Guerrero: With his body having been so beaten-up in recent years, do you really think he can sustain his career-best pace?

^ Livan Hernandez: Fortunately, the fade we predicted in our last installment has begun – but not in a way that dampens his still-sweet overall numbers noticeably, so you still have time.

^ Tim Hudson: The last three seasons provide a pretty good roadmap of where he’s likely to end up – which is not wildly worse than where he’s at now, but it is definitely worse, providing an opportunity to take some profit if you can move him at his present perceived value.

^ Shawn Marcum: He’s in his first year back from Tommy John surgery and looking dominant thus far, but he’s also winging it for a team playing well above its head. So there’s two reasons to play it safe.

^ Jeff Niemann: He’s not missing many bats for a pitcher purported to be a full-blown late bloomer.