Week 16: Fantasy defenseman top 50 rankings for 2018-19

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FANTASY TOP 50 DEFENSEMAN RANKINGS

Standard Yahoo categories include goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal and now hits for skaters. ... Value has been quantified based on factors including but not limited to past production, defense pairs, power-play usage, injury history, sleeper, bounce-back or breakout potential, anticipated regression, age and contract status (potential 2019 UFA: \; RFA: \\). DTD indicates players with day-to-day injury concerns.*

1. Brent Burns, SJS (SAME)
2. Erik Karlsson, SJS* (DTD)
3. John Carlson, WSH (SAME)
4. Morgan Rielly, TOR (SAME)
5. Mark Giordano, CGY (SAME)
6. Victor Hedman, TBL (SAME)
7. Kris Letang, PIT (+1)
8. Seth Jones, CBJ (-1)
9. Dustin Byfuglien, WPG (NEW - INJ.)
10. John Klingberg, DAL (-1)
11. Torey Krug, BOS (-1)
12. Tyson Barrie, COL (-1)
13. Roman Josi, NSH (-1)
14. Thomas Chabot, OTT (-1)
15. Shea Weber, MTL (SAME)
16. Mattias Ekholm, NSH (SAME)
17. P.K. Subban, NSH (-3)
18. Rasmus Ristolainen, BUF (-1)
19. Keith Yandle, FLA (SAME)
20. Jeff Petry, MTL (+3)
21. Ryan Suter, MIN (+3)
22. Jake Muzzin, TOR (+3)
23. Drew Doughty, LAK (-2)
24. Rasmus Dahlin, BUF (-2)
25. Oliver Ekman-Larsson, ARI (+1)
26. Ryan Ellis, NSH (-6)
27. Zach Werenski, CBJ\\ (-9)
28. Aaron Ekblad, FLA (+1)
29. Jake Gardiner, TOR* (+3)
30. Erik Gustafsson, CHI (+7)
31. Dougie Hamilton, CAR (+4)
32. Shayne Gostisbehere, PHI (+6)
33. Jacob Trouba, WPG\\ (+3)
34. Justin Schultz, PIT (NEW - INJ.)
35. Jared Spurgeon, MIN (-2)
36. Alexander Edler, VAN* (DTD)
37. Darnell Nurse, EDM (-3)
38. Alex Pietrangelo, STL (-8)
39. Charlie McAvoy, BOS\\ (-8)
40. Miro Heiskanen, DAL (+6)
41. TJ Brodie, CGY (-2)
42. Ryan McDonagh, TBL (-2)
43. Oscar Klefbom, EDM (-2)
44. Shea Theodore, VGK (SAME)
45. Jaccob Slavin, CAR (-2)
46. Mike Green, DET (-18)
47. Ryan Pulock, NYI (SAME)
48. Mikhail Sergachev, TBL (-6)
49. Josh Morrissey, WPG (DTD)
50. Justin Faulk, CAR (NEW)

Dropped out: Nick Leddy, NYI; Brandon Montour, ANA; Colin Miller, VGK
Key injury: Matt Dumba, MIN Just Missed: Ivan Provorov and Travis Sanheim, PHI\\; Ryan Murray, CBJ; Vince Dunn and Carl Gunnarsson, STL; Mike Matheson, FLA; Will Butcher, NJD
READ: Last week's Top 50 defenseman rankings

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