💰 IceCore Value Board

Players are ranked by Fan Points: the top 180 skaters are split into 18 groups of 10, and the top 20 goalies into two groups of 10. In each group, one highest salary and one lowest salary are excluded; the remaining eight salaries are averaged. The benchmark calculation itself is unchanged in this revision. Only its displayed value is rounded to a whole Coin.

If multiple players share the lowest salary of 0, only one of those players is removed as the lowest value; the other zero-salary player remains in the eight-player average.

Whole Coins are easier to compare in a long table. The original benchmark values are preserved for the calculation; the displayed benchmark is rounded to the nearest whole Coin, with .5 rounded upward. The projected Increase shown in this preliminary board is then recalculated using that displayed whole-number benchmark, as requested.

Every managed player receives a base increase of +4 Coins. A player below the rounded benchmark receives an additional one-third of the gap.

Increase = 4 + max(0, (Benchmark − Salary) ÷ 3)

The final result is rounded to a whole Coin, with .5 rounded upward. Players at or above the benchmark receive +4. The official Base may later be +3, +4 or +5 under the league's Floating Base rule.

If a player is absent from Draft Results, the snapshot uses a salary of 0 Coins. That value remains part of the benchmark calculation and the player's status is calculated normally. A zero salary alone does not prove that the player is a free agent or that the player has no manager.

A dash in the Team column means the player is not assigned to a managed franchise in this snapshot. The player remains in the ranking group and in the benchmark calculation, but no projected Increase is shown because there is no team/manager to apply it to.

The starting Base Increase is +4 Coins and can move only between +3 and +5. After the completed regular season, the league averages the 20 group benchmarks and rounds that average to the nearest whole Coin (.5 rounds upward). If the rounded average rises versus the previous season, the Base falls by 1; if it falls, the Base rises by 1; if unchanged, the Base stays the same. The Base never goes below +3 or above +5.

Most Underpriced is the largest positive gap between benchmark and salary. Most Overpaid is the largest salary premium above benchmark. Team awards exclude unassigned players and require at least five ranked players in the franchise's snapshot roster. Categories that require unavailable data, such as reliable Fan Points per Coin or a complete preseason rank, are omitted rather than guessed.

Suppose a group has salaries of 130, 92, 60, 45, 42, 37, 25, 8, 3 and 1 Coins. Remove the highest (130) and the lowest (1). The remaining eight salaries total 312, so the benchmark is 312 ÷ 8 = 39 Coins. If a managed player earns 25 Coins, the gap is 39 − 25 = 14. The projected increase is 4 + (14 ÷ 3) = 8.67, rounded to +9 Coins. In this revised display, the same formula uses the benchmark rounded to a whole Coin.