BENCHWISE NHL PLAYER POOL · v0.3
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One CSV row per unique player. One contest, platform and slate date per file.

PLATFORM
platform: optional exact DraftKings or FanDuel on EVERY row; mismatches are rejected.
Untagged legacy files require explicit platform confirmation in the builder. Salaries, positions and projections are never converted between platforms.
Classic multi-game only; no Showdown, single-game, late-swap or contest-entry support.

REQUIRED
id: unique contest player ID (not necessarily an NHL ID)
name: player name
position: C, W, LW, RW, D or G; slash-separated multi-position eligibility allowed for skaters
team: official team abbreviation
salary: positive whole-number contest salary
projection: complete expected fantasy points for the selected platform; alternatively supply model inputs below

MODEL INPUTS FOR SKATERS
All goals, assists, shots, blocks and their recent equivalents are PER-GAME RATES, not totals.
games: season sample size (>0)
recentGames: recent sample size (0–10 recommended)
goals,assists,shots,blocks: season per-game rates (all four needed for the model)
recentGoals,recentAssists,recentShots,recentBlocks: per-game rates over the SAME recent window
ppPoints,shPoints: per-game power-play and short-handed point rates, optional (default 0)
oppGaPerGame: opponent observed goals allowed per game, optional (default no adjustment)
An explicit projection overrides the model points. Component estimates still appear from model inputs.

ROLE AND AVAILABILITY
opponent: opponent team abbreviation; required to avoid skaters facing your goalie
line: even-strength line identifier, consistent within each team
ppUnit: power-play unit identifier, consistent within each team
status: out, injured, scratched, suspended, inactive are excluded automatically; unknown status is not verified active
start: ISO start time WITH Z or UTC offset, e.g. 2026-10-08T23:00:00Z
date: slate date YYYY-MM-DD Eastern time; all rows must match the selected date
goalieStatus: confirmed, projected, likely or unknown. Confirmed-only filtering is on by default.
toi: observed average minutes of ice time per game

POWER PLAY
ppShots: player's observed PP shots in the chosen window (total)
teamPpShots: team's observed PP shots over EXACTLY THE SAME games (total)
teamPpPct: observed team power-play success percentage, 0–100
oppPkPct: observed opponent penalty-kill percentage, 0–100
ppOpportunities: observed PP opportunities per game, not a forecast
Missing values are not estimated. Zero team PP shots produces unavailable share.

EXPECTED-GOAL / LINE DATA
xgf60,xga60: expected goals FOR and AGAINST per 60 minutes for this even-strength LINE, not individual or team rates
lineMinutes: observed minutes for this line over the same time window
Use the SAME values on every player of one line. Do not sum repeated line data.
opponentLine: likely opposing line if known; do not guess
matchupStatus: confirmed, projected or unverified
source: source name and observation window; identify the model used for xG
Use one consistent xG model and strength definition. Low-sample rankings can be filtered by line minutes.

GOALIES
For generated goalie points supply winProbability, saves, goalsAgainst, shutoutProbability.
Probabilities are 0–1; saves and goalsAgainst are expected counts. Optional otLossProbability defaults to 0.
A supplied projection instead uses your source's complete goalie projection.

SCORING / MODEL
DraftKings: G 8.5, A 5, SOG 1.5, BLK 1.3, SH point 2; Poisson threshold estimates for 3 goals, 5 shots, 3 blocks and 3 points.
FanDuel: G 12, A 8, SOG 1.6, BLK 1.6, PP point .5, SH point 2.
Goalies: DK win 6, save .7, GA -3.5, shutout 4, OT loss 2 and Poisson 35-save bonus; FD win 12, save .8, GA -4, shutout 8.
Shootout goals, goalie offensive scoring and rare events are omitted from generated projections.
Recent weighting is min(65%, recentGames/10 * 65%). Goal/assist opponent factor clamps opponent GA per game / 3.0 to 0.8–1.2.
This is an unvalidated heuristic; it has not been backtested. Projection uncertainty is not modeled.

OPTIMIZER
DraftKings preset: $50k, 2C/3W/2D/G/UTIL, max 7 total players from one team.
FanDuel preset: $55k, 2C/2W/2D/G/2UTIL, max 4 from one team.
DraftKings requires three different skater teams; FanDuel requires three teams including the goalie. Verify against your specific contest rules.
Search honors locks, exclusions, required team/line/PP stacks and optional goalie-opponent avoidance.
A time-limited result is explicitly marked as best found unless optimality is proven.
The download is a REVIEW FILE, not an official contest upload. BenchWise submits no entries.