Fantasy Baseball Question?

Question

I am in an 8-team league and for the past few years we have been playing both leagues.

Having an 8-team league, should we be using both leagues? It seems to me that one league should suffice.

My problem with using both leagues is this: Last year we had an owner who drafted zero starting pitchers in the draft, loaded up on offense and picked the best closer. He ended up with the best record in the league because of his stacked offense, his closer, and each week he had so many 2-start pitchers to choose from, he'd just drop and add pitchers. Having all those 2 start pitchers he'd consitently win Ws, Ks, and Saves(because of his closer)...and to boot he'd win most O categories because of the way his draft went.

How do I fix this? Limit transactions? What's a fair number for a season to throw out there without people panicking that they might run out so quickly.

It should be realistic. And not drafting pitchers in the draft and doing well is far from that.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Eight is pretty shallow for using both leagues. If you absolutely need to use both, try adding more bench spots. As for limiting transactions, it sounds like you have weekly instead of daily lineups, so figure on two or three a week. If it is daily lineup transactions 70 or 80 is about right. You may be able to reset for the playoffs as well to keep an owner from saving transactions then loading up come playoff time. That sort of thing can be a problem. In a hockey league last year, the guy who made a couple hundred transactions and dropped all of his star forward defensemen (including Ovechkin) won so this year I set a limit of 90, to prevent this but still allow adequate transactions for anyone needing them.

Answer 2

8 team leagues is like watching an all-star game; tons of talent, but eventually gets boring.
I would do 2 of 3 things:
1) Set it to only AL or NL league, that way it is harder to stack your team and there is less talent to pick off the waiver wire.
2) Set a transaction limit; that way your buddy or anyone else can't keep picking up and dropping people. He might start winning to all the pitching stats in the beginning, but when he can't make any more moves, he'll be screwed toward the end.
3) Expand you league; make it a 10 or 12 team league.

Answer 3

Well i think one league would be fine with only 8 teams. There are plenty of players to choose from in either the AL or NL league.

As to the point of the guy that won the league last year, he came up with the best draft stratagy and thats why he won the league. You are probably just jealous that you didn't think to do that.

If you were to limit transactions i would probably limit them to an average of maybe 3 per week.

Answer 4

you could change values and transactions but, that would change the way everyone plays the game. and someone will figure out another way to dominate the league. I would add players to your league which makes it much harder (i like a 14 team league) a deeper league gives teams less (GOOD) players to chose from thus less transactions.

Answer 5

limit the transactions and say you have to have pitchers or youre out of the league

Answer 6

this is quite the predicament and i have been in the same situation before myself. one option would be to make the categories for pitchers like hits, walks, ER, etc. the person will inevitably lose those categories cancelling out the W and K categories

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I dont think you should set those sorts of limits. This guy had a great strategy which led him to victory i might just try that strategy