It's important to keep that in mind in your player valuations if you choose a points league. Again, AJ Mass' points league rankings are as helpful here as they are in the head-to-head version.
Once you've picked your preferred format, determining the extent of which you want to utilize your league's player pool is the next critical step. This has both a bearing on your draft strategy as well as how deep your league's free-agent pool will be during the year. The number of teams in your league is a key decision. The more managers, the deeper you'll dig into the player pool and therefore the greater level of knowledge of the major leagues you'll need, but also the greater number of potential trade partners as well as the greater the challenge.
Typically only three of the hitting backups per team have large enough roles to warrant fantasy consideration in any format, and only the closer and of those middle relievers also do so.
That means a grand total of players per big league team are fantasy-relevant on any given day, or total players. Considering a typical fantasy team is comprised of 22 regulars -- 13 hitters and nine pitchers -- and three bench players, that means that a league that wishes to have all of those fantasy-relevant big leaguers rostered can have as many as Since most fantasy players prefer to draw from only a big league team's starting lineup, rotation and closer, however, that's only 14 players per team and total players.
That's enough to cover One could divide the player pool into AL- and NL-only, as the aforementioned LABR and Tout Wars still do for some of their league formats , at which point those calculations of total players would be and That's why AL- and NL-only leagues are typically no greater than 12 teams in depth, and in fact, my longest-running home AL- and NL-only leagues feature only nine teams apiece.
I'd suggest 10 as the optimal number for an "only" league. As for mixed leagues -- those which include the entirety of the majors in the player pool -- 15 is my preferred size, including the expansion of the roster to include two active catchers for 23 overall active players, and six bench spots. A team league would therefore have players active and rostered at any given time, or roughly three-quarters of the "fantasy-relevant" portion of the major league player pool.
It's digging deep enough to create healthy competition, yet shallow enough to ensure that some extremely relevant players will be on the free-agent list in-season. Feel free to experiment with the number of teams in your leagues, with a team mixed a good starting point in addition to our team standard.
There's no reason to think that only the five standard league types we offer, and the categories we include within them, are the finite number of ways to play.
With ESPN's League Manager, you have additional controls to alter the categories, or the scoring system itself, within each of said five formats. Want to replace batting average with on-base percentage, a move popularized this century with the increasing focus on advanced analytics? Want to add holds in order to heighten the value of those oft-forgotten middle relievers?
You can do that. Roto 6x6: A league format I first pitched as far back as , roto 6x6 replaces batting average with both on-base and slugging percentage, wins with quality starts, strikeouts with strikeouts-per-nine-innings ratio, and adds innings pitched to the pitching mix, all in the quest to create a more sabermetrically oriented game.
With the advent of the "opener" in , however, I've been more hesitant to recommend leagues switching from 5x5 to 6x6 scoring, being that the opener strategy mathematically eliminates the prospect of a quality start and teams are increasingly keeping their starters on limited pitch counts. I still consider it a better way to play, but have been considering recommending a change to the quality start's inclusion in this scoring system with the league trending in the direction it has.
The setup is simple: select a Season Points league, then change your settings to only award one point per home run. Using an ESPN Season Points league, you can set up a system that awards players for negative outcomes: positive points for at-bats but negative points for hits, points for hitter strikeouts, times hit into a double play and caught stealing; and on the pitcher side points for hits, walks, hit batsmen, earned runs allowed, losses, blown saves, wild pitches and balks, and negative points for innings pitched those are outs recorded, and a positive outcome for a pitcher.
Now that you've got your league type picked out, it's time to start preparing for the most important day on your calendar: draft day.
In the next Playbook edition, we'll talk more about salary-cap leagues and auction drafts -- the original format for selecting players in the aforementioned rotisserie league. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Playbook Inning 2: League formats. Fantasy baseball: Way-too-early H2H categories rankings.
To enable JavaScript, follow these instructions. Yahoo questions? Sign up here. Overall playoff seeding options In leagues without divisions, playoff seeds are based on overall standings. League's that use divisions have the following options: Division winners awarded top playoff seeds - Division winners are awarded the top seeds.
Overall standings determine the rest. All teams seeded according to overall standings - Regardless of division results, all playoff seeds are determined by overall standings. Division winners advance, but seeded by overall standings - Division winners are guaranteed a playoff spot, but playoff seeds are determined by overall standings. Playoff week options are: Weeks 17, 18, and 19 Weeks 18, 19, and 20 Weeks 19, 20, and 21 Weeks 20, 21, and 22 Weeks 21, 22, and 23 Weeks 22, 23, and 24 Weeks 23, 24, and Options for playoff weeks are: Weeks 17, 18, and 19 Weeks 18, 19, and 20 Weeks 19, 20, and 21 Weeks 20, 21, and 22 Weeks 21, 22, and 23 Weeks 22, 23, and 24 Weeks 23, 24, and 25 used in Public Free and Public Prize Leagues.
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