Position Analysis · 2026-27

Which position covers each fantasy category, per-game category averages by position, and where draft value concentrates. Projected regulars (50+ GP).

Value concentration scored for Points league — G=3, A=2, PPP=1, SOG=0.4, HIT/BLK=0.3, PIM=0.3.

How many players clear a bar in FOW × PPP? — how a centre is judged in a faceoff league

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A man counts at every slot his league would start him in, so a C/LW clearing the bar is one more centre and one more left wing.

How many clear both bars · FOW across, PPP down · projected season totals

BLK × PPP HIT × BLK SOG+HIT+BLK PPP × SOG+HIT+BLK PPP · HIT · BLK PPP · HIT · SOG FOW × PPP

Forwards · 396 projected

PPP ↓ / FOW →	100+	200+	300+	500+	700+
30+	13	10	9	7	3
25+	21	17	14	11	6
20+	35	31	27	20	10
15+	53	45	41	28	13
10+	67	58	54	36	13

Defence omitted — that position does not produce faceoff wins in any meaningful quantity, so a grid of it would be noise.

Each cell counts the players who clear both bars — down the side and across the top — and opens the list of exactly those men. The top-right corner is what you have to draft early; five or fewer is highlighted. See the players →

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#	Player	Tm	Pos	ES	PP	PK	GP	G	A	PTS	PPP	SOG	HIT	BLK	PIM	FOW	FLOOR %
1	Leon Draisaitl EDM · C	EDM	C	L1	PP1	PK3	77	38.7	72.8	111.5	47.9	224	39	22	35	742	97.6
2	Nick Suzuki MTL · C	MTL	C	L1	PP1	PK3	83	30.8	72.7	103.5	41	184	63	63	25	725	97.1
3	Nathan MacKinnon COL · C	COL	C	L1	PP1	—	81	46.3	83.6	129.9	36	345	57	44	40	700	96.3
4	Aleksander Barkov FLA · C	FLA	C	L1	PP1	—	76	25.1	61	86.1	32.6	179	95	57	19	676	95.6
5	Sebastian Aho CAR · C	CAR	C	L1	PP1	PK2	81	30.7	54.3	85	28	203	62	25	46	626	93.1
6	Macklin Celebrini SJS · C	SJS	C	L1	PP1	PK3	79	43.3	76	119.3	36.6	314	51	52	40	600	92.6
7	Dylan Larkin DET · C	DET	C	—	—	—	79	35.8	38.3	74.1	27.1	231	47	34	46	838	92.3
8	Mika Zibanejad NYR · C	NYR	C	L1	PP1	PK1	81	27.3	44.4	71.7	31.2	196	82	48	17	568	90.5
9	Jack Eichel VGK · C	VGK	C	L1	PP1	PK1	76	29.5	66.6	96.1	31.1	256	33	46	17	561	90.3
10	Dylan Strome WSH · C	WSH	C	L2	PP1	—	82	21.5	44.7	66.2	25.4	142	15	53	40	754	90
11	Nico Hischier NJD · C	NJD	C	L2	PP1	PK1	80	32.2	39.9	72.1	25.2	202	53	60	25	991	89.1
12	Roope Hintz DAL · C	DAL	C	L2	PP1	—	74	26	40.3	66.3	24.2	162	67	33	26	507	88
13	Tomas Hertl VGK · C	VGK	C	L3	PP1	—	78	29.7	32.9	62.6	23.9	179	103	47	33	670	87.2
14	J.T. Miller NYR · C	NYR	C	L2	PP1	PK1	75	23	45.4	68.4	23.6	150	150	42	43	622	86.6
15	Elias Pettersson VAN · C	VAN	C	L1	PP1	PK1	77	19.9	41	60.9	23.6	141	78	100	20	608	86.6
16	Dylan Cozens OTT · C	OTT	C	L2	PP1	—	83	28.1	33.9	62	25	202	200	31	59	494	86.6
17	Mark Scheifele WPG · C	WPG	C	L1	PP1	PK3	80	30.8	60.3	91.1	22.9	167	43	47	46	591	85.7
18	Sidney Crosby PIT · C	PIT	C	L1	PP1	PK3	68	24.9	46.5	71.4	22.7	166	60	30	37	810	85.5
19	Connor McDavid EDM · C	EDM	C	L1	PP1	PK1	80	44.4	95.2	139.6	52.5	280	49	29	41	450	84
20	Auston Matthews TOR · C	TOR	C	L1	PP1	PK2	74	41.3	39.4	80.7	21	287	56	96	22	715	84
21	John Tavares TOR · C	TOR	C	L2	PP1	—	75	32.2	37.3	69.5	20.6	181	77	28	30	737	83.1
22	Robert Thomas STL · C	STL	C	L1	PP1	PK3	76	23.6	55.5	79.1	20.2	134	14	47	28	706	81.9
23	Leo Carlsson ANA · C	ANA	C	L1	PP1	PK3	77	31.5	47.6	79.1	19.8	208	20	36	34	420	81.4
24	Wyatt Johnston DAL · C	DAL	C	L1	PP1	—	83	42.7	45.9	88.6	39.6	226	53	51	29	408	80.7
25	Elias Lindholm BOS · C	BOS	C	L1	PP2	PK3	80	20.5	34	54.5	19.4	134	70	68	33	765	80.7
26	Nazem Kadri COL · C	COL	C	L2	PP2	—	76	24.2	33	57.2	18.9	211	51	28	40	510	79.5
27	Brayden Point TBL · C	TBL	C	L1	PP1	—	77	30.5	41	71.5	21.2	167	16	34	14	377	79.4
28	Tage Thompson BUF · C	BUF	C	L1	PP1	—	81	36.8	39.7	76.5	23.5	264	82	42	37	376	79.2
29	Marco Rossi VAN · C	VAN	C	L1	PP1	PK3	75	18	34.1	52.1	18.6	116	62	41	23	411	78.9
30	Ryan O'Reilly NSH · C	NSH	C	L1	PP1	PK1	75	22.9	41	63.9	18.5	135	17	59	20	695	78.7
31	Pavel Zacha BOS · C	BOS	C	L2	PP1	—	82	23.6	36.9	60.5	18.4	130	69	28	26	501	78.4
32	Nick Schmaltz UTA · C	UTA	L	L1	PP1	PK2	79	26.8	41.2	68	21.1	180	20	46	23	338	77.7
33	Matt Duchene DAL · C	DAL	C	—	—	—	71	19.6	38.5	58.1	18.3	115	31	26	12	336	77.1
34	Joel Eriksson Ek MIN · C	MIN	C	L2	PP1	PK2	72	23.2	31.6	54.8	17.2	198	116	40	35	692	76.6
35	Logan Cooley UTA · C	UTA	C	L2	PP1	PK3	70	25.7	32.9	58.6	17.6	150	64	32	36	331	76.6
36	Chandler Stephenson SEA · C	SEA	C	L2	PP1	PK1	81	12.5	35.3	47.8	16.5	86	28	53	18	755	75.9
37	Steven Stamkos NSH · C	NSH	L	L1	PP1	—	76	29	24.5	53.5	23.8	174	75	36	48	326	75.9
38	Bo Horvat NYI · C	NYI	C	L1	PP1	PK2	79	32.5	30.9	63.4	16.1	238	69	42	36	789	75.1
39	Mikael Granlund ANA · C	ANA	L	L2	PP1	PK2	73	18.7	31.7	50.4	15.7	132	46	51	24	417	74.5
40	Morgan Frost CGY · C	CGY	C	L2	PP1	—	80	17.9	22.3	40.2	15.5	135	62	45	26	558	73.5
41	Anton Frondell CHI · C	CHI	C	L2	PP1	—	87	31.5	12.6	44.1	15.5	228	63	57	21	497	73.5
42	Tim Stützle OTT · C	OTT	C	L1	PP1	PK1	81	32.7	58.9	91.6	33.7	202	126	45	41	295	73.4
43	Connor Bedard CHI · C	CHI	C	—	—	—	67	30.9	50	80.9	24	230	36	28	48	251	69.8
44	Brady Tkachuk FLA · L	FLA	L	L1	PP1	—	76	36.1	43.3	79.4	26.4	298	222	27	102	216	66.8
45	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM · C	EDM	C	—	—	—	77	20.7	37.7	58.4	27.8	141	30	35	24	213	66.5
46	Jack Hughes NJD · C	NJD	C	L1	PP1	—	72	36	63.6	99.6	32.5	286	7	36	15	197	65.3
47	Evgeni Malkin PIT · C	PIT	R	L2	PP2	—	60	17.6	38.1	55.7	19.4	133	26	26	54	181	64.1
48	Jake Guentzel TBL · C	TBL	L	L2	PP1	PK3	81	37.8	49.4	87.2	30.2	220	39	43	48	180	63.5
49	Mathew Barzal NYI · C	NYI	C	—	—	—	72	20.3	48.3	68.6	17.9	166	32	45	46	157	61.7
50	Sam Reinhart FLA · C	FLA	R	L1	PP1	PK1	78	35.6	40.3	75.9	30.9	199	78	52	18	129	60.1
51	Morgan Geekie BOS · C	BOS	L	L2	PP1	—	80	27.4	27.6	55	19.2	159	111	35	24	125	59.7
52	Trevor Zegras PHI · C	PHI	L	L2	PP1	—	74	21.6	37.4	59	18.7	150	47	28	52	119	58.7
53	Mitch Marner VGK · R	VGK	R	L2	PP1	PK2	82	22.9	66.5	89.4	29.1	170	35	46	22	101	57.2

Projected season totals, with the even-strength line and special-teams unit each projection is built on. Sort any column.

Positional context· per-game averages, category leaders and where value thins out

Category leaders · highest per-game average by position

0.25/gm

0.35/gm

0.6/gm

PPP

0.16/gm

SHP

0.01/gm

SOG

1.92/gm

HIT

1.41/gm

BLK

1.4/gm

4.99/gm

PIM

0.51/gm

+/-

0.03/gm

Per-game averages by position

Pos	n	G	A	P	PPP	SHP	SOG	HIT	BLK	FW	PIM	+/-
C	179	0.23	0.34	0.57	0.14	0.01	1.72	1.05	0.56	4.99	0.43	-0.01
LW	97	0.23	0.3	0.53	0.12	0.01	1.83	1.41	0.46	0.31	0.49	0
RW	103	0.25	0.35	0.6	0.16	0.01	1.92	1.15	0.47	0.26	0.44	0
D	195	0.07	0.26	0.33	0.07	0.01	1.31	1.01	1.4	0	0.51	0.03

Value scarcity · position mix among top-100 by multi-cat z

Tier	C	LW	RW	D
top 25	11	7	4	3
26-50	8	4	9	4
51-100	18	9	17	6

Reads: D lead BLK, C lead FW/assists, wingers lead shots/goals — and where value thins out by position tells you which to draft early.

PPP ↓ / FOW →	100+	200+	300+	500+	700+
30+	13	10	9	7	3
25+	21	17	14	11	6
20+	35	31	27	20	10
15+	53	45	41	28	13
10+	67	58	54	36	13

PPP ↓ / FOW →	100+	200+	300+	500+	700+
30+	13	10	9	7	3
25+	21	17	14	11	6
20+	35	31	27	20	10
15+	53	45	41	28	13
10+	67	58	54	36	13

PPP ↓ / FOW →	100+	200+	300+	500+	700+
30+	13	10	9	7	3
25+	21	17	14	11	6
20+	35	31	27	20	10
15+	53	45	41	28	13
10+	67	58	54	36	13