Drafting Basics

1. Time left for the person picking
2. When you want to draft a player that you have selected, press the DRAFT button
3. How many picks until your pick
4. Status of player to be picked – green dot = expected to play next game; orange = pending (most goalies and players that have not yet been confirmed to play); red = inactive (injured, benched, Covid, etc.)
5. Show how many players on your team are left to draft by position; if you toggle to F so that it is highlighted, only forwards will appear below for you to select from; if you toggle none, all F, D and G will be displayed, etc.
6. Shows number of projected games [PG] for that player in the next week
7. Shows projected average fantasy points per game
8. Shows season average fantasy points per game
9. Shows projected fantasy points over the week
   ***highlighting the column (6, 7, 8, 9 above), will sort by that stat. You’ll see the ranking by position(s) selected. In this example, the pAVG [projected average fantasy points per game] is how the players are sorted by***
10. By clicking on the “+” in the circle, the player will be added to your player queue on the left-hand side of the screen; consider this your “worksheet” to populate with players that you want in between your picks; this feature is SUPER helpful
11. This is where your queue will be displayed; if someone picks a player who is in your queue, he will disappear; the queue is only a worksheet – when it comes time to pick a player, you still need to click the DRAFT button for the player you want
12. All the teams listed in the draft; if you toggle between the teams you will see who they have picked; toggle to your team when it is your turn to pick
13. The numerator is game opportunities projected by players by position selected on your team – in this example, 12 game opportunities are projected for the 3 forwards that have been selected so far; the denominator of the available number of game opportunities by position, which is always 16 for forwards, 10 for defense and 4 for goalies
14. Your team and open slots

OTHER TIPS

• When you sort by PROJ, the top players displayed will generally be goalies because of how the points work including 10 points for a win and 1 for a save, but remember that you are limited to 4 goalie opportunities per week, so picking 2 goalies that each have high projected points for the week needs to be balanced with the fact that only 4 games will “count”
• Having more games than game opportunities is generally a good thing because it will give you added flexibility
• Covid has thrown a wrench into the NHL schedule and accordingly to the contest; thankfully anyone out with Covid can be swapped out for free; conversely, there may be players NOT picked because of Covid cancellations who can be picked up later with your swaps 
• Do it on a desktop or iPad because the screen size is bigger
• Use your time between picks to populate your queue