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Posted by Your Guide on June 2, 2006 8:23 PM

Fantasy hockey players are selected from the rosters of the thirty teams which make up the National Hockey League. The National Hockey League plays an 82 game schedule each season.

There are generally two kinds of scoring for fantasy hockey: rotisserie and head-to-head. Rotisserie scoring awards points to each team based on their position in the standings in each category. For example, in a 12 team league, the fantasy owner with the highest total of goals would receive 12 points in the standings, while the person with the least goals would receive one point, with the others falling into place in between. This is done for each scoring category, and the scores are then tallied to determine the winner. Rotisserie is the most common type of scoring in fantasy hockey leagues.

Head-to-head scoring is also very popular in fantasy hockey. In this scoring method, two teams in the league match up against one another each week, with the winner getting credit for a victory and the loser taking a defeat. Records are tracked and standings work just like they would in regular hockey. At the end of the season, some leagues have their own playoffs, pitting the top six or eight teams against one another in a bracketed tournament to determine the champion. So, like in real life, the best team during the regular season may not end up being the league champion.

The starting positions in most fantasy hockey leagues are center (2), left wing (2), right wing (2), defenseman (4), and goalie (2). Standard scoring categories are goals, assists, plus/minus, power play points, penalty minutes, game winning goals, wins, shutouts, goals against average, and save percentage.



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