My 2016 Pool Projections

It's that time of year again, time to really start buckling down and getting your projections done for the coming year and the upcoming draft, which is only a few short weeks away.  Fortunately for you clowns, I've already got a head start on you and have a good idea about what's going on here.  You can click on the logos below for each team's own projection post or you can scroll down and keep clicking on the older posts to see each team in alphabetical order.

So, what do you need to know about these projection posts?  First, a lot of the conceptions about where players are going to land are based on a 23-team hockey pool draft.  In my draft this year, the pool could be 23 teams big again, could be less, could be a few more.  Who knows?  For these projections, I'm basing it on being the same as last year, which seems safe.

First round picks?  How many points would a player need to be a 1st round pick?  Well, for 23 teams, you're looking at 75 points, but fortunately for teams picking 22nd or 23rd in the draft, they pick right away, 24th and 25th.  You can do a lot of good in those picks, especially if you manage to find a bargain pick in the late 1st round or early 2nd round, a player that finishes in the top five in scoring.

Other pool worthy picks, the forwards will need to be in the 35-point range, defensemen will be in the 20-point range and goalies should be in the 30-point range.  At projection time, there will be a number of players that fit that range, hopefully enough that if we have a bunch more teams in the pool, it will at least cover the newbies.



Tomorrow, I'll be outlining the rookie content that I've covered through all 30 teams, especially since we will be making them a little bit more interesting in this coming year's hockey pool.

I am hoping that in a week or two, there will be a printable PDF version of all of these projection posts, something you can take to your draft, assuming that they all work on the same basis as my pool.