Game Guide

Since you're here visiting our site you're most likely a fan of fantasy hockey. Hence you know that the main objective of any fantasy hockey is to get as many points as possible from the real life performances of NHL hockey players.

SweGamers Market Fantasy Hockey is not an ordinary fantasy hockey. Sure, the main objective is still the same as all the other fantasy hockey formats. But there's a secondary objective, making money, which makes the market fantasy hockey format unique.

The player's values varies from day to day based on the daily trading balance. That is, the cost of players goes up and down each day depending on how many managers are buying and selling them, analogous to the stock market. For instance, if a lot of managers buy a particular player on the same day that player's value will rise the following day as the scores and prices are updated. Since better players generally cost more, the faster you make money the earlier you can field a star studded team.

By buying low and selling high you may be able to increase the value of your "wallet". For example, if you are adept at the market part of the game you may be able to get your initial 50 million to become 70 + million by the end of the season. Since the most skilled skaters and goalies are more expensive, some cost almost as much as 10 million, it is necessary to increase the value of your wallet during the season in order to be able to buy all the talent you need in order to be successful at the main objective, scoring points.

Generally speaking, there are some simple factors to keep in mind when trying to increase the value of your team:

The schedule

As you are more likely to score more points if your players are taking part in more games it's important that the skaters and goalies on your roster play on teams that have a busy schedule ahead of them. And since it's points you are essentially looking for a lot of managers tend to buy players from these teams that are about to enter a period of hectic schedule. As a consequence players on these teams are more likely to increase in value.

In-game Schedule: Two Week Schedule

Player form

A player who suddenly becomes hot tend to rise in value as managers try to take advantage of the player's hot streak. The opposite applies to players who are cold and have for instance gone without scoring for a number of games.

Player status

If for example a skater from the checking line suddenly gets the chance to play on the first scoring line, or on a power play unit, his value may increase as managers suddenly find him more priceworthy in comparison to before.

Injuries

It's important to keep track of injuries, this since a player can drop in value pretty fast if he gets badly hurt. It may therefore be paramount selling the player right away when being injured. At least if the injury is considered to be a serious one.

Trades

Every Thursday you get five trades. These trades can be used any day of the week and if unused they roll over to the following week. In terms of increase in value though it might be good to know that managers tend to buy / sell more early on after having received new trades, which means that player value increases / decreases will be greater the days following Thursday.

Value increase / decrease

How much a player's value increases or decreases a particular day depends on how many managers are buying or selling him that particular day. However, a player is not able to increase or decrease by more than 200,000 in a single day. Players who have no or almost no owner drop 20,000 in value per day.