Goodbye fantasy baseball, and good riddance
I'm so glad it's finally time to turn our attention to the real fantasy sport, in part because what's happening to my fantasy baseball team right now could never happen in fantasy football. I'm in a tight playoff battle this week (with the league rookie, no less), and today FOUR of my batters aren't playing because bad weather postponed their games. There are only five offensive categories in our league - AVG, R, HR, RBI, and SB - four of which are cumulative rather than average-based, so I take a big goose egg in all of them when my guys don't play. My opponent has only one postponed player to deal with.
It's crap like this that makes me look forward all the more to fantasy football, and the knowledge that while my players might get hurt or suspended, they'll never put up a goose egg because of a little rain.
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#1. ffexchange, 9 months ago
The only way to play fantasy baseball is to ditch the head to head and play with cumulative stats. Far more involved and you don't have to deal with stuff like this. I actually feel head to head is bad for fantasy football as well, I have finished out of the playoffs before with the most total points in the league.
#2. ryan, 9 months ago
You're not enjoying it because you're playing head to head. Roto is the only way to play.
#3. Matt, 9 months ago
Played plenty of roto before, never really enjoyed it. The trash talk just isn't on the same level.
#4. ryan, 9 months ago
The thing is, baseball isn't a weekly sport like football is. It's more suited to daily lineups and a pennant race with 12 teams all year than a weekly win/loss record and playoffs when all the good players are taking extra games off.
#5. Matt, 9 months ago
Definitely true, but roto just doesn't do it for me. I pretty much just treat fantasy baseball like methodone, it holds me over until I can binge on the real thing again come fall.
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