need advice on a pool

[ourobouros]

Hi,

This year, im the one responsible for the hockey pool at my job. It<s a round based pool with a lot of participants. I<m tryng to do a balanced pool with not too many obvious choices. Can anyone here tell me if my pool is not too easy? (The scoring system is just points for fowards and victory for goalies) Thanks.

Ronde 1
Evgeni Malkin (Pit)
Claude Giroux (Phi)
A. Ovechkin (Wsh)
John Tavares (NYI)
Steven Stamkos (TB)

Ronde 2
Nicklas Backstrom (Wsh)
Taylor Hall (Edm)
Patrick Kane (Chi)
Phil Kessel (Tor)
Martin St-Louis (TB)

Ronde 3
Jonathan Toews (Chi)
James Neal (Pit)
Anze Kopitar (LA)
Ryan Getzlaf (Ana)
Pavel Datsyuk (Det)

Ronde 4
Jordan Eberle (Edm)
Rick Nash (NYR)
Eric Stall (Car)
Henrik Zetterberg (Det)
Jason Spezza (Ott)

Ronde 5
Matt Duchene (Col)
Logan Couture (SJ)
Matt Moulson (NYI)
Max Pacioretty (Mtl)
Tyler Seguin (Dal)

Ronde 6
Nazem Kadri (Tor)
Chris Kunitz (Pit)
Marian Gaborik (Clb)
Evander Kane (Wpg)
Bobby Ryan (Ott)

Ronde 7
Marian Hossa (Chi)
Thomas Vanek (Buf)
Jacub Voracek (Phi)
Brad Richards (NYR)
Mike Ribeiro (Wsh)

Ronde 8
Patrice Bergeron (Bos)
P-A Parenteau (Col)
Ryan Kesler (Van)
Blake Wheeler (Wpg)
Nail Yakupov (Edm)

Ronde 9
Patrick Elias (NJ)
Jarome Iginla (Bos)
Vincent Lecavalier (Phi)
R. Nugent-Hopkins (Edm)
Alexander Semin (Car)

Ronde 10
Andrew Ladd (Wpg)
Milan Lucic (Bos)
Paul Stastny (Col)
Derek Stepan (NYR)
Radim Vrbata (Phx)

Ronde 11
Daniel Alfredsson (Det)
Mikhail Grabovski (Wsh)
Scott Hartnell (Phi)
Jaromir Jagr (Dal)
Joffrey Lupul (Tor)

Ronde 12
J. Huberdeau (Flo)
Pascal Dupuis (Pit)
Gabriel Landeskog (Col)
Alex Galchenyuk (Mtl)
Jeff Skinner (Car)

Ronde 13
David Desharnais (Mtl)
Daniel Briere (Mtl)
Lars Eller (Mtl)
Brendan Gallagher (Mtl)
Brian Gionta (Mtl)

Ronde 14
Eric Cole (Dal)
Jonathan Drouin (TB)
Adam Henrique (NJ)
Jakob Silfverberg (Ana)
Jiri Tlusty (Car)

Ronde 15
Dustin Byfuglien (Wpg)
Mike Green (Wsh)
Erik Karlsson (Ott)
Kristopher Letang (Pit)
P.K. Subban (Mtl)

Ronde 16
Brian Campbell (Flo)
Mark Streit (Phi)
Andrei Markov (Mtl)
Justin Schultz (Edm)
Dion Phaneuf (Tor)

Ronde 17
O. Ekman-Larsson (Phx)
Michael Del Zotto (NYR)
Salva Voynov (LA)
Dan Boyle (SJ)
Sergei Gonchar (Dal)

Ronde 18
Henrik Lundqvist (NYR)
Jonathan Quick (LA)
Tuukka Rask (Bos)
Corey Crawford (Chi)
Antti Niemi (SJ)

Ronde 19
Braden Holtby (Wsh)
Carey Price (Mtl)
Marc-Andre Fleury (Pit)
Roberto Luongo (Van)
Sergei Bobrovsky (Cbj)

Ronde 20
Steve Mason (Phi)
Jonathan Bernier (Tor)
Jaroslav Halak (StL)
Jacob Markstrom (Flo)
Ben Bishop (TB)

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[Leviathan]

Looks pretty balanced to me. Some tough calls in there.

 

[drnaud81]

Looks pretty well balanced. Perhaps I would add another goalie round, and make one round for 1A/1B goalies that could gain or loose a starting job.

Round 20
J.Howard, D.Dubnyk, M.Smith, J.Markstrom, R.Miller

Round 21
R.Emery, C.Schneider, B.Bishop, V.Fasth, K.Ramo


Another suggestion could be to make round 14 a rookie-only round, with Drouin, McKinnon, Barkov, Toffoli and Strome (or others)

 

[Hutzler]

Looks pretty well balanced. Perhaps I would add another goalie round, and make one round for 1A/1B goalies that could gain or loose a starting job.

Round 20
J.Howard, D.Dubnyk, M.Smith, J.Markstrom, R.Miller

Round 21
R.Emery, C.Schneider, B.Bishop, V.Fasth, K.Ramo


Another suggestion could be to make round 14 a rookie-only round, with Drouin, McKinnon, Barkov, Toffoli and Strome (or others)

Was going to say something similar to this.

But for the most part it looks pretty balanced. A couple rounds have easy choices but most are pretty tough to choose one.

Unless "ronde" is a different language...make sure you spell "round" correct when you send it out

 

[gmen81]

Where is Crosby and the Sedins?

Looks pretty familiar to one my hockey team puts together.

 

[ourobouros]

Where is Crosby and the Sedins?

Looks pretty familiar to one my hockey team puts together.

Crosby is too strong/popular (he was in the 1st round but I was affraid that almost everyone would choose him) and the Sedins too predictable!

Unless "ronde" is a different language...make sure you spell "round" correct when you send it out

Its french for "round".

Thanks for the advice guys! Maybe im gonna add another goalies round as suggested... and after that roll the dice to make my own choices.

 

[ourobouros]

A couple rounds have easy choices but most are pretty tough to choose one.)

The only "easy" choise for me is Karlsson in round 15 and maybe Moulson in 5... apart from that, i'm really not sure. The easy part for me is to exclude player like Lupul (too fragile) or Drouin (rookies are way too unpredictable), but after that, it's almost a blind man's buff game...