2026-27 Fantasy Guide

Everything to walk into your draft prepared and finish in the money — value tiers and bargains for draft day, the sleepers and fades to target, and the schedule context that wins titles. Every number is model-built and traces to real data.

700+ players projectedYour #1 Connor McDavidBiggest riser Beckett Sennecke84-game season · updated daily
Team previews
Every club, written the same way: where the model has them finishing, the projected lines and pairs with each man's points beside him, both special-teams units, the schedule shape that decides weekly leagues, and the camp battles still open. The lineup is a sandbox — move a player up a line or onto PP1 and every projection on the page moves with him, so you can price a promotion before the coach makes it.
ANABOSBUFCGYCARCHICOLCBJDALDETEDMFLALAKMINMTLNSHNJDNYINYROTTPHIPITSJSSEASTLTBLTORUTAVANVGKWSHWPG
All 32 previews →Projected standings →Preseason lines →
Articles
Written off the same projections as everything else here, and every name, number and stat line in them traces to a row in the database rather than a turn of phrase.
Nothing published yet. Pieces land here through the draft season — the archive is where they will be.
Draft centre
Three steps, in order. Read the league, settle on the numbers you trust, then take them to the draft — on the portal if you want your picks synced live, on the workbook if you want a board that needs no connection at all. Draft night is exactly when a site you depend on is least likely to be the thing you want to depend on.
1Read the league
Where the tiers break, who the room will overpay for, and what your own schedule does to a roster.
Your Draft PlanRound-by-round targets for your league — what to take, and when.Open →Draft TiersThe top skaters grouped into tiers, so you know when a cliff is coming.Open →Sleepers & FadesWho to reach for, and who the room will overpay for.Open →Value vs ADPWhere the model disagrees with the room — the players you can wait on, and the ones you cannot.Open →
2Settle your numbers
Every draft surface below reads whichever of these you pick. Change nothing and you draft off the model.
Advanced Projection SandboxArrange a club — lines, pairs, power play, kill — and the projection follows the minutes. The tool for when the disagreement is about deployment.Open →Custom Point ProjectionsThree columns. Type over goals, assists or points for anyone; everything you do not touch keeps tracking the model.Open →Projections & importEvery skater and goalie, 300 deep — or upload a projection file of your own and draft off that instead.Open →
3Draft
The portal syncs your picks from Yahoo or ESPN as they happen. The workbook needs no connection at all.
Draft PortalPrep, mock and live. Rehearse against bots that reach and slide like a real room, then run the night with your picks synced.Open →Draft WorkbookThe whole night on one sheet: pick entry, the clock, 300 available, the ledger, scarcity and your roster — offline.Open →Classic BoardThe single-page board, with every pick tradeable and a printable blank.Open →Replacement ValueWhat a player is worth above the man you could have had for free at his position.Open →
Your league pick a format and the guide re-ranks for it
H2H / Roto PointsH2H CategoriesBanger LeaguePoints-Only⚙ Norfolk in Chance⚙ Norfolk in Chance

H2H / Roto Points — Standard points scoring — goals, assists, and peripherals all count. Scoring: G=3, A=2, PPP=1, SOG=0.4, HIT/BLK=0.3, PIM=0.3

The Board top 12 for H2H / Roto PointsAll draft tiers →
1Connor McDavidEDM · C · 78 GPfield #2 · +143G93A51PPP273SOG48HIT28BLK40PIM2Nathan MacKinnonCOL · C · 79 GPfield #1 · -145G82A35PPP336SOG56HIT43BLK39PIM3Macklin CelebriniSJS · C · 79 GPfield #4 · +144G76A37PPP314SOG51HIT52BLK40PIM4Nikita KucherovTBL · R · 76 GPfield #3 · -137G90A42PPP235SOG34HIT29BLK44PIM5David PastrnakBOS · R · 80 GPfield #7 · +237G73A33PPP288SOG78HIT29BLK61PIM6Leon DraisaitlEDM · C · 77 GPfield #5 · -145G73A48PPP224SOG39HIT22BLK35PIM7Brady TkachukFLA · L · 76 GPfield #21 · +1433G43A27PPP297SOG222HIT27BLK103PIM8Jason RobertsonDAL · L · 81 GPfield #13 · +542G54A37PPP269SOG53HIT36BLK28PIM9Nick SuzukiMTL · C · 82 GPfield #22 · +1331G72A41PPP182SOG63HIT62BLK25PIM10Mikko RantanenDAL · R · 78 GPfield #19 · +932G66A38PPP189SOG55HIT39BLK87PIM11Auston MatthewsTOR · C · 75 GPfield #10 · -140G40A21PPP291SOG56HIT97BLK22PIM12Wyatt JohnstonDAL · C · 82 GPfield #27 · +1544G46A39PPP224SOG53HIT51BLK29PIM

Projected 2026-27 totals in the categories H2H / Roto Points counts. The bar shows overall value for that format. Field # is where the room ranks him — a big + means he goes later than he should in your format, so you can wait on him.

Draft-day edges who to chase and who to let goFull list →
📈 Sleepers · young risers
Beckett SenneckeANA · R · 20G 0.28→0.39A 0.45→0.56PPP 0.16→0.23Ivan DemidovMTL · R · 20G 0.23→0.29A 0.52→0.65PPP 0.24→0.32Matthew SchaeferNYI · D · 19G 0.28→0.3A 0.44→0.56PPP 0.22→0.3Jimmy SnuggerudSTL · R · 22G 0.3→0.36A 0.43→0.52PPP 0.13→0.2Matvei MichkovPHI · R · 21G 0.25→0.31A 0.38→0.48PPP 0.15→0.21
📉 Fades · let someone else pay
Darren RaddyshTOR · D · 30G 0.3→0.19A 0.66→0.57PPP 0.36→0.27Teddy BluegerTOR · C · 32G 0.26→0.12A 0.23→0.19PPP 0.03→0.01Shayne GostisbehereCAR · D · 33G 0.24→0.17A 0.67→0.61PPP 0.33→0.34Bobby McMannSEA · C · 30G 0.37→0.27A 0.22→0.2PPP 0.08→0.07Sean WalkerCAR · D · 31G 0.11→0.09A 0.27→0.21PPP 0.01→0.01
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Explore the guide everything, chapter by chapter
Rankings & Tiers
Your Draft PlanRound-by-round targets for your league — the capstone.Open →Draft TiersTop ~120 skaters grouped into value tiers.Open →Full ProjectionsEvery player's full-category forecast.Open →By PositionWhere the real positional drop-offs are.Open →Custom RankingsRe-rank for your league's exact categories.Open →
Value & Strategy
Trade Value ChartOne number per player, plus a durability flag.Open →Value vs ADPWhere our model disagrees with the field.Open →Draft KitThe one-page cheat sheet.Open →
Targets to Know
Sleepers & FadesYoung risers to draft, vets to avoid.Open →Peripheral BreakoutsHits/blocks/shots category swingers.Open →Impact RookiesFirst-years who matter on draft day.Open →Role ChangesWho's moving up (or down) a line.Open →
Season Context
Schedule StrengthOff-nights and the playoff weeks that win titles.Open →Team PreviewsAll 32 teams — finish, lines, special teams.Open →Projected StandingsWhere the model has every team finishing.Open →Preseason LinesProjected opening-night combinations.Open →
Fantasy hockey draft FAQ
When is the 2026-27 fantasy hockey draft season?

NHL opening night is September 29, 2026, so most fantasy drafts run from roughly September 8 through 28. Rankings, tiers and sleepers on this page are updated daily through that window.

Can I get fantasy hockey rankings for my own league's scoring?

Yes. Link your Yahoo, ESPN or Fantrax league and the entire guide — tiers, values, sleepers and the round-by-round plan — re-scores for your league's exact categories and point values, not a generic default.

How are these projections built?

Four seasons of player rates, recency-weighted and regressed to a position baseline by sample size, age-adjusted, with goals blended toward expected goals. The method is backtested against held-out seasons.

What's the difference between a points league and a categories league here?

Points leagues rank by projected fantasy points using your scoring weights; categories leagues rank by your edge in each counted stat as summed z-scores. The guide switches between them, and a banger-league board looks very different from a points board.