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Player Salaries

Position: Note: P Val = fppg / salary * 1000

Select	Name	GP	Pos	Salary	FPPG	P Val	Updated	Change	Prev Date

Select	Cedrick Desjardins	2	G	5100	9.10	1.78	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers	1	G	7600	7.20	0.95	03/14/2012	100	03/13/2012
Select	Robin Lehner	5	G	5700	6.60	1.16	03/20/2012	100	03/06/2012
Select	Michael Leighton	1	G	7700	6.40	0.83	03/29/2012	-400	03/27/2012
Select	Brian Elliott	36	G	8300	6.40	0.77	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Cory Schneider	30	G	8200	6.30	0.77	03/30/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Henrik Lundqvist	58	G	9600	6.20	0.65	03/30/2012	100	03/27/2012
Select	Alex Stalock	1	G	5100	5.80	1.14	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Kari Lehtonen	55	G	8600	5.70	0.66	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Pekka Rinne	69	G	9200	5.60	0.61	03/30/2012	-500	03/27/2012
Select	Mike Smith	62	G	8600	5.60	0.65	03/29/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Jon Quick	65	G	8500	5.50	0.65	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Tim Thomas	56	G	8800	5.50	0.63	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jaroslav Halak	43	G	8800	5.50	0.63	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jimmy Howard	52	G	8600	5.50	0.64	03/30/2012	-400	03/20/2012
Select	Johan Hedberg	26	G	8400	5.50	0.65	03/29/2012	300	03/06/2012
Select	Roberto Luongo	52	G	8700	5.40	0.62	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Ryan Miller	57	G	8700	5.30	0.61	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Tuukka Rask	23	G	7900	5.30	0.67	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Justin Peters	7	G	6800	5.30	0.78	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Anton Khudobin	4	G	5100	5.30	1.04	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Marc-Andre Fleury	64	G	8800	5.20	0.59	03/30/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Miikka Kiprusoff	68	G	8700	5.20	0.60	03/30/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Craig Anderson	56	G	9100	5.10	0.56	03/20/2012	100	03/20/2012
Select	Tomas Vokoun	47	G	8500	5.00	0.59	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Ilya Bryzgalov	57	G	8600	4.90	0.57	03/29/2012	-400	03/27/2012
Select	Cam Ward	65	G	8600	4.90	0.57	03/30/2012	100	03/27/2012
Select	Jean-Sebastien Giguere	31	G	7600	4.90	0.64	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Semyon Varlamov	51	G	8200	4.90	0.60	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jose Theodore	50	G	7600	4.90	0.64	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Antti Niemi	63	G	8200	4.80	0.59	03/29/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Braden Holtby	5	G	5200	4.80	0.92	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Niklas Backstrom	42	G	7900	4.80	0.61	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Carey Price	64	G	8200	4.70	0.57	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Martin Biron	20	G	7400	4.70	0.64	03/30/2012	-200	03/20/2012
Select	Richard Bachman	16	G	6900	4.70	0.68	03/30/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Jacob Markstrom	7	G	6700	4.60	0.69	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Evgeni Nabokov	42	G	6400	4.60	0.72	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Devan Dubnyk	43	G	7400	4.60	0.62	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Joey MacDonald	14	G	6300	4.50	0.71	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Ondrej Pavelec	65	G	7900	4.50	0.57	03/30/2012	-500	03/20/2012
Select	Ben Bishop	6	G	5500	4.50	0.82	03/20/2012	400	03/06/2012
Select	Josh Harding	32	G	7200	4.40	0.61	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Curtis McElhinney	2	G	6000	4.40	0.73	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Scott Clemmensen	27	G	7500	4.30	0.57	03/30/2012	100	02/23/2012
Select	Thomas Greiss	18	G	6100	4.30	0.70	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Martin Brodeur	55	G	7900	4.20	0.53	03/29/2012	-400	03/20/2012
Select	Jonas Hiller	64	G	8300	4.20	0.51	03/14/2012	100	03/13/2012
Select	Corey Crawford	53	G	7600	4.20	0.55	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jhonas Enroth	25	G	7200	4.20	0.58	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	James Reimer	34	G	6800	4.10	0.60	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jonas Gustavsson	42	G	7200	4.10	0.57	03/29/2012	-300	03/20/2012
Select	Mathieu Garon	48	G	7100	4.00	0.56	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Sergei Bobrovsky	25	G	6500	4.00	0.62	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Antero Niittymaki	24	G	7600	3.90	0.51	03/29/2012	-400	03/27/2012
Select	Nikolai Khabibulin	39	G	7200	3.90	0.54	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Ray Emery	33	G	6500	3.80	0.58	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Leland Irving	7	G	6100	3.80	0.62	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Kevin Poulin	6	G	5300	3.70	0.70	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Jonathan Bernier	15	G	6400	3.70	0.58	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Curtis Sanford	36	G	6100	3.70	0.61	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Peter Budaj	13	G	6200	3.60	0.58	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Chris Mason	18	G	7100	3.50	0.49	03/30/2012	-300	03/20/2012
Select	Michal Neuvirth	34	G	7500	3.50	0.47	03/29/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Matthew Hackett	12	G	5700	3.50	0.61	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Mikko Koskinen	4	G	5100	3.40	0.67	03/29/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Al Montoya	25	G	5400	3.40	0.63	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Steve Mason	44	G	7400	3.40	0.46	03/30/2012	-300	03/20/2012
Select	Ben Scrivens	8	G	6500	3.30	0.51	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Brad Thiessen	5	G	6200	3.10	0.50	03/30/2012	200	03/27/2012
Select	Andrew Raycroft	10	G	6100	3.10	0.51	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Jason LaBarbera	19	G	6400	3.00	0.47	03/29/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Dwayne Roloson	36	G	6500	3.00	0.46	03/29/2012	-300	03/27/2012
Select	Ty Conklin	15	G	6100	3.00	0.49	03/30/2012	100	03/06/2012
Select	Rick DiPietro	8	G	5300	2.60	0.49	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Anders Lindback	14	G	5300	2.60	0.49	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Dan Ellis	10	G	7300	2.40	0.33	03/14/2012	100	03/13/2012
Select	Marty Turco	3	G	7100	2.20	0.31	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Brian Boucher	8	G	7100	2.20	0.31	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Brent Johnson	13	G	6300	2.20	0.35	03/30/2012	-200	03/27/2012
Select	Dustin Tokarski	5	G	5100	2.10	0.41	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Nathan Lawson	10	G	5100	2.10	0.41	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Matt Climie	1	G	5100	2.00	0.39	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Mike McKenna	2	G	5200	2.00	0.38	03/20/2012	100	03/06/2012
Select	Henrik Karlsson	7	G	5100	1.90	0.37	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Alex Auld	14	G	6100	1.90	0.31	03/20/2012	100	03/20/2012
Select	Allan York	8	G	4900	1.60	0.33	03/30/2012	100	03/01/2012
Select	Mark Dekanich	1	G	5100	1.40	0.27	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Peter Mannino	1	G	5100	0.80	0.16	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Dany Sabourin	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	David LeNeveu	1	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Cristobal Huet	0	G	7400	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-200	03/20/2012
Select	Eddie Lack	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Johan Backlund	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Manny Legace	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Alexander Salak	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Yann Danis	1	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Harri Sateri	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Tyler Plante	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Jason Bacashihua	0	G	5100	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012	-100	03/27/2012
Select	Keith Kinkaid	0	G	3000	0.00	0.00	03/29/2012
Select	Chad Johnson	1	G	5100	-0.20	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Thomas McCollum	1	G	5100	-2.00	0.00	03/30/2012	-100	03/20/2012
Select	Timo Pielmeier	1	G	3000	-3.60	0.00	03/29/2012
Select	Tyler Weiman		G	3000		0.00	03/01/2011
Select	Nolan Schaefer		G	3000		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	Erik Ersberg		G	4500		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	Patrick Lalime		G	4800		0.00	03/15/2011
Select	Pascal Leclaire		G	6300		0.00	03/24/2011	100	12/16/2010
Select	Martin Gerber		G	3600		0.00	03/24/2011	200	03/01/2011
Select	Mike Brodeur		G	4500		0.00	03/24/2011	-100	01/25/2011
Select	Bryan Pitton		G	3000		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	John Grahame		G	3000		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	John Curry		G	3000		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	Alexander Pechurski		G	3100		0.00	03/24/2011
Select	Chris Osgood		G	5300		0.00	03/09/2011	200	12/23/2010

Starting Goalies

Date:

		Team	GP	W	L	OTL	Pts	Pts Delta	GF	GA	Goal Diff	Diff Delta	Last 10	Streak
		No games on the schedule tonight. Guess it's time to go outside and get some exercise or something.

Scoring System

Salary Cap: $55k (most games)
Positions: LW(2), RW(2), C(2) D(2), G

Goalies:
Wins = 4pts
SO = 2pts
Saves = 0.2pts
Goals against = -1pt

Skaters
Goals = 3pts
Assists = 2pts
+/- = 1pt
PIMs = 0.5pts
PPG = 1pt
PPA = 1pt
Shots = 0.4pts,

Strategy

The first strategy you need to master is identifying value in players. With a salary-based budget, it's critical to identify players who are undervalued, so you can free up cap space to spend on a guy like Malkin or Stamkos. In this format, defensemen are of little relative value, so your best bet is to spend the absolute minimum possible on this position. To start the season, guys like John Carlsson and P.K. Subban were very cheap. Their price has been steadily rising, so you have to be watching for new cheaper options to pop up.

Rosters for Fanduel play 1 goalie and 2 each at LW,RW,C, and D. When setting your lineup, start at the goalie position. Remember, it's just for 1 night, so it's critical you identify who's starting. Several websites offer starting goalie information that is fairly reliable. For the best information, go to the local sources for that team, as they'll often post it on a blogger site, twitter, or even on the team's homepage. If you can find value at this position, go for it. Often times, NHL teams will start a backup against a weaker opponent. Backups tend to come at a lower cost, so you can make out if you play this right. For example, on Fanduel, a top goalie like Miller or Luongo may cost 8K of your 55K cap. You might get a starting backup on a good team for 3 or 4K, which obviously leaves room to add better options on offense.

Next, identify the 2 cheapest defensemen that have any hope of getting you points. In general, defensemen produce 1/2 as much in points as forwards, so you're wasting your money buy placing a mid to top level defenseman on your roster. One thing to look for at defense is penalty minutes. While points from the D are hard to predict, penalty minutes are more predictable.

After filling your crease and blueline, it's time to spend your money where it matters most, on offense. Start from the bottom up and identify one or two players you can tolerate at a lower pricetag. Next, add a couple of top end forwards to the mix. Finally, play around with the last couple of spots with what you have left. Once you've filled your roster, check how much cap space you have remaining. Take a look at your cheaper options one by one and see how much of an upgrade you make with what you have left.

5 and 10 Player Leagues

The strategy is basically the same when playing in a larger league, versus challenging a single opponent. However, one thing to pay attention to in a larger league is pitting your skaters against your goalie. For example, if Tampa Bay is playing Buffalo, do you really want to have Stamkos and St. Louis on offense, with Miller in net? Every goal scored by your forwards will offset on your goalie's goals against. In a head-to-head setting, it's not that big of a deal; however, when you play in a larger league with 10 teams, you're going to need every point possible to win. Best bet in a bigger league is to avoid this scenario.