Nothing to Lose!

Great strategy for those that are way out of it and throwing hail marys.

I am in this spot in the Expert League and I have acquired Michalek and Afinogenov this way (the latter via waivers, using my priority up) and I traded Poti for Emery (for some reason he wanted that over Ballard...I was ready to give him Ballard! A 'sell high' player!)

I'm also hanging in there with guys who should have done better - Ryan Whitney and Chris Mason. I will go with four goalies - Turco, Emery, Mason and Ramo. All are starters right now and since I have 20 games to make up for goalies, now is the time to roll all four of them, with Turco and Emery as the priority.

Anyway, just wanted to give my stamp of approval to a fabulous strategy by the frog. Kudos!

I think Eric is bang on, of course. However, I also think the strategy holds true to some extent in tightly competed leagues - I am in a points league that has a log jam at the top of the first 7 teams - playing musical leader. I think the team that pulls away is the one that grabs the right underperformer(s).

That is a little different than grabbing a handful and hoping for the best, of course. Look at my team below. I am in the mix but would like to be ahead of the mix but simply can't break away. Vanek, Bouwmeester, Bergeron and Elias are sitting there not because they are currently the best performers available but because they have the potential to break out and give me an edge. I am not broke of course because I have some potential as well sitting on IR.

However, here is a story for you - last year in this same league in early January I was sitting last or second last about 400 points from the leader. I did exactly what the Frog is suggesting and I made up 260 points only to lose out on 2nd place by the margin of the last goal scored in the season by Stastny - with 46 seconds to go I was in 2nd. It was a blast.

Good piece again Eric.

wonderful recommendations on second half strategy. Of course, he always has wonderful recommendations on fantasy strategy.

I somewhat wonder why he recommends picking up conklin over lehtonen to replace price.

Has lehtonen (and atlanta in general) fallen so far that an admittibly good career backup substituting for an injured starting goalie is worth more?

Do people just not trust lehtonen anymore or what? I'd take a young proven starter over an older guy that's never shown consistancy in his career any day of the week.

Conklin is an admittedly horrible backup goalie who is riding the hot streak of his freaking life. I've got 2 more games left on my tab before it runs out and he comes back down to earth. Ya gotta take Lehtonen for sure! Perhaps this was a case of just forgetting about Lehtonen?