YOO What up 239… it’s another day.. It's another post for ya’ll to peruse and talk shit about to each other.

This time around we are dropping the start of season 239 Top 5 Player Position Rankings as voted on by an anonymous council of people who dont suck at the game and know the pool of players well.

PLUS 2 fully completed Player Rankings from my special guests.. A couple of fellas with MULTIPLE chips here in 239 who are COMPLETELY unbiased, honest and truthful in their rankings they provided for us here today

Speaking of the special guests, let's have a chat with our first one now!





Andy: Hey Wizzy! Thanks for joining us today for your 239 Player Rankings, how's it goin’ pal?
Wiz: Im good man, got my CR up to 1800 after crushing those 3s lords with you last night homie!
Andy: Sweet man! Im Jelly(x35)! Are you ready to get right into your rankings?
Wiz: Yup! I ate my cereal with warm milk for breakfast, finished a few chapters of my encyclopedia and reviewed 15 seasons of 239 advanced analytics this morning in preparation for today.. Here you go 239 friends!


CENTER: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)
RW: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)
LW: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)
RD: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)
LD: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)
G: #1) Wizzywar (99ovr) #2) Wizzywar (99ovr) #3) Wizzywar (99ovr)

Wiz: So as you can see Andy, I’m the best payer... At all the positions
Andy: What?! You really think youre better at RW than Dmart?
Wiz: Yes, I play all the good teams, he is a stat padder.
Andy: Ok that's fair, Dan was mean to shitters last season.. But what about Center?!
Wiz: I am the best Center on any team in any league this season ... I just feel like I’ll be the Selke, Hart and Rocket winner cause I’m smart and I can play with anyone and the play just flows through me..

Beer can: **CRACK!




Dub: Shut up Wizzy before I shoot you with my extendo mag Grau
Wiz: I’m also the best coach in the league but I didn't see where to vote for myself on that..
Dub: (drunkenly rages on Wizzy for center supremacy, throws a C4 at him and shoots him with his Grau)
Wiz: (tries poke checking and LTing dubs bullets, it fails due to Wizzys always ‘heavy’ 20 ping)
Andy: OK mom and dad you're outta here like Nicky Drug and Marty night 1 in an eliminator pool


Andy: Ok guys that was a shit show, lets hop straight into Special Guest 2 for his unbiased Player Rankings




Brick: Yo wtf you want bum?
Andy: Hello to you too, damn
Brick: Here’s that fuckin list you wanted, dont ask me for shit again bro


CENTER: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

RW: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

LW: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

RD: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

LD: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

G: #1) Brick (99ovr) #2) Nobody (0ovr) #3) You're all bums (0ovr)

Andy: Not you too mother fucker..



ALRIGHT that's enough of those scrubs opinions… Let's get to the REAL 239 PLAYER POSITION RANKINGS (Start of season edition).

I asked a group of wise 239ers that know the pool to give their Top 5 Skaters at every position with an overall included and the same for Top Gs. I also asked for their most underrated player in 239. PT and FT are included, captains are as well… the following are the consensus results of THE COUNCIL (The overall is the average from the council votes.)

TOP 5 Cs:
Rome (91) Wizzywar (89) Power Kill (89) SeeDub21 (88) MasterAmerica/Pale tied (87)

TOP 5 RWs:
Dmart (93) SauceWalka (91) Anthrax (87) Thamps (86) Schwatz (86)

TOP 5 LWs:
HooFoo (91) SBDR (90) Mashotpa (88) SM22 (88) Eso (86)

TOP 5 LDs:
Neomop (91), Dali (91) , BLK7 (89), BrickCity (88), HallOfFame (87)

TOP 5 RDs:
SeeDew(90), Drug (90), Costa (89), xDALY (88), Ron Don (87),

TOP 5 Gs:
Cripps (94)
Yin75 (89)
No Regretzkys (88)
Bills39/Butcher tied (87)
Thomahawk/Currdogg tied (86)

Top Underrated Guys:

DanglezHD (F) YounhKelch (F) Hergy (F) Sober (F) Mr Tough (F) Thamps (F)

Thanks for reading to the end. That is your top 5 players at each spot in 239 Season 16 according to THE COUNCIL.

OK by popular demand I have decided to release my big board that I was using on Draft Night live on the draft show. It will follow the format of;

TIER#
Tag - Ranking - Position I would use them - Bod range

The logic to my big board was:
TIER 1: Unless you surround them by a dumpster fire these players will carry you to the payoffs on their back... the best payer on your team.
TIER 2: Really damn good. Could be the best player on a decent team, paired with a T1 the other teams got fuckin problems
TIER 3: Weaker 2Fs or STUD 3Fs and Weaker 1Ds/TOP 2Ds. If expected to carry team you're fucked, but still really solid pieces on contending teams.
TIER 4: Definite 3Fs and 2Ds that if not asked to do more will be real nice complementary additions to your top tier guys
TIER 5: I'm not leaving the value menus for you ideally, but I'm also not letting you hit waivers if I have roster space cause you still bring an asset or two to the squad that is of good value.

NOT ALL PLAYERS ARE ON HERE. If i didnt know you whatsoever I didnt randomly guess your spot so check back next year or maybe mid season.
The Ranking is based on MY PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, 239 SUCCESS', YOUR POSITION AVAILS AND HOW I FELT CAPTAINS FELT ABOUT YOUR SKILLS/ATTITUDE/AVAILABILITY... ALL MIXED TOGETHER.
The Bod Range is based on MY VALUE OR PREDICTION OF BODs SPENT ON YOU IN THIS SEASONS AUCTION AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS FAIR VALUE. There is a range because my value on you would change a bit depending on who else I had already acquired/ didnt snag

There are no captains on the big board. There are no Goalies. I will rank the Captains and Gs at THE END just so yall know my opinions. These are my opinions, I dont care if you disagree... go prove me wrong and call me dumb.. im all for it.

( ** = PART TIME, double bods and subtract about 5 for my ft value of them. ex PT15 x 2 = 30-5 =25 bod value at FT)

TIER 1
Brick - F/D - 1 - 38-44
DrugMonkey - D - 2 - 38-43
Neomop - LD - 3 - 34-44
xDALY - C/D - 4 - 34-42
PowerKill - C - 5 - 35-45
SeeDew - D - 6 - 32-40
Cycle x2x - F/D - 7 - 38-44
** HooFoo - W - 8 - 17-23

TIER 2
Surpriseme22 - W - 9 - 30-35
Fl0de - F - 10 - 30-35
** SBDR - LW - 11 - 17-20
** Croydon - C - 12 - 17-22
SauceWalka - F - 13 - 17-20
HallofFame - 14 - D - 28-32
Kaberle - 15 - D - 28-32
** Suneedee - 16 - LW/C - 15-18
** Hergy - 17 - F - 15-18
Bills39 - 18 - F - 25-35
Mashotpa - 19 - F - 25-30 (heard good things but hadnt seen to move higher up at the time)

TIER 3
Toxzack - 20 - W/D - 20-26
Ian the Berean - 21 - C - 22-30
Gala - 22 - C/W - 15-20
Phinny - 23 - C - 20-28
Kdog - 24 - D - 20-26
YoungBuffalo88 - 25 - C/RD - 18-25
Anthrax - 26 - F - 15-25
Zombie - 27 - RW/C - 17-25
Rocco - 28 - RW/C - 17-25
Barrett50Cal - 29 - RD/C - 5-15 (*25 if makes all G1s)
DanglezHD - 30 - W - 15-20 (*admittedly i confuse the 2 danglezs tags so i think its this one?? sry guys lol)
Nik Da GOAT - 31 - LW/C - 90-94 (ok fine.. 20-25)
SoberEnuff - 32 - F - 17-25
Ozzy - 33 - RW - 17-24
**Dvetts - 34 - D - 10-17
Nabuch - 35 - W - 15-20

TIER 4 (Rankings end here cause I dont fuckin know at this point ladies n gents)
Figo - W - 7-15
Sniper - F/D - 7-15
Yambag - W - 10-15
NewfieBruins - D - 10-15
RAWB - D - 8-14
Knife in yo guts - D - 10-15
Eso - F/D - 7-15

TIER 5
Kelch - LD/LW - 5-10 (prove me wrong you hoe)
Thomahawk - F - 5-10
EWTU - D - 5-10 (dont know enough about to move up)
Gyneman - D - 1-7
Dunn - D - 1-7 (goes much higher with D willing)
Magilla - D - 1-7
MrTough - W - 1-5 (* would be t4 if list made today after seeing him more last few nights)
DuffMcgriff - D - 1-5
Frangu - D - 1-7
Deathmaul - D - 1-3
BobbyBanner - D - 5-10
MarineMike - W - 1-3
Feenix - W - 1-3
Ace Soul - W/D - 1-3

***** 3 PLAYERS I DIDNT HAVE ON DRAFT BOARD BUT HAVE SEEN SINCE;
MasterAmerica - C - 28-36 - Near top of Tier 2
Panarantino - W - 16-24 - High Tier 3
TheLime - D - 8-14 - Low T3 or High Tier 4

TO: Nickypatts, 37inarow, the other Danglez whichever one you are, mox, thugtct, bcrenton, thrilhouse, toth7, pancake, fwamingD and king rome I'm sorry but I have no fuckin clue how good or bad ya'll are but I will be paying attention this season fellas.

MORE WORDS...

As promised my Captain and Goalie Rankings

Goalies:
(Tag - Bod Range)
Cripps - Captain
Yin75 - 20-25
No Regretzkys - 20-25
Bills39 - 20-25
Shotgun - Captain
Butchersson - 15-20
Schielf - 15-20
Holly - 15-20
Currdog - 12-18
SirPuff420 - 12-18
Thomahawk - 10-15
Prophets - 10-15

***Goalie is stacked again this season.. none of these dudes are incompetent in net. LOVE this in a league, makes for great parity.

Mr Andy's Captain Player Card OVR Rating's:

Dmart - RW - 97 OVR
Marty - C - 86 OVR
SeeDub21 - C - 95 OVR
Wizzywar - C - 92 OVR
Shotgun - G - 84 OVR
Thamps - F - 80 OVR
Swag - C - 81 OVR
JoeSto - W - 74 OVR
Agent - W - 78 OVR
Cripps - G - 94 OVR
Swizzy - W - 83 OVR
BLK7 - D - 93 OVR
Ron Don - D - 91 OVR
Dali - D - 93 OVR
Pale - C - 89 OVR
Oddguy - RD - 85 OVR

Thus concludes my BIG BOARD. If you wanna talk shit in a fun way though have atter. If you're emo about your rank go tell someone who cares. I did this cause I care about ya'll but I could care less if you're upset at my efforts lol. These were simply my opinions the day of the draft while drinking beer and smoking pot on my deck, I see some of my own grades that I already know are too low or high... so yeah I get it lol. Hope you enjoyed regardless.

#1. Space Force

Power Kill - BarrettFITTYcal - Anthrax
Dalilaama/Toth7 - SeeDew77
SirPuffinton

Dalilaama did a great job with his draft after securing SeeDew first. I don't think he planned on playing defense this season but probably just fell into his lap once he got the forwards he did. BarrettFITTYcal was gotten at a steal of a price of 6 BoD's almost certainly because of the uncertainty of whether he will make a decent amount of game 1s or not. Power Kill went for a relatively modest sum as well as he and Anthrax both went for 21 each. There is obvious chemistry there, however, Power Kill is going to have to learn to play LW on this line. Anthrax being RW only means nobody is going to take that spot. Captains have started to realize I think that it is extremely difficult to win series when Barrett misses which is why he went for so few I think. Your team doesn't get to warm up with its normal line, and has to adjust to a completely different playstyle mid-series as well as makeup for the gap in talent between who you play at Center, one of if not THE most important positions on the ice, for game 1 vs games 2 and 3. It's hard. But there's a lot of talent on this squad. I assume when Barrett misses, that Dali moves to LW, PK moves to C and Toth comes in at LD. All of that said I think this is one of the most talented 5 skaters period. My question lies with SirPuffinton420 in net. He's had an awfully hard time his last couple seasons in 239. There are no excuses for why he can't perform on this team as he will have an elite defense in front of him. He doesn't need to be the best, but he needs to be better than he has the last 2 seasons.

#2. That's No Moon

x Sober Enuff x - P4LE PWNR - Surpriseme22
Kdog mk2 - Gyneman
Curdogg68

Ace Soul

I'm putting the pressure on the boys early by ranking them #2. But I really do believe I built a pretty great team through the draft. I was 'surprised' that I was able to get Surpriseme at 30 BoD's with no contention at all. Dude puts up 50 goals and 90 points in his sleep, I'm excited to play with him this season. I brought back Kdog from Corona'd for round 2, he's a stud defensemen and I'm happy to have him back again, guy is Norris caliber. Curdogg is a stud, he's the most expensive goalie in the draft because everyone knows he's a stud. Gyneman rounds out the defensive unit and I've seen nothing but good things from this guy. Sober coming off a championship season where he was an absolute maniac for dan's team, 98 points and 55 Goals went to me for 12 BoD's. Here's what the Hit Leaders all time in 239 look like:
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You all thought last season was bad when I was rocking my big build? Just wait for this one. Ace Soul rounds out the team, and is a solid backup in case duty calls for Dr. Gyneman.

#3. The Care Bears

FwamingDwagon/CroydonKnight - KingRome - Ozzy
RAWB - That 1 Odd Guy
No Regretzkys

Flexible Pancake

Odd Guy had himself a draft. Odd Guy picks up King Rome to start at C. It's been 7 seasons since he last played in the league but this guy is a Selke front-runner just by signing up. He's got thumbs and vision and him and Ozzy are going to get along great, I expect to see a lot of highlight-reel passing plays from that duo. FwamingDwagon is full time this season but I don't see anywhere else Croydon plays besides LW on this squad as I think Ozzy and Rome are fixtures. But both Croydon and Fwaming have skill and are both easily going to slot in beside these 2. This is a potent offensive line. On Defense Odd picked up a super solid d partner in RAWB who had a great rookie season on Power Kill's team last season. Guy is great defensively and will help Odd a ton. Regretzkys in net is the wild card. I know he can play it at a high level, I just don't know how long it has been since he has done so. He shouldn't have to carry this team but he will need to make the saves he's supposed to make. Flexible Pancake is a guy whos been lurking in 239s discord for like a year, and finally signed up, he's RD only, I think just a backup plan in case RAWB misses time, as it looks like he missed 2 series last season.

#4. Band Of Brothers

Nikdagreek - Rocco/Marty McFly1919 - Dmart/Hergy
Ian The Berean/Ranger Gordita - Drugmonkey
Hollywood

Dmart coming off his first championship in 14 seasons has taken another team with his brother this time and had a very solid draft. I think one of the harder things to manage as a co-captain tandem for our league so far has been managing the roster around 2 captains that play different positions. You have to find guys that can play multiple positions or in this case, find other part time guys that you want to draft to play each others position when you are out. And that's how Dmart and Marty solved this. Rocco and Hergsy are the PT guys these 2 picked up to play their positions when they are out and I think it works out really well for them. But first off Dmart and Marty pick up Drug to solidify their back end. Drug with anybody is going to be elite. He's going to make whoever his d partner is better and that's why he's valued so highly. They go out and pick up Nik as LW who is obviously attached at the hip to Drug. To round out the defense Dmart picks up Ian the Berean who I think has played the majority of his last couple of seasons with Dmart. I sense a bit of a bromance there. Ranger Gordita was picked up as another PT player and may see some time if she can win her way into a spot. Hollywood gets to play net behind this group and I predict a pretty good season for him. I think the defense on this team is going to be outstanding and he'll just have to make mostly routine saves.

#5. Once Upon a Time in....239

Gala - WizzyWar/See Dub 21 - Sauce Walka
The Lime - Dvetts/Mr Anderson
Schielf

Panarintino

Wizzy and Dub took their time in the draft as per usual with Wizzywar as a captain. They waited and waited and waited and waited. Then they pounced on Sauce Walka x 6 at 40 BoDs and Mr Anderson at 19. This is the core of their team. I said earlier I thought the hardest thing to manage is when you have 2 co-captains playing different positions but I have a feeling these 2 both are going to be playing Center for their team. Sauce is a really talented forward who I think we just saw the tip of the iceberg of last season. He put up 100 points and was great, but he also missed some games. I think we see a dominant season out of him this season. Gala is a rookie that Anderson brought in that I don't know much about. That said as an Anderson referral he's likely going to be a ringer. Anderson will be on RD for the games he plays this season, and then Dvetts will slot in afterwards for him. Dvetts was here for 1 season a while ago on a Wizzy championship team and I expect him to be pretty good for this team. But it's also been a while, has he been away from NHL that whole time or just not playing here? I am worried about how everyone's favorite squeeze will do on LD however and I know nothing about Schielf. So that said I am moderately worried about this teams backend, however, I don't expect this team to be in any danger of not making the playoffs regardless.

#6. Low Expectations

Swizzy/Suneedee - Young Buffalo - Young Kelch
Costa - Bluelineking/BCrenton/Knifeinyourguts
Bills 39

Swizz and BLK took went out and got YoungBuff right away, who would have thought that would happen. This was one of the more obvious picks in the draft, that said he only went for 19 BoD's which seems a bit light compared to some of the other centers in the league this season especially considering that I thought that Center was a very slim position for this draft and this guy is constantly up for Selke every season. Even if he's not lighting the world on fire every season offensively he's nullifying the other teams center every series. He's going to make your team compete and be a pain in the ass to play against no matter what because the center of the ice will just be a black hole. Next they grab Costa, who I know very little about. I only saw him play 1 or 2 games and that was it. I did not see the player that is worth 44 BoDs and the highest paid player in 239 but other captains did obviously. Guy is in a spot where one night he will get to play with BLK on D and another night he will play with Knife or BCRenton. Knife I haven't seen on D, Renton is ok but clearly a large step down from BLK. Sunneedee will play LW when Swizz is out which is a very good pick up for them in my opinion they play pretty similarly stylistically. Young Kelch will be the man on RW this season and I don't know if he's ready for it. He's going to have to score on a side I don't think he was prepared to play. I think he's happy to get a shot though and will do what he needs to to get ready for the season and used to playing that side of the ice. Bill39 is another goalie I don't know anything about but the Buffalonians on this team do.

Hello there ladies and gents…

Yes I know, I didn’t sign up for season 16 and I get some of you may have not even asked. It’s the summer and I’m ready to enjoy some beer out in the sun. Anyway, you’re not here for a summary of how I enjoy myself in the off time, you’re here for the pre-season rankings…

Now, when I’ve done this before I normally access a ranking to a team's offense, defense, and goaltending. Every season I do this I normally change around the “formula” for how I access this information. This season I will be giving a new setup to this format. You will see…

Offense: (this will rank the three forwards)
Defense: (ranking the two defensemen)
Goaltending: (ranking the one or two goalies on the team)
Team Offense: (overall team offense rank)
Team Defense: (overall team defense rank)
Overall: (overall team ranking)

It’s pretty self-explanatory…

I wasn’t able to watch the draft show because of work, but regardless I have asked captains to send some potential lineups. If they didn’t send me a potential lineup, I formatted one for them. Take it at face value.

At the very end, I will put what I believe the rankings are from #1 to #12. I’m ready to be ripped apart for all of this...