Fantasy Hockey Streamers (2023-01-14)
This is a list of potential short-term streamers who were selected by a bot, not by me personally. Is it a good idea to use a bot to find streamers? See the note at the end of this post for my thoughts on the topic.
OK, let’s look at the upcoming schedule and then see who made the 18_SKATERS_BOT’s list of streamers.
The NHL Schedule
There are 4 off days in the 8-day period that starts today. An “off day” is a day on which there are 16 or fewer teams playing (i.e., it is capped at half the teams in the NHL).
The 18_SKATERS_BOT’s Streamers
Here are the robo-recommended streamers for the current 8-day period. Only skaters who are on a roster in fewer than 60% of Yahoo leagues were eligible for selection.
The skaters are ranked based on their Score which essentially means they’re ranked according to who is most likely to get goals/assists in a game (relative to the other skaters on the list).
Scroll down to the next table if you’re targeting a skater from a specific team.
| Skater | Position | Team | Roster % | Off Days | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viktor Arvidsson | LW,RW | LA | 31 | 0 | 3.9 |
| Jordan Eberle | RW | SEA | 24 | 1 | 3.1 |
| Calle Jarnkrok | C,LW,RW | TOR | 16 | 1 | 2.0 |
| Scott Laughton | C,LW | PHI | 19 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Evan Rodrigues | C,LW,RW | COL | 18 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Mason McTavish | C,LW | ANA | 24 | 1 | 1.7 |
| Seth Jarvis | LW,RW | CAR | 27 | 1 | 1.6 |
| J.T. Compher | C,RW | COL | 19 | 2 | 1.6 |
| Jack Roslovic | C | CBJ | 4 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Brandon Hagel | LW,RW | TB | 59 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Kevin Hayes | C,LW | PHI | 27 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Daniel Sprong | LW,RW | SEA | 8 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Eeli Tolvanen | LW,RW | SEA | 10 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Matty Beniers | C | SEA | 53 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Alexander Barabanov | LW,RW | SJ | 7 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Ryan Hartman | C,RW | MIN | 33 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Carter Verhaeghe | LW | FLA | 58 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Logan Couture | C | SJ | 50 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Robert Thomas | C | STL | 58 | 0 | 1.1 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | BUF | 56 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Casey Mittelstadt | C | BUF | 3 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Brandon Saad | LW | STL | 6 | 0 | 1.0 |
| Dylan Strome | C,RW | WSH | 24 | 1 | 0.8 |
| Bryan Rust | RW | PIT | 57 | 2 | 0.8 |
| Kasperi Kapanen | RW | PIT | 2 | 2 | 0.8 |
| Lawson Crouse | LW,RW | ARI | 14 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Tomas Tatar | LW,RW | NJ | 20 | 0 | 0.7 |
| Brett Pesce | D | CAR | 7 | 1 | 0.7 |
| Andre Burakovsky | LW,RW | SEA | 45 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Conor Timmins | D | TOR | 2 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Phillip Danault | C | LA | 35 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Taylor Hall | LW | BOS | 57 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Nick Ritchie | LW | ARI | 4 | 2 | 0.5 |
| Juuso Parssinen | C | NSH | 3 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Mikael Granlund | C,RW | NSH | 10 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Mason Marchment | LW,RW | DAL | 22 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Ilya Mikheyev | LW,RW | VAN | 5 | 3 | 0.5 |
| James van Riemsdyk | LW,RW | PHI | 5 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Jonathan Toews | C | CHI | 10 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Teuvo Teravainen | LW,RW | CAR | 52 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Artturi Lehkonen | LW,RW | COL | 58 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Blake Wheeler | RW | WPG | 51 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Adam Lowry | C | WPG | 15 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Morgan Frost | C,LW | PHI | 5 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Lucas Raymond | RW | DET | 45 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Jonatan Berggren | LW,RW | DET | 1 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Andrei Kuzmenko | LW,RW | VAN | 44 | 3 | 0.2 |
| Alex Killorn | LW,RW | TB | 22 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Sam Steel | C,LW | MIN | 7 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Reilly Smith | LW,RW | VGK | 55 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Joel Farabee | C,LW | PHI | 4 | 1 | 0.2 |
| David Perron | RW | DET | 54 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Nick Schmaltz | C,RW | ARI | 20 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Jaden Schwartz | LW | SEA | 4 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Adam Henrique | C,LW | ANA | 7 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Rickard Rakell | LW,RW | PIT | 59 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Alex Iafallo | LW | LA | 7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Cole Perfetti | C,LW,RW | WPG | 18 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Gabriel Vilardi | LW,RW | LA | 30 | 0 | -0.1 |
| Filip Chytil | C,RW | NYR | 9 | 1 | -0.1 |
| Calen Addison | D | MIN | 12 | 1 | -0.1 |
| Owen Tippett | LW,RW | PHI | 8 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Seth Jones | D | CHI | 51 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | C | NYI | 26 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Frank Vatrano | LW,RW | ANA | 6 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Lane Pederson | C,RW | VAN | 0 | 3 | -0.2 |
| Victor Olofsson | RW | BUF | 9 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | RW | SEA | 8 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Jason Zucker | LW | PIT | 25 | 2 | -0.2 |
| Miles Wood | LW | NJ | 3 | 0 | -0.2 |
| Frederick Gaudreau | C,LW,RW | MIN | 4 | 1 | -0.3 |
| Kirby Dach | C,RW | MTL | 15 | 2 | -0.3 |
| Sean Durzi | D | LA | 38 | 0 | -0.3 |
| Brock Boeser | RW | VAN | 44 | 3 | -0.3 |
| Travis Sanheim | D | PHI | 4 | 1 | -0.4 |
| T.J. Oshie | C,RW | WSH | 26 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Nino Niederreiter | LW | NSH | 17 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Mattias Ekholm | D | NSH | 11 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Oliver Ekman-Larsson | D | VAN | 12 | 3 | -0.4 |
| Conor Garland | LW,RW | VAN | 7 | 3 | -0.5 |
| Gustav Nyquist | LW,RW | CBJ | 3 | 1 | -0.5 |
| Ross Colton | C,LW,RW | TB | 3 | 1 | -0.5 |
| Tyler Johnson | LW,RW | CHI | 1 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Cam York | D | PHI | 3 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Ty Smith | D | PIT | 5 | 2 | -0.6 |
| Ryan Johansen | C | NSH | 15 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Stefan Noesen | LW,RW | CAR | 6 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Emil Bemstrom | LW,RW | CBJ | 0 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Dominik Kubalik | LW,RW | DET | 35 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Taylor Raddysh | LW,RW | CHI | 1 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Jeff Carter | C | PIT | 6 | 2 | -0.7 |
| Marcus Foligno | LW,RW | MIN | 14 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Jared McCann | C,LW | SEA | 22 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Ivan Barbashev | C,LW | STL | 13 | 0 | -0.8 |
| Kent Johnson | LW,RW | CBJ | 5 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Josh Anderson | RW | MTL | 4 | 2 | -0.8 |
| Anthony Beauvillier | LW,RW | NYI | 1 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Kirill Marchenko | RW | CBJ | 2 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Jake Walman | D | DET | 2 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Marcus Bjork | D | CBJ | 1 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Alexis Lafreniere | LW,RW | NYR | 15 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Arber Xhekaj | D | MTL | 25 | 2 | -0.9 |
| Nicholas Paul | C,LW | TB | 23 | 1 | -1.0 |
| Max Domi | C,LW,RW | CHI | 22 | 1 | -1.0 |
| Justin Schultz | D | SEA | 19 | 1 | -1.1 |
| John Klingberg | D | ANA | 40 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Ryan Strome | C | ANA | 7 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Nico Sturm | C,LW | SJ | 1 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Marcus Johansson | LW,RW | WSH | 3 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Derick Brassard | C,LW | OTT | 0 | 2 | -1.2 |
| Rasmus Sandin | D | TOR | 18 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Shane Pinto | C | OTT | 6 | 2 | -1.3 |
| Anton Lundell | C | FLA | 22 | 1 | -1.3 |
| Evan Bouchard | D | EDM | 58 | 1 | -1.4 |
| Oskar Sundqvist | C,RW | DET | 0 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Sheldon Dries | C,LW | VAN | 0 | 3 | -1.6 |
| Neal Pionk | D | WPG | 53 | 2 | -1.6 |
| Eetu Luostarinen | C,LW | FLA | 2 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Ivan Provorov | D | PHI | 42 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Dmitry Orlov | D | WSH | 28 | 1 | -1.7 |
| Colton Parayko | D | STL | 15 | 0 | -1.8 |
| Skater | Position | Team | Roster % | Off Days | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason McTavish | C,LW | ANA | 24 | 1 | 1.7 |
| Adam Henrique | C,LW | ANA | 7 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Frank Vatrano | LW,RW | ANA | 6 | 1 | -0.2 |
| John Klingberg | D | ANA | 40 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Ryan Strome | C | ANA | 7 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Lawson Crouse | LW,RW | ARI | 14 | 2 | 0.7 |
| Nick Ritchie | LW | ARI | 4 | 2 | 0.5 |
| Nick Schmaltz | C,RW | ARI | 20 | 2 | 0.1 |
| Taylor Hall | LW | BOS | 57 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Dylan Cozens | C | BUF | 56 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Casey Mittelstadt | C | BUF | 3 | 1 | 1.0 |
| Victor Olofsson | RW | BUF | 9 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Seth Jarvis | LW,RW | CAR | 27 | 1 | 1.6 |
| Brett Pesce | D | CAR | 7 | 1 | 0.7 |
| Teuvo Teravainen | LW,RW | CAR | 52 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Stefan Noesen | LW,RW | CAR | 6 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Jack Roslovic | C | CBJ | 4 | 1 | 1.5 |
| Gustav Nyquist | LW,RW | CBJ | 3 | 1 | -0.5 |
| Emil Bemstrom | LW,RW | CBJ | 0 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Kent Johnson | LW,RW | CBJ | 5 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Kirill Marchenko | RW | CBJ | 2 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Marcus Bjork | D | CBJ | 1 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Jonathan Toews | C | CHI | 10 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Seth Jones | D | CHI | 51 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Tyler Johnson | LW,RW | CHI | 1 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Taylor Raddysh | LW,RW | CHI | 1 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Max Domi | C,LW,RW | CHI | 22 | 1 | -1.0 |
| Evan Rodrigues | C,LW,RW | COL | 18 | 2 | 1.8 |
| J.T. Compher | C,RW | COL | 19 | 2 | 1.6 |
| Artturi Lehkonen | LW,RW | COL | 58 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Mason Marchment | LW,RW | DAL | 22 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Lucas Raymond | RW | DET | 45 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Jonatan Berggren | LW,RW | DET | 1 | 1 | 0.3 |
| David Perron | RW | DET | 54 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Dominik Kubalik | LW,RW | DET | 35 | 1 | -0.7 |
| Jake Walman | D | DET | 2 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Oskar Sundqvist | C,RW | DET | 0 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Evan Bouchard | D | EDM | 58 | 1 | -1.4 |
| Carter Verhaeghe | LW | FLA | 58 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Anton Lundell | C | FLA | 22 | 1 | -1.3 |
| Eetu Luostarinen | C,LW | FLA | 2 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Viktor Arvidsson | LW,RW | LA | 31 | 0 | 3.9 |
| Phillip Danault | C | LA | 35 | 0 | 0.6 |
| Alex Iafallo | LW | LA | 7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Gabriel Vilardi | LW,RW | LA | 30 | 0 | -0.1 |
| Sean Durzi | D | LA | 38 | 0 | -0.3 |
| Ryan Hartman | C,RW | MIN | 33 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Sam Steel | C,LW | MIN | 7 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Calen Addison | D | MIN | 12 | 1 | -0.1 |
| Frederick Gaudreau | C,LW,RW | MIN | 4 | 1 | -0.3 |
| Marcus Foligno | LW,RW | MIN | 14 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Kirby Dach | C,RW | MTL | 15 | 2 | -0.3 |
| Josh Anderson | RW | MTL | 4 | 2 | -0.8 |
| Arber Xhekaj | D | MTL | 25 | 2 | -0.9 |
| Tomas Tatar | LW,RW | NJ | 20 | 0 | 0.7 |
| Miles Wood | LW | NJ | 3 | 0 | -0.2 |
| Juuso Parssinen | C | NSH | 3 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Mikael Granlund | C,RW | NSH | 10 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Nino Niederreiter | LW | NSH | 17 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Mattias Ekholm | D | NSH | 11 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Ryan Johansen | C | NSH | 15 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | C | NYI | 26 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Anthony Beauvillier | LW,RW | NYI | 1 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Filip Chytil | C,RW | NYR | 9 | 1 | -0.1 |
| Alexis Lafreniere | LW,RW | NYR | 15 | 1 | -0.9 |
| Derick Brassard | C,LW | OTT | 0 | 2 | -1.2 |
| Shane Pinto | C | OTT | 6 | 2 | -1.3 |
| Scott Laughton | C,LW | PHI | 19 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Kevin Hayes | C,LW | PHI | 27 | 1 | 1.3 |
| James van Riemsdyk | LW,RW | PHI | 5 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Morgan Frost | C,LW | PHI | 5 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Joel Farabee | C,LW | PHI | 4 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Owen Tippett | LW,RW | PHI | 8 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Travis Sanheim | D | PHI | 4 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Cam York | D | PHI | 3 | 1 | -0.6 |
| Ivan Provorov | D | PHI | 42 | 1 | -1.6 |
| Bryan Rust | RW | PIT | 57 | 2 | 0.8 |
| Kasperi Kapanen | RW | PIT | 2 | 2 | 0.8 |
| Rickard Rakell | LW,RW | PIT | 59 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Jason Zucker | LW | PIT | 25 | 2 | -0.2 |
| Ty Smith | D | PIT | 5 | 2 | -0.6 |
| Jeff Carter | C | PIT | 6 | 2 | -0.7 |
| Jordan Eberle | RW | SEA | 24 | 1 | 3.1 |
| Daniel Sprong | LW,RW | SEA | 8 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Eeli Tolvanen | LW,RW | SEA | 10 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Matty Beniers | C | SEA | 53 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Andre Burakovsky | LW,RW | SEA | 45 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Jaden Schwartz | LW | SEA | 4 | 1 | 0.1 |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | RW | SEA | 8 | 1 | -0.2 |
| Jared McCann | C,LW | SEA | 22 | 1 | -0.8 |
| Justin Schultz | D | SEA | 19 | 1 | -1.1 |
| Alexander Barabanov | LW,RW | SJ | 7 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Logan Couture | C | SJ | 50 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Nico Sturm | C,LW | SJ | 1 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Robert Thomas | C | STL | 58 | 0 | 1.1 |
| Brandon Saad | LW | STL | 6 | 0 | 1.0 |
| Ivan Barbashev | C,LW | STL | 13 | 0 | -0.8 |
| Colton Parayko | D | STL | 15 | 0 | -1.8 |
| Brandon Hagel | LW,RW | TB | 59 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Alex Killorn | LW,RW | TB | 22 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Ross Colton | C,LW,RW | TB | 3 | 1 | -0.5 |
| Nicholas Paul | C,LW | TB | 23 | 1 | -1.0 |
| Calle Jarnkrok | C,LW,RW | TOR | 16 | 1 | 2.0 |
| Conor Timmins | D | TOR | 2 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Rasmus Sandin | D | TOR | 18 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Ilya Mikheyev | LW,RW | VAN | 5 | 3 | 0.5 |
| Andrei Kuzmenko | LW,RW | VAN | 44 | 3 | 0.2 |
| Lane Pederson | C,RW | VAN | 0 | 3 | -0.2 |
| Brock Boeser | RW | VAN | 44 | 3 | -0.3 |
| Oliver Ekman-Larsson | D | VAN | 12 | 3 | -0.4 |
| Conor Garland | LW,RW | VAN | 7 | 3 | -0.5 |
| Sheldon Dries | C,LW | VAN | 0 | 3 | -1.6 |
| Reilly Smith | LW,RW | VGK | 55 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Blake Wheeler | RW | WPG | 51 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Adam Lowry | C | WPG | 15 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Cole Perfetti | C,LW,RW | WPG | 18 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Neal Pionk | D | WPG | 53 | 2 | -1.6 |
| Dylan Strome | C,RW | WSH | 24 | 1 | 0.8 |
| T.J. Oshie | C,RW | WSH | 26 | 1 | -0.4 |
| Marcus Johansson | LW,RW | WSH | 3 | 1 | -1.2 |
| Dmitry Orlov | D | WSH | 28 | 1 | -1.7 |
Is It A Good Idea To Use A Bot To Find Streamers?
I can see a few benefits to using a bot to hunt for streamers: (1) it shrinks the pool of potential streamers, leaving us with the easier task of picking our streamers from a small number of candidates; (2) it eliminates personal bias - the bot looks at the data, not the vibes; and (3) it catches everything - the bot will not miss a skater getting extra time-on-ice, or a skater generating increased scoring chances.
There’s an important caveat to that last point though, and it’s the bot’s biggest weakness: the bot is not smart when it comes to changes that are expected to occur in the future. The bot simply pulls historical data from Natural Stat Trick and uses it to project future skater performance. The bot knows nothing else. It’s oblivious to tweets about new line combinations and news about roster changes. Does that mean the bot’s suggestions are worthless? Of course not. Just be aware of the issue when reviewing the bot’s suggestions.
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Cheers!
Mark (18 Skaters)