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What type of fantasy baseball scoring is the best?

Chris M asked:


I am going to start fanasy baseball for the first time. I have played football and hockey. What kind of scoring should i use?
Rotisserie
Head-to-Head
Points Only
thanks

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10 Responses to “What type of fantasy baseball scoring is the best?”

  1. jcenathuganomics on May 31st, 2008 at 7:49 am

    HEAD TO HEAD, its the funest.

  2. rotisserie. In rotisserie it gives you pionts for the whole season. In head to head you play one team a week. Facing off head to head doesn’t really tell you how good your team is, bc you could BARELY lose a category but it gives the other team that point. In rotisserie it just totals it all. do rotisserie.

  3. plymouthbarracuda1969 on June 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am

    head to head for sure, a lot more fun, you play a different team each week not the entire league all the time.

  4. Head to Head is easily the most fun.

  5. a well set up points league will be the most enjoyable. The yahoo standard points scoring is a bit low for pitchers. Look for a points league that has pitchers and hitters scoring about the same amount of points, and you will have a very fun time.

  6. clay4president345 on June 8th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    I like Head-to-Head because it makes it more interesting.

  7. Head-to-Head it’s really easy to understand and more realistic.

  8. Head to Head. normally I’m in a league with a bunch of friends so it is alot more entertaining when i get to talk smack after a big win.

  9. Head-to-Head is better with friends (my opinion, just like the rest of this stuff) and Roto is fun with public and sometimes friends

  10. No doubt that rotisserie is the best. It is the only true scoring system.

    In head to head you only have to be better than one team that week irrespective of what the other teams do. Also, in H2H, you can have the second best week, lose to the best team and you may as well have been the worst team because lesser performances are rewarded. Rotisserie scoring is better because it takes into account your cummulative performance and not just the iterative periods in an arbitrary schedule.

    Furthermore, in H2H it is harder to recover from poor stretches because you can only beat the team you play against in a given week. Conversely, in rotisserie you are compared to the rest of the league on a composite basis as opposed to one team at a time each week.

    H2H holds no advantages over rotisserie unless you want a fantasy league that doesn’t reward the best team.

    Points leagues are horrible. They don’t have anything to do with the sport of baseball because you can just stack up on one or a few categories because very disparate stats are somehow equated. Points leagues want you to believe that x number of SB are worth just as much as y number of saves. How dumb is that? In rotisserie, you need to perform well across all categories to win.

    In short, H2H and points leagues are less fun, less competitive and often reward teams that are not the best, but the most lucky.

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