NHL FANTASY HOCKEY RANKINGS: 2021 PROJECTIONS FROM PROVEN COMPUTER MODEL
Mike McClure’s projection model has revealed its NHL Fantasy hockey rankings 2021
Before making any 2021 Fantasy hockey picks, you NEED to see the rankings from SportsLine’s NHL Fantasy hockey rankings 2021.
The model, developed by pro DFS player and SportsLine predictive data engineer Mike McClure, simulates the entire NHL season 10,000 times to produce the most exact and accurate Fantasy hockey rankings possible.
McClure has used this model to help him win almost $2 million in daily Fantasy sports, and it also powers his season-long NHL rankings. The projections can help you create a draft strategy that ensures you have the depth necessary to survive what could be another challenging season.
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You the model is extremely high on Canucks center Elias Pettersson. He is being undervalued according to the latest Fantasy hockey ADP. He’s been the 32nd player off the board on average and McClure’s model has him ranked No. 11 overall.
The model has also made a surprising call on where Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl ranks after winning the Ross Trophy, Lindsay Award and Hart Trophy last season, and it features a stunner in the top 10 that you need to see! You ABSOLUTELY need to see its Fantasy hockey rankings before drafting.
Here are the top sleepers, breakouts and busts based on McClure’s rankings vs. ADP (updated 12/31):
Sleepers:
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Thatcher Demko (233 ADP, 147 rank)
Alex Tuch (283 ADP, 150 rank)
Jake DeBrusk (206 ADP, 171 rank)
Andrei Svechnikov (42 ADP, 7 rank)
Elias Pettersson (32 ADP, 11 rank)
Breakouts:
Charlie McAvoy (104 ADP, 100 rank)
Elvis Merzlikins (159 ADP, 112 rank)
Mikhail Sergachev (126 ADP, 126 rank)
Nick Suzuki (217 ADP, 133 rank)
Andre Burakovsky (Unranked ADP, 77 rank)
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Busts:
Tristan Jarry (67 ADP, 197 rank)
Jake Guentzel (18 ADP, 34 rank)
Jonathan Huberdeau (19 ADP, 38 rank)
Steven Stamkos (7 ADP, 28 rank)
Anton Khudobin (36 ADP, 79 rank)
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Full Rankings:
| 1 | Nathan MacKinnon | C |
| 2 | Connor McDavid | C |
| 3 | Auston Matthews | C |
| 4 | Alex Ovechkin | LW |
| 5 | Leon Draisaitl | C/LW |
| 6 | Jack Eichel | C |
| 7 | Andrei Svechnikov | LW/RW |
| 8 | Artemi Panarin | LW |
| 9 | Mika Zibanejad | C |
| 10 | Mikko Rantanen | RW |
| 11 | Elias Pettersson | C |
| 12 | John Carlson | D |
| 13 | Sidney Crosby | C |
| 14 | Sebastian Aho | C |
| 15 | Matthew Tkachuk | LW/RW |
| 16 | Mitchell Marner | RW |
| 17 | Andrei Vasilevskiy | G |
| 18 | Victor Hedman | D |
| 19 | Patrick Kane | RW |
| 20 | Patrik Laine | LW/RW |
| 21 | David Pastrnak | RW |
| 22 | Brad Marchand | LW |
| 23 | Roman Josi | D |
| 24 | Brayden Point | C |
| 25 | JT Miller | T |
| 26 | Cale Makar | D |
| 27 | Dougie Hamilton | D |
| 28 | Steven Stamkos | LW/RW |
| 29 | Evgeni Malkin | C |
| 30 | Max Pacioretty | LW |
| 31 | Gabriel Landeskog | C/LW |
| 32 | Blake Wheeler | C/RW |
| 33 | Robin Lehner | G |
| 34 | Jake Guentzel | LW/RW |
| 35 | Taylor Hall | LW |
| 36 | Alex Pietrangelo | D |
| 37 | Brady Tkachuk | LW |
| 38 | Jonathan Huberdeau | LW |
| 39 | John Tavares | C |
| 40 | Mark Stone | RW |
| 41 | Brent Burns | D |
| 42 | Tuukka Rask | G |
| 43 | Quinn Hughes | D |
| 44 | Mark Scheifele | C |
| 45 | Carter Hart | G |
| 46 | Aleksander Barkov | C |
| 47 | Kyle Connor | LW |
| 48 | Patrice Bergeron | C |
| 49 | Morgan Rielly | D |
| 50 | Connor Hellebuyck | G |
| 51 | Philipp Grubauer | G |
| 52 | Igor Shesterkin | G |
| 53 | Brayden Schenn | C/RW |
| 54 | Carey Price | G |
| 55 | Tom Wilson | RW |
| 56 | Frederik Andersen | G |
| 57 | Jordan Binnington | G |
| 58 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | C/LW |
| 59 | Seth Jones | D |
| 60 | Ryan O’Reilly | C |
| 61 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | C |
| 62 | Johnny Gaudreau | LW/RW |
| 63 | Nicklas Backstrom | C |
| 64 | Kris Letang | D |
| 65 | Elias Lindholm | C/RW |
| 66 | Erik Karlsson | D |
| 67 | Filip Forsberg | LW |
| 68 | Teuvo Teravainen | LW/RW |
| 69 | Miro Heiskanen | D |
| 70 | Ilya Samsonov | G |
| 71 | Sean Couturier | C |
| 72 | Shea Theodore | D |
| 73 | Torey Krug | D |
| 74 | Shea Weber | D |
| 75 | Mathew Barzal | C |
| 76 | Bo Horvat | C |
| 77 | Andre Burakovsky | LW/RW |
| 78 | TJ Oshie | J |
| 79 | Anton Khudobin | G |
| 80 | Rasmus Dahlin | D |
| 81 | William Nylander | LW/RW |
| 82 | Ivan Provorov | D |
| 83 | Kevin Fiala | LW/RW |
| 84 | Claude Giroux | C/LW |
| 85 | Brendan Gallagher | RW |
| 86 | Brock Boeser | RW |
| 87 | Jacob Markstrom | G |
| 88 | Braden Holtby | G |
| 89 | Anze Kopitar | C |
| 90 | John Klingberg | D |
| 91 | Chris Kreider | LW |
| 92 | Evander Kane | LW |
| 93 | Nazem Kadri | C |
| 94 | Zach Werenski | D |
| 95 | Pierre-Luc Dubois | C |
| 96 | Alexander Radulov | LW/RW |
| 97 | Semyon Varlamov | G |
| 98 | Bryan Rust | LW/RW |
| 99 | Alexis Lafreniere | LW |
| 100 | Charlie McAvoy | D |
| 101 | Tyson Barrie | D |
| 102 | David Perron | LW/RW |
| 103 | Jamie Benn | C/LW |
| 104 | Darcy Kuemper | G |
| 105 | Jonathan Marchessault | C/LW |
| 106 | Pavel Francouz | G |
| 107 | Timo Meier | LW/RW |
| 108 | Tony DeAngelo | D |
| 109 | Travis Konecny | RW |
| 110 | Thomas Chabot | D |
| 111 | Marc-Andre Fleury | G |
| 112 | Elvis Merzlikins | G |
| 113 | Jeff Petry | D |
| 114 | Kailer Yamamoto | RW |
| 115 | Mark Giordano | D |
| 116 | Dylan Larkin | C |
| 117 | Sean Monahan | C |
| 118 | Alex DeBrincat | LW/RW |
| 119 | Ondrej Palat | LW |
| 120 | Ilya Sorokin | G |
| 121 | Jaden Schwartz | LW |
| 122 | Nikolaj Ehlers | LW/RW |
| 123 | Drew Doughty | D |
| 124 | Tomas Hertl | C/LW |
| 125 | Mike Hoffman | LW/RW |
| 126 | Mikhail Sergachev | D |
| 127 | Neal Pionk | D |
| 128 | Jakub Vrana | LW |
| 129 | Joonas Korpisalo | G |
| 130 | Sergei Bobrovsky | G |
| 131 | Ryan Ellis | D |
| 132 | Jaroslav Halak | G |
| 133 | Nick Suzuki | C/RW |
| 134 | Sam Reinhart | C/RW |
| 135 | Victor Olofsson | LW/RW |
| 136 | Keith Yandle | D |
| 137 | Patric Hornqvist | RW |
| 138 | Jacob Trouba | D |
| 139 | Kirill Kaprizov | LW |
| 140 | Ryan Pulock | D |
| 141 | Petr Mrazek | G |
| 142 | Cam Atkinson | RW |
| 143 | Reilly Smith | RW |
| 144 | Matt Dumba | D |
| 145 | Logan Couture | C |
| 146 | Kyle Palmieri | RW |
| 147 | Thatcher Demko | G |
| 148 | Rasmus Ristolainen | D |
| 149 | Dominik Kubalik | LW/RW |
| 150 | Alex Tuch | LW/RW |
| 151 | Adam Fox | D |
| 152 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | LW/RW |
| 153 | Tomas Tatar | LW/RW |
| 154 | Juuse Saros | G |
| 155 | Ryan Strome | C/RW |
| 156 | Zach Parise | LW |
| 157 | Ryan Suter | D |
| 158 | Jakub Voracek | RW |
| 159 | Anthony Mantha | LW/RW |
| 160 | Brandon Saad | LW/RW |
| 161 | Evgenii Dadonov | LW/RW |
| 162 | Jonathan Toews | C |
| 163 | Cam Talbot | G |
| 164 | Tyler Toffoli | LW/RW |
| 165 | Aaron Ekblad | D |
| 166 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | D |
| 167 | Jaccob Slavin | D |
| 168 | Darnell Nurse | D |
| 169 | Max Domi | C/LW |
| 170 | Colton Parayko | D |
| 171 | Jake DeBrusk | LW/RW |
| 172 | Ryan Getzlaf | C |
| 173 | William Karlsson | C |
| 174 | Nate Schmidt | D |
| 175 | Pavel Buchnevich | RW |
| 176 | Josh Anderson | RW |
| 177 | Brock Nelson | C |
| 178 | Clayton Keller | LW/RW |
| 179 | Matt Murray | G |
| 180 | David Krejci | C |
| 181 | Jake Muzzin | D |
| 182 | Jean-Gabriel Pageau | C |
| 183 | Mackenzie Blackwood | G |
| 184 | Jared Spurgeon | D |
| 185 | Nico Hischier | C |
| 186 | Matt Duchene | C/RW |
| 187 | Rickard Rakell | LW/RW |
| 188 | Linus Ullmark | G |
| 189 | Jack Hughes | C/LW |
| 190 | Filip Hronek | D |
| 191 | Quinton Byfield | C |
| 192 | Duncan Keith | D |
| 193 | James Reimer | G |
| 194 | Dustin Brown | RW |
| 195 | Anthony Cirelli | C |
| 196 | Ryan Graves | D |
| 197 | Tristan Jarry | G |
| 198 | Denis Gurianov | LW/RW |
| 199 | Jason Zucker | LW/RW |
| 200 | Nikita Gusev | LW/RW |