November Rotisserie Rankings - Skaters

I used the yahoo default league scoring to judge who had the best roto performance among all NHL skaters through November.

Goals/Assists/Plus-Minus/Power Play Points/PIMS/Shots on Goal

Now these rankings are not on projected basis or positional importance. They are based on who actually performed the best in the roto categories amongst all NHL skaters through the first 2 months of the season.

Alexander the Great, a man who never saw a shot (117) he did not like, returned to form and lead by the Shots on Goal category powered his way to the top of the rotisserie rankings. The biggest surprise in the ranking is Shea Weber and the ancient Rob Blake powering in at number 6 and 7. Marian Hossa the October leader dropped to number 9.

1. Alexander Ovechkin (Was - LW) 

2. Sidney Crosby (Pit - C)

3. Corey Perry (Ana - RW)

4. Evgeni Malkin (Pit - C)

5. Marc Savard (Bos - C)

6. Shea Weber (Nas - D) +32

7. Rob Blake (SJS - D)

8. Ryan Getzlaf (Ana - C)

9. Marian Hossa (Det - RW)

10. Jarome Iginla (Cgy - RW) 

11. Mikko Koivu (Min - C) +20

12. Eric Staal (Car - C)

13. Thomas Vanek (Buf - LW)

14. Mike Richards (Phi - C) +19

15. Jeff Carter (Phi - C) 

16. Dion Phaneuf (Cgy - D) 

17. Dan Boyle (SJS - D)

18. Devin Setoguchi (SJS - RW) +28

19. Dustin Brown (LAK - RW) debut

20. Patrick Marleau (SJ - C)

21. Zach Parise (NJ - LW)

22. Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C) 

23. Brandon Dubinsky (NYR - C) -19

24. Ryan Clowe (SJS - LW) +20

25. Bill Guerin (NYI - RW) debut

26. Dany Heatley (Ott - LW)  

27. Sheldon Souray (Edm - D) debut

28. Patrick Sharp (Chi - RW)

29. Patrick Elias (NJ - LW)

30. Shane Doan (Phx - LW) debut

31. Vincent Lecavalier (TB - C) +17

32. Olli Jokinen (Phx - C) debut

33. Rick Nash (CBJ - LW)

34. Teemu Selanne (Ana - RW) debut

35. Mikael Samuelsson (Det - RW)

36. Chris Pronger (Ana - D) 

37. Nikolai Zherdev (NYR - RW) 

38. Patrick Kane (Chi - RW) debut

39. Daniel Sedin (Van - LW) debut

40. Phil Kessel (Bos - RW)

41. Trent Hunter (NYI - RW) debut

42. David Booth (Fla - LW) debut

43. Simon Gagne (Phi - LW) debut

44. Joe Pavelski (SJS - C) debut

45. Joe Thornton (SJS - C) debut

46. Alexander Semin (Was - LW) - 35

47. Jason Chimera (CBJ- LW) debut

48. Jason Spezza (Ott - C)

49. Niklas Hagman (Tor - RW)

50. Ilya Kovalchuk (Atl - LW)

Bubble: Markus Naslund, Brian Gionta, Chris Drury, Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic, Scott Gomez, Keith Tkachuk, Alex Kovalev

Dropped: Rene Bourque, Mike Green, Martin Havlat, Alex Burrows, Aaron Voros, Sergei Federov, Sean Avery, Paul Mara, Joe Sakic, Christian Ehrhoff

Now this is the result of weighting all categories equally which rotisserie rankings do. Being number one in goal scoring is the same as being number one in penalty minutes. It is one of the reasons I don't believe in PIMs in Fantasy Hockey.

That being said, all of these numbers are early, and when the stars heat up it will offer them greater seperation from the Niklas Hagman and Rene Bourque's of the world. But their have definitely been some fantasy surprises to begin 2009.