Brock Seguin releases Top 300 fantasy hockey rankings for 2026-27

Fantasy hockey analyst Brock Seguin has released his Top 300 player rankings for the 2026-27 NHL season on Daily Faceoff. The new list, published September 25, 2026, is designed as a ready-made draft board for poolies preparing for both season-long leagues and office pools.

The rankings cover 300 NHL players ordered by projected fantasy value rather than real-life reputation or contract status. Seguin positions the list as a central planning tool that helps managers map out their draft strategy and compare risk versus reward from the first round to the late sleepers.

Data-driven model behind the rankings

Seguin’s process starts with a full statistical projection for every NHL skater and goalie. Those projections are built from multiple seasons of historical data, expected usage on their real teams and regression adjustments that bring outlier performances back toward more sustainable levels, such as when a shooter posts an unusually high conversion rate in one campaign.

From there, each player is run through a simulation engine that plays out thousands of possible seasons, allowing for hot streaks, cold spells and injuries to shift the outcomes. The result is a projected range for every player, with a floor that reflects a plausible low-end scenario and a ceiling that captures a realistic best case. Seguin emphasizes that this range matters on draft day: early picks tend to prioritize a strong floor that won’t tank a season, while late-round selections are where managers can afford to chase upside.

The goal is to reduce reliance on gut feel or highlight-reel bias and instead anchor decisions in quantified risk and reward. Rather than pretending one prediction can perfectly capture a player’s future, the method acknowledges uncertainty and tries to express it in a way fantasy managers can actually use.

Tailored to common fantasy league formats

Seguin’s Top 300 aims to be relevant for both points-only and multi-category leagues. Player value is calculated using a hybrid scoring model that accounts for standard offensive stats along with contributions in popular peripheral categories, reflecting how players drive results in typical fantasy setups.

To build that model, Seguin surveyed Daily Faceoff readers about the types of leagues they play in and which categories they prioritize. The final scoring settings mirror those used in leagues run by more than three quarters of respondents, making the rankings broadly applicable to the site’s audience. For fantasy managers heading into 2026-27 drafts, the Top 300 offers a single, structured board that lines up with the most common league formats while staying firmly rooted in data and simulation work.