Here are the top 250 skaters and goalies ranking in descending order based on their value in 10- or 12-team "banger leagues." A typical banger league consists of the following categories:

Skaters Goalies Goals Wins Assists Goals-against average Plus/minus Save percentage Penalty minutes Shutouts Power-play points Shots on goal Hits Blocked shots

The key difference from a banger league and a standard league is the addition of hits and blocked shots. Though two additional categories may seem like a minor difference, it can have a major affect on the value of players.

Positional eligibility may vary by fantasy site. Some players may be eligible at multiple positions, but only their primary position is considered here.

Top 250

Rk. Player Team Pos. 1 Connor McDavid EDM C1 2 Erik Karlsson OTT D1 3 Brent Burns SJ D2 4 Sidney Crosby PIT C2 5 Alex Ovechkin WAS LW1 6 Victor Hedman TB D3 7 Jamie Benn DAL LW2 8 Patrick Kane CHI RW1 9 Vladimir Tarasenko STL RW2 10 Dustin Byfuglien WPG D4 11 Blake Wheeler WPG RW3 12 Steven Stamkos TB C3 13 Tyler Seguin DAL C4 14 Carey Price MTL G1 15 Evgeni Malkin PIT C5 16 Wayne Simmonds PHI RW4 17 Roman Josi NAS D5 18 Patrik Laine WPG RW5 19 Auston Matthews TOR C6 20 Matt Murray PIT G2 21 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF D6 22 Braden Holtby WAS G3 23 Jack Eichel BUF C7 24 Joe Pavelski SJ C8 25 Cam Talbot EDM G4 26 P.K. Subban NAS D7 27 Devan Dubnyk MIN G5 28 Nikita Kucherov TB RW6 29 Nicklas Backstrom WAS C9 30 Brad Marchand BOS LW3 31 Evander Kane BUF LW4 32 Alex Pietrangelo STL D8 33 Filip Forsberg NAS LW5 34 Leon Draisaitl EDM RW7 35 Shea Weber MTL D9 36 John Tavares NYI C10 37 Tuukka Rask BOS G6 38 Mark Giordano CGY D10 39 Ryan Getzlaf ANA C11 40 David Pastrnak BOS RW8 41 Nazem Kadri TOR C12 42 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR D11 43 Kris Letang PIT D12 44 Max Pacioretty MTL LW6 45 Mark Scheifele WPG C13 46 Patric Hornqvist PIT RW9 47 Corey Perry ANA RW10 48 Jake Allen STL G7 49 Chris Kreider NYR LW7 50 Anders Lee NYI LW8 51 William Nylander TOR RW11 52 Colton Parayko STL D13 53 Andrei Vasilevskiy TB G8 54 Artemi Panarin CLB LW9 55 Jonathan Quick LA G9 56 Mitch Marner TOR RW12 57 John Klingberg DAL D14 58 Alexander Radulov DAL RW13 59 Nino Niederreiter MIN RW14 60 Dougie Hamilton CGY D15 61 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI D16 62 Corey Crawford CHI G10 63 T.J. Oshie WAS RW15 64 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA LW10 65 Jeff Carter LA C14 66 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG RW16 67 Ryan Johansen NAS C15 68 Aleksander Barkov FLA C16 69 Ryan Kesler ANA C17 70 Jon Gibson ANA G11 71 Duncan Keith CHI D17 72 Milan Lucic EDM LW11 73 Claude Giroux PHI C18 74 Pekka Rinne NAS G12 75 Nick Foligno CLB LW12 76 Cam Atkinson CLB RW17 77 Ben Bishop DAL G13 78 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI D18 79 Seth Jones CLB D19 80 Patrice Bergeron BOS C19 81 Anze Kopitar LA C20 82 Johnny Gaudreau CGY LW13 83 Jeff Skinner CAR LW14 84 John Carlson WAS D20 85 Torey Krug BOS D21 86 Frederik Andersen TOR G14 87 Phil Kessel PIT RW18 88 Aaron Ekblad FLA D22 89 Zach Werenski CLB D23 90 Brayden Schenn STL C21 91 Taylor Hall NJ LW15 92 Sean Monahan CGY C22 93 Sebastian Aho CAR LW16 94 Ryan McDonagh NYR D24 95 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS C23 96 Jonathan Drouin MTL LW17 97 Mikael Granlund MIN C24 98 Martin Jones SJ G15 99 Boone Jenner CLB LW18 100 Brandon Dubinsky CLB C25 101 Patrick Maroon EDM LW19 102 Charlie Coyle MIN RW19 103 Tanner Pearson LA LW20 104 Scott Darling CAR G16 105 Nathan MacKinnon COL C26 106 James van Riemsdyk TOR LW21 107 Justin Schultz PIT D25 108 Mike Smith CGY G17 109 Kyle Palmieri NJ RW20 110 Logan Couture SJ C27 111 Justin Faulk CAR D26 112 Jacob Trouba WPG D27 113 Rickard Rakell ANA LW22 114 Brandon Saad CHI LW23 115 Viktor Arvidsson NAS RW21 116 Vincent Trocheck FLA C28 117 Mike Hoffman OTT LW24 118 Ivan Provorov PHI D28 119 Henrik Lundqvist NYR G18 120 Craig Anderson OTT G19 121 Nikita Zaitsev TOR D29 122 Brent Seabrook CHI D30 123 Jakub Voracek PHI RW22 124 Anthony Mantha DET RW23 125 Jonathan Toews CHI C29 126 Alex Galchenyuk MTL C30 127 Gabriel Landeskog COL LW25 128 Robin Lehner BUF G20 129 Dion Phaneuf OTT D31 130 J.T. Miller NYR C31 131 Matthew Tkachuk CGY LW26 132 Dmitry Orlov WAS D32 133 Eric Staal MIN C32 134 Martin Hanzal MIN C33 135 Cory Schneider NJ G21 136 David Backes BOS RW24 137 Oscar Klefbom EDM D33 138 Jaccob Slavin CAR D34 139 Mark Stone OTT RW25 140 Mats Zuccarello NYR RW26 141 Alexander Wennberg CLB C34 142 Adam Larsson EDM D35 143 Ryan Suter MIN D36 144 Nick Ritchie ANA LW27 145 Nolan Patrick PHI C35 146 Radko Gudas PHI D37 147 Cam Fowler ANA D38 148 Jake Gardiner TOR D39 149 Brian Elliott PHI G22 150 Thomas Greiss NYI G23 151 Jordan Staal CAR C36 152 Ryan Ellis NAS D40 153 Jason Spezza DAL C37 154 Henrik Zetterberg DET C38 155 Marc-Edouard Vlasic SJ D41 156 Tom Wilson WAS RW27 157 Jake Muzzin LA D42 158 Matt Niskanen WAS D43 159 Ondrej Palat TB LW28 160 Jake Guentzel PIT LW29 161 Matt Duchene COL C39 162 Patrick Marleau TOR LW30 163 Dustin Brown LA RW28 164 Travis Konecny PHI LW31 165 Jaden Schwartz STL LW32 166 Morgan Rielly TOR D44 167 Keith Yandle FLA D45 168 Leo Komarov TOR LW33 169 James Neal VGK RW29 170 Bryan Little WPG C40 171 Tyler Toffoli LA RW30 172 Tyson Barrie COL D46 173 Zach Parise MIN LW34 174 Evgeny Dadonov FLA RW31 175 Roberto Luongo FLA G24 176 James Reimer FLA G25 177 Nico Hischier NJ C41 178 Andre Burakovsky WAS LW35 179 Ryan Strome EDM RW32 180 Marcus Johansson NJ LW36 181 Conor Sheary PIT RW33 182 Steve Mason WPG G26 183 Connor Hellebuyck WPG G27 184 Tomas Hertl SJ LW37 185 Nate Schmidt VGK D47 186 Jonathan Marchessault VGK C42 187 Jordan Eberle NYI RW34 188 Marcus Foligno MIN LW38 189 Jimmy Howard DET G28 190 Sami Vatanen ANA D48 191 Hampus Lindholm ANA D49 192 Matt Dumba MIN D49 193 Charlie McAvoy BOS D51 194 Alec Martinez LA D52 195 Kyle Okposo BUF RW35 196 Antti Raanta ARI G29 197 Vadim Shipachyov VGK C43 198 Elias Lindholm CAR C44 199 Jakob Markstrom VAN G30 200 Semyon Varlamov COL G31 201 Josh Manson ANA D53 202 Tyler Johnson TB C45 203 Ryan O'Reilly BUF C46 204 Jakob Silfverberg ANA RW36 205 Kyle Turris OTT C47 206 Mika Zibanejad NYR C48 207 Miko Rantanen COL LW39 208 Adam Lowry WPG C49 209 Marc-Andre Fleury VGK G32 210 Jared Spurgeon MIN D54 211 Mark Borowiecki OTT D55 212 Zdeno Chara BOS D56 213 Shea Theodore VGK D57 214 Brendan Gallagher MTL RW37 215 Josh Anderson CLB RW38 216 Alexander Steen STL RW39 217 Bobby Ryan OTT RW40 218 Patrick Eaves ANA RW41 219 Dylan Larkin DET C50 220 Viktor Rask CAR C51 221 Antoine Roussel DAL LW40 222 Bo Horvat VAN C52 223 Andrej Sekera EDM D58 224 Julius Honka DAL D59 225 Paul Stastny STL C53 226 Daniel Sedin VAN LW41 227 Henrik Sedin VAN C54 228 Robby Fabbri STL C55 229 Derek Stepan ARI C56 230 Joe Thornton SJ C57 231 Brandon Montour ANA D60 232 Matt Martin TOR LW42 233 Ryan Reaves PIT RW42 234 Andrew Shaw MTL C58 235 Sam Reinhart BUF C59 236 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM RW43 237 Richard Panik CHI LW43 238 Kevin Fiala NAS LW44 239 Nick Schmaltz CHI LW45 240 Andrew Ladd NYI LW46 241 Dylan Strome ARI C60 242 Matthew Barzal NYI C61 243 Nick Bonino NAS C62 244 David Krejci BOS C63 245 Patrick Sharp CHI LW47 246 Jason Zucker MIN LW48 247 Luke Schenn ARI D61 248 Kris Russell EDM D62 249 Ian Cole PIT D63 250 Calvin de Haan NYI D64

These rankings will be updated throughout the lead-up to the season.