KL Week in Review: Week 2

So, we have completed the second full week of competition. Here's the standings:

Early surprises

Of course, we are still in the early days of the season and its hard to draw too many conclusions. However, subject to a couple surprises, generally speaking the teams are shaking themselves into their expected positions (I'm not sure this is a good thing - perhaps that is something the new Commissioner wants to address? Feel free to post ideas for increasing parity).

1) The Winter Claassics in 5th place (though my projection does suggest Claassen will finish in 6th). This may well be the first year in KL history that the Claassics GM does not advocate for dissolution of the league ("seriously guys, its not because my team is terrible.")

2) The Milan Micahleks and the Schizzarks in last place (aka the "expansion slots"). I projected them in 3rd and 4th respectively. Why? Well, injuries to Rick Nash, Vincent Lecavalier and James Neal certainly don't help, but a few extra points from those players wouldn't bump them out of the dregs. Slow starts to depth players is killing them. Note that the opposite is also true: hot starts for the top teams have artificially inflated point totals (The Fylanders will not get 223 points from M-A Fleury, nor will Mathieu Perreault score at a PPG pace for the Flyers this year).

3) The Los Samjawors Kings are somehow tied for 9th place despite being the only team remaining with zero point players on their roster (both Dmitry Kulikov and Erik Gudbranson play tonight, so c'mon Panthers!). Why are they not in last place? 10 points from Niemi, a little fella named Sidney Crosby and a PPG pace from Grabovski (fuck).