October Rotisserie Rankings - Skaters

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

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 in October.

I was surpised to find that Benedict Arnold himself Marian Hossa was the most valuable Roto hockey player in the first month of the season. I have tabulated all the relevant statistics to form my top 50 below.

1. Marian Hossa (Det - RW)

2. Evgeni Malkin (Pit - C)

3. Tomas Vanek (Buf - LW)

4. Brandon Dubinsky (NYR - C)

5. Brenden Morrow (Dal - LW)

6. Sidney Crosby (Pit - C)

7. Ryan Getzlaf (Anh - C)

8. Scott Gomez (NYR - C)

9. Dan Boyle (SJ - D)

10. Marc Savard (Bos - C)

11. Alexander Semin (Was - LW)

12. Corey Perry (Anh - RW)

13. Mike Green (Was - D)

14. Alexander Ovechkin (Was - LW)

15. Henrik Zetterberg (Det - C,LW)

16. Dion Phaneuf (Cgy - D)

17. Zach Parise (NJ - LW)

18. Jarome Iginla (Cgy - RW)

19. Mikael Samuelsson (Det - RW)

20. Rob Blake (SJ - D)

21. Christian Ehrhoff (SJ - D)

22. Dany Heatley (Ott - LW)

23. Patrick Sharp (Chi - C,LW)

24. Patrik Elias (NJ - LW)

25. Patrick Marleau (SJ - C,LW)

26. Eric Staal (Car - C)

27. Rene Bourque (Cgy - LW)

28. Phil Kessel (Bos - RW)

29. Jeff Carter (Phi - C)

30. Pavel Datsyuk (Det - C)

31. Mikko Koivu (Min - C)

32. Paul Mara (NYR - D)

33. Mike Richards (Phi - C)

34. Milan Hejduk (Col - RW)

35. Paul Stastny (Col - C)

36. Sean Avery (Dal - LW)

37. Joe Sakic (Col - C)

38. Shea Weber (Nsh - D)

39. Nikolai Zherdev (NYR - RW)

40. Sergei Fedorov (Was - C)

41. Aaron Voros (NYR - LW)

42. Alex Burrows (Van - LW)

43. Devin Setoguchi (SJ - RW)

44. Ryane Clowe (SJ - LW)

45. Chris Pronger (Anh - D)

46. Niklas Hagman (Tor - LW)

47. Rick Nash (Cls - LW)

48. Vincent Lecavalier (TB - C)

49. Jason Spezza (Ott - C)

50. Martin Havlat (Chi - RW)

Bubble: Paul Kariya, Jason Blake, Patrice Bergeron, Nik Antropov, Mike Modano, Andy McDonald, Keith Tkachuk, Shane Doan, Chris Drury, Patrick Kane

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.