Summer is coming to
a close, which means fantasy hockey draft season is now upon us. Landsharkhockey is releasing our initial
draft rankings and player notes today.
As always, everything on the site is free, so it's the perfect time and
place to start your fantasy draft preparations. Over the next few weeks, you can expect a
series of articles highlighting the different groups of players to be
considered, including: sleepers, overrated players, rising stars, injuries
risks, gambles, breakout players and more.
We will also be updating our rankings on a weekly basis through the
start of the season to account for injuries and other news coming out of
training camp this fall.
Landsharkhockey.com
remains the premier site for customizing your own draft list. You can use our rankings as a starting point,
and reorder your list to fit your own predictions and insight. You can also choose to start your list based
on last year's scoring leaders, or even start with a blank slate and build it
yourself. The ranking tools include
comments and player flags to help you with your analysis.
New for 2011-12 -- Offensive Position breakdown.
In previous seasons,
we simply chose to rank all offense together.
As many fantasy leagues separate offense by position, we've given you
the ability to rank each position (C, RW, LW) individually. You also have the flexibility to rank all
offense in one group, then pull out your lists by specific position and manage
those lists individually. Give it a try
and let us know what you think.
Mock Draft
As we get closer to
draft time, be sure to try out our Automatic Mock Draft Console. While other draft consoles require you to
wait for a draft room to fill up, and may drag on for an hour or more, our
automated console allows you draft any time, in a matter of minutes. Use your customized draft list to queue up
your selections. You can also configure
the opponents to draft based on certain strategies, to tailor your practice
towards your specific league.
Post-draft, we'll provide you with a
scorecard of how you did by position.
Let the draft season
begin.