The Best Undrafted VHFL Players

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There are 17 VHFL groups this season; with six teams of six players in each group, that's a total of 612 selections made. Obviously there are going to be some players who are selected in every group. This season, we had 14 such players. There were a total of 77 different players selected for at least one team. I'm here to tell you about the best players who were not selected even once.

 

If I were to make a fantasy team out of the best 0.00% owned players, it would be the following:

 

F	Matty Fire	64.8
F	Cobalt Burns	60.8
F	John Jameson	60
D	Deron Nesbitt	70.2
D	Kronchy Kardashian	63.8
G	Augustus Kennedy	79.5
	Total	399.1

 

Just as a point of comparison, there are two forwards and two defensemen who are owned in every league that have scored fewer fantasy points than all of those names above. Augustus Kennedy is actually the second-highest scoring goalie (the highest scoring goalie was actually only selected twice, but that's more than zero so I don't care about that right now). Every single VHFL roster would be improved by replacing at least one of their players with one of the above, and only two of the 36 teams have three forwards and two defensemen who are better than all of the above.

 

 

So just how good would the ideal undrafted VHFL team be in relation to actual VHFL teams? Well, the average team score in the VHFL is 389.9. Only three groups have a higher average score than 399.1 (shoutout to groups 16, 15, and 9). This team of undrafted players would have an average group placement of 3.3, including a current second place position in four different groups. It would not be in last place in any of these groups. The closest it comes to leading any group would be group 13, in which the currently leader has 401.9 points.

 

Let's take this just a step further, because I'm curious. If we were to make a second team of undrafted players, it would look like this:

 

F	Daniel Clarke	56.2
F	Nic McMuffin	52.7
F	Scotty Sundin	51.3
D	Milan Dvorak	61.5
D	Sting Chameleon	59.3
G	Ilya Bryzgalov	44.8
	Total	325.8

 

Still better than three actual VHFL teams.

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