Everything this guy Jon Bois does on YouTube is fantastic as a sports fan. You need to watch these.
In other news completely unrelated to my earlier complaints, I had a lengthy streak of sustained success during the middle of the season to bring me into a playoff spot followed by a streak of losses to drop me out into seventh.I don't think there's been a player on my team who hasn't been injured yet
I needed one hit from Cargo and Arenados last two at bat's to take down the #1 seed. In Coors vs the padres. So of course they both don't get a hit.
Why you gotta get that seed.Fuckin garbage ass season ends on a tiebreak. Fuck this shit. Gonna be hella pissed if I can't win my own league either
Holy shit. Great writeup man. I agree with most of what you said, except I would say homers is the most important H2H stat because it secondarily contributes to R, RBI, AVG/OPS. It might be less valuable than before because you can literally pick up a FA with 30 homers nowadays, but the same could be argued for pitchers who rack up Ks. Everyone strikes out now (except Mookie, Justin Turner, and Votto ironically) because that's how the game is nowadays, so the value of a high Ks pitcher is diluted. But in roto, a pitcher's K/9, along with 5-cat hitters, is one of the most important things I look for. It's so important to address every category in roto, whereas in H2H, my calling card has been loading up on power bats and throw shit on the wall for a pitching staff and hope something sticks, which I've had reasonable success with I think.wall
I see what you're saying, and to some extent I agree - bats are definitely where your money should be. What I mean, however, is that Ks should be where your focus is. You can't control whether your team hits 2 or 20 home runs in any given week - all you can do is give yourself the best possible chance to win Runs, Home Runs, and RBI week in and week out (and, given how correlated they are, they definitely should be the primary focus of any H2H team). Ks, however, you can reliably win every single week simply by staying active and making smart pickups / playing your weekly matchups, and it's an easy way to start out effectively up 1 - 0 in any given matchup if you're paying attention. There's really no other stat that is that reliable.Holy shit. Great writeup man. I agree with most of what you said, except I would say homers is the most important H2H stat because it secondarily contributes to R, RBI, AVG/OPS. It might be less valuable than before because you can literally pick up a FA with 30 homers nowadays, but the same could be argued for pitchers who rack up Ks. Everyone strikes out now (except Mookie, Justin Turner, and Votto ironically) because that's how the game is nowadays, so the value of a high Ks pitcher is diluted. But in roto, a pitcher's K/9, along with 5-cat hitters, is one of the most important things I look for. It's so important to address every category in roto, whereas in H2H, my calling card has been loading up on power bats and throw shit on the wall for a pitching staff and hope something sticks, which I've had reasonable success with I think.
Or better still, we could play roto again if you want no play-offs and no stupid variability.I feel like the best kind of catching target for a high output offense is a low risk, low reward late round/waiver catcher. I drafted a flyer on Travis D'Arnaud in my money league, but I've rid out Alex Avila for the first part of the season and Christian Vasquez for the second half. I feel like the value of having an average-centric catcher that can provide chip counting stats while not affecting your average is a valuable addition to have in weeks where your offense just can't pull away.
Unlike with pitching stats, where IPs can fluctuate drastically from week to week and you're a slave to the randomness of when your two-starts hit or when your closer will be used and can correct that by investing in streams to fill gaps... you usually are given a fairly consistent range of ABs that you have in a week to accrue stats and losing possible insurance stats to run an entire week without a catcher to me is overly risky. Over the course of a season, you win/lose categories by the smallest margins at times and having that fairly consistent contribute can make the difference between a W/L in a week and seeding in the long term.
I have absolutely no appeal in chasing .230 / 15-20 HR catchers because the inconsistency is not worth the hassle and the wasting of precious weekly moves to keep swapping out streaking catchers is definitely not worth it to my play style. But there are enough FA catchers out there that are low risk enough to give you some stats without giving you the headaches to consider completely punting the position/ABs completely.
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Also, side note, I fucking hate H2H playoffs. It's fucking trash to decide a league on the last 4 weeks of a baseball season with September Call Ups, managers resting players, starters and position players checking out or tiring out, injuries coming to a head and DL stints becoming non-existent and fucking up lineups.
In an active league, it is so much better to just have the season go until the end of the year without playoffs and just whoever has the best record at the end of the year win. You don't need a playoff system like you do in real sports because the end of any regular season throughout all sports in selective greatness but overall garbage.
UncleSam won't play unless it's redraft. Which is fine. We can have a side league that's roto redraft since I'd like our keeper league to remain H2H. Prolly won't get 10 (from Smogon) but that's manageable