Fantasy Baseball: Gentlemen, Start Your (Web) Engines!
Today is the day Yahoo! opens up their fantasy baseball leagues. They've delayed it a day in order to install some new fancy accoutrements, so we'll see how those work out. With ESPN.com switching to free leagues, I hope the competition forces them to offer some of the nice features they've had in the PLUS leagues for free.
I noticed that ESPN is offering Head-to-Head points-based leagues, which is (in my opinion) the only way to play a H2H league (but is still a fair ways off from regular Rotisserie, which is the absolute way to be playing fantasy baseball).
Yahoo hasn't dropped the green flag yet, but here's hoping you get a dandy draft time.
I noticed that ESPN is offering Head-to-Head points-based leagues, which is (in my opinion) the only way to play a H2H league (but is still a fair ways off from regular Rotisserie, which is the absolute way to be playing fantasy baseball).
Yahoo hasn't dropped the green flag yet, but here's hoping you get a dandy draft time.
posted by NoPepperGames at
11:00 AM
2 Comments:
Roto is probably the WORST way to play fantasy baseball. If it were the best, there would not have been improvements on the original.
Head to Head, with the decision based on points is the best way to play.
Why anyone would play in a league that values stolen bases as 1/10th of the game is beyond me.
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Anonymous, at 9:34 AM, February 24, 2007
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, and I'm glad to see some comments. However, 99% of the fantasy baseball world would disagree with you, including those that make thousands of dollars in LABR leagues, and the entire fantasy baseball publication industry. Brad Evans recently published an article regarding H2H draft strategy, and it's possibly the first such article I've ever read.
Again, that doesn't necessarily discount your point. SBs are a complete abomination as they relate to being an accurate reflection of true baseball strategy. But so are RBIs. So is Batting Average. So are Wins, and so are Saves. Unless you're in a true sabermetric league, there is little you can say to defend the categories you choose. Fantasy baseball is not, for the most part, about accurately recreating the real game.
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NoPepperGames, at 12:00 AM, February 25, 2007
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