Free Agent Frenzy!

Just a reminder, since its come up recently, free agent add/drops are tradeable assets. You have two of them to start the season. 9 GMs have used at least one of their add/drops, with 3 of you having used both already.

This is especially important this year as, since the start of the season, there have been a significant number of free agent add/drops (12 of a possible 32). In other words,  more than 1/3rd of the possible add/drops in this league have been used by the 1/6th point of the season.

How have these add/drops fared so far (excluding the last four as they have only had a day of gameplay or so)?

Date	Team	Dropped	Pts since	Added	Pts since	Diff
10/8/2013	Winter Claassics	Erat	5	Raymond	7	2
10/18/2013	Quebec Rordiques	Coyle	2	Higgins	6	4
10/19/2013	WBS  Parkers	Lovejoy	0	Vlasic	5	5
10/19/2013	Patrik Stefans	Tlusty	5	Arcobello	4	-1
10/20/2013	Powder Rangers	K. Palmieri	5	Tlusty	3	-2
10/26/2013	Los Samjawors Kings	Clowe	1	Santorelli	3	2
11/3/2013	Los Samjawors Kings	Gudbranson	0	Morris	0	0
11/3/2013	Winter Claassics	Jokinen	3	Shaw	0	-3
					Total	7

In general, our GMs have been savvy enough to come out, in total, ahead of the game so far. The biggest win goes to the Wilkes-Benham/Scranton Parkers, who are up 5 points since dropping Ben No-love/no-joy.

Higgins was also a good pickup this year for the Quebec Rordiques - however, I wonder if they will come to regret that move in future years, if Coyle becomes a star in this league?

The Winter Claassics continue to display a stunning degree of bad luck, with Olli Jokinen putting up a 3 point game like the day after being dropped for Andrew Shaw. Shaw, in turn, has gone quiet.

The Los Samjawors Kings gave up one offensive black hole in Gudbranson for another in Morris. In fairness, though, Morris was red hot at the time of the pickup. He had to cool off some time, but it was Winter Claassic-level bad luck that it happened to be the day the Kings used their final FA add/drop.

I'd be remiss without pointing out the fact that Tlusty, after being drafted, dropped, and then picked up again, has actually managed to lose TWO teams points. Both the Patrik Stefans and the Powder Rangers, hilariously, would have been better keeping Tlusty on and off their respective rosters so far.

I'm going to do this again in a couple of months and I look forward to seeing how these adds/drops have worked out in the longer term.