Only Count Your Top Scoring Players

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We provide the ability to have only your top point getting players contribute to the team scoring.

For example, many pools have you draft 10 players but only the top 8 scorers count. Or you draft 10 forwards, 5 defencement and 2 goalies, but only the top 6 forwards, top 3 defencemen and the best goalie count toward your team's total.

This type of pool can be tracked with THE Hockey Pool. On the Administration page, go to "Top Point Getters Pools". There you will find an array of 10 fields allowing you to specify the number of Any Players, Skaters, Forwards, Centers, Left Wingers, Right Wingers, Defencemen, Goalies, Penalty and/or Boneheads which count towards your team total points.

An Any Player is a player of any position, including a goalie.
A Skater is any player who is not a goalie. (ie. a Forward, Defence, Center, Left, Right, Bonehead, Penalty)
A Forward is any Forward, Center, Left or Right Winger.
We also provide Penalty and Bonehead position types for additional scoring varieties, and 3 Custom Player Types ( A B and C) for further options, click here for more info on scoring.

The total number of players to count must be less than the number of players you drafted or it will be ignored. Once you have filled in the fields according to your pool's rules, press "Update", then go to your team's Daily Stats Page and see how your top scorers are doing.

Once you select this option and have updated your pool, the players who are involved in the points scoring (ie. in your top number of players) are indicated by having their "Round Drafted" number in Bold at the start of the line in the Team By Team chart.

Points Last Night and Top Scorers Pools

Every year questions arise on several Top Scoring Pools where they think the PLN is cheating them out of points. We would like to assure everyone that the PLN column is correct, however, it can be unintuitive as to why that is.

Lets say for your pool today, Team Darryl shows that his scoring players scored 5 points last night, but his Top Scorers PLN is only 4. How can that be?

Well here's the deal:

Yesterday Darryl had 45 points total (minus one player, Frolov, who had 1 point) = 44 total points
Today, Darryl has 50 points total (minus one player, Carter, who has 2 points) = 48 total points

net gain of only 4 points since yesterday, even though his scoring players scored 5 points. He lost the extra point because Frolov scored two points last night to become a scoring player, bumping Carter off the top scoring team.

For Top N pools which allow trades and merge player points:
We added the Bonus Point feature to allow pools like yours to have traded players count as a single player for purposes of the Top Scorers. You have the new players traded to the teams now, yes? Good. So, record the points as they stand for the dropped players, then from Initialize & Edit Teams, add the points from the dropped players to the appropriate player's bonus points field, then change the dropped players to some player type that does not score points - that way you'll have a record of when that dropped player was on the team, but he'll not have any points. Your newly aquired players will have bonus points for the points the dropped player had and your Top N pool continues to work.
Great you say, but how do I set it up for our pool? Well, in general, start with specific requirements. If you MUST have a Goalie or Defence on your team, enter those number first, then fill in the less specific numbers.

Some Examples:

Situation 1 Our pool drafts 15 players both Forwards and Defencemen, and we count the top 10, but two of the top 10 MUST be Defencemen, we can count more than two Defencemen, but there must be at least 2 counted (ie. the top scorers could be 7 F and 3 D).
Setup: To set up this scoring, enter 2 under Defence and 8 under Any Skater. Since there must be 2 Defence, it will fill those slots first, then look for the top 8 scorers regardless of position.

Situation 2 Our pool drafts 12 players, and counts the top 8, two must be Defence, one a Goalie and the other 5 Forwards.
Setup: This is easy, enter 2 for Defence, 1 for Goalie and 5 for Forwards.

NOTE: For pools where all of your player's points count, leave all of these fields set to 0. The default value of 0 in all of these fields means that all of your players count towards your total points.

A Top Point Getters Pool only counts points from a certain number of the best scoring players. For example, you might draft 13 players, but only the top 10 scorers will count toward your total points. In this case you would enter 10 in the Skaters field and leave all other fields set to 0.

Or, you may draft 10 players and 2 goalies and you count the top 9 scorers, and the best goalie. In this case, enter 9 in the Skaters field, and 1 in the Goalies field.

Some more complex pools count the top point getters by position, such as, the top 5 forwards, top 3 defencemen and top 1 goalie. As you might expect, enter 5 in the Forwards field, 3 in the Defencemen field and 1 in the Goalie field and leave the remaining fields set to 0.

Or your pool may draft 10 players and 2 goalies and keep the top 9 point getters regardless of position. In this case you would enter 9 in the Any Players field.

Of course, if your pool counts ALL of the players you drafted towards your teams total points, then leave all of these fields set to 0.

If your pool drafts 12 players (10 forwards and 2 goalies) and only the best 10 point getters, regardless of position played, count towards the total points, then enter 10 in the Any Player field.

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