81 Transactions / No goaltenders / Third Overall
Here along the Lake We have another team manager eliminated from playoff contention and the top five teams are in a quagmire of parity competing for the four playoff seedings.
Transactions In the past five days three team managers have been busy; there are defensemen that I rotate in and out of my weekly lineup, usually the ones rated at 1.7 points per game on average which is just low enough that most team managers do not notice them, but these defensemen are the ones who get me the most blocks, and the half points earned from them add up quickly.
This is why I am consistently moving (D) Chiarot, (D) Cole, (D) Pesce & (D) Lindell in and out of my lineup depending on which NHL team is playing and how many of my weekly allotment of transactions I have used, I am not losing anything even if another team manager selects one of these players for their roster because there are plenty of 1.7 rated players to go around.
My previous two transactions were to drop (D) Chiarot (rated 1.7) and added (D) Montour (rated 1.9) which strengthens my roster considerably, fortunately I am reviewing my watch list and the “add players” listing each day to notice which players are trending up to add to my watch list.
These are players I am currently monitoring, (D) Cole is rated a low 1.5 but has 98 blocks which can be useful and his NHL team Utah is the number one wild card seeded team in the Western Conference, so this player’s rating is a bit misleading so that most team managers will dismiss this player’s ability to contribute.
Six weekly matchups remaining before the playoff seedings are frozen and this final stretch of weeks is going to be interesting indeed.
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