How was my draft? Please critique.

[dancecommand]

19 team league, rotisserie.
Categories are: Goals, Assists, +/-, PIMs, PPP, SOG, Wins, SV, GAA, SO

C: Granlund
C: Henrique
C: Coyle
LW: Hertl
LW: Zuccs
RW: Tarasenko
RW: Niederreiter
D: Burns
D: Niskanen
D: Fowler
D: Streit
D: Reilly
G: Carey Price
G: Fleury
G: Mason
G: Bernier

Do I have a chance of winning?

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[Pierre Dagenais]

19 team league and you got those 4 goalies? Pretty good.

 

[islesforlife]

You might be a little low in some scoring categories. But if you're really concerned about that, you could offer a goalie to a team for almost anyone. I gotta know what your draft order was. How did you get those four?

 

[dancecommand]

I had the 14th pick, my first 4 picks were
Price (14)
Fleury (25)
Mason (52)
Bernier (63).

 

[rangerssharks414]

I definitely would have taken more offense, especially over Mason, who I do not like. I think you took Bernier too early as well. Maybe you can get some team to overpay for one of your goalies.

 

[King Mapes]

I agree with the guy above me. Where did Schneider go? If he was available at 25, I'd take him over Fleury. But never take 4 goalies with your first 4 picks. 2, maybe but not 4.

 

[junyab]

4 goalies...ya, not good.

The major issue with drafting so many goalies is the non-cumulative stats. You won't get a better GAA and SV% with having more goalie starts...and that's 2 of the 4 stats. Whereas with F and D only 1 stat is non-cumulative (+/-).

So now your F and D won't be competitive, in fact, you'll be lucky if you see a couple of your forwards over 60pts.

 

[Yarbles02]

When you have Price, you certainly do not need 3 more goalies, bang, bang, bang. You would have a perfect team for a keeper league with all that youth.

 

[swslave1]

If you can rely on members of your league to be active and willing trade partners, I think this is a decent strategy. That is a big IF, but if you know the other managers well and can negotiate a good deal for yourself you shouldn't have a problem. With 19 teams in your league and 4 starters on your roster alone, there must be at least a couple managers hurting for a goaltender - you must exploit them. If they don't want one of the guys you have, work a multi-team trade. You'll definitely want to make a deal sooner rather than later, or an injury/poor play will threaten to damage your investment.

Emphasize the fact that goalies comprise 40% of the scoring categories in your league. Especially for the manager who drafts Halak, Pavelec, and/or Neuvirth/Enroth