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
2007-02-21 12:28:35 · 12 answers · asked by Chris M 1 in Sports ➔ Fantasy Sports
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.
2007-02-22 17:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by rencito_4040 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Both are competitive. "There are two types of fantasy league formats, head to head or rotisserie. The head to head puts you against another team in your league for one week. You earn 'points' based on the categories. For example there will be categories such as goals, powerplay points, goalie wins, etc. If you get more goals than your opponent that week you win that point, same with the other categories. At the end of the week you tally your 'points', if there were 10 categories you could win ten points. The following monday you begin all over against a new team but the stats from the previous week DON'T COUNT for anything. In ROTISSERIE you gain throughout the season, every goal, every powerplay point, every penalty minute counts, there are usually about ten categories. Depending on your totals for each category you can earn from 1 to 12 points for each (assuming there are 12 players in your league). These 'scores' change every day depending on the previous nights stats. In theory if you were leading in all ten categories you'd have 120 points (12 teams times 10 categories) but this rarely occurs. If you were 3rd in goals you'd get ten points, 10th in wins, you'd get three points (as you see, points are in reverse order of placing). If in our league we only get 8 teams then the highest possible score on any given day would be 80, lowest score would be 8 (last in every category). Hope this helps." This is a hockey based post that I got when I asked the same question, but it's the same way for baseball. Head-to-head you compete against one person to win the most categories that week, rotisserie it's against everyone for the whole year.
2016-03-29 06:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-21 13:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by brat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
head to head for sure, a lot more fun, you play a different team each week not the entire league all the time.
2007-02-21 13:22:46 · answer #4 · answered by plymouthbarracuda1969 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-21 14:22:44 · answer #5 · answered by Wham 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Head to Head is easily the most fun.
2007-02-21 13:37:45 · answer #6 · answered by Smartest Man Alive 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-02-21 15:05:16 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-02-21 12:43:56 · answer #8 · answered by mac 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I like Head-to-Head because it makes it more interesting.
2007-02-21 13:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by Joe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Head-to-Head it's really easy to understand and more realistic.
2007-02-21 13:56:33 · answer #10 · answered by Jake 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋