tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262642253132428338.post6436806081651203173..comments2024-02-29T01:19:23.399-05:00Comments on SportsJudge Blog: SportsJudge.com Round Table: Setting Up Your LeagueMarc Edelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02788558243990338878noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262642253132428338.post-88523093999543165152011-11-01T12:47:48.265-04:002011-11-01T12:47:48.265-04:00It won't truly have success, I believe this wa...It won't truly have success, I believe this way.www.navarra-3d.comhttp://www.navarra-3d.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262642253132428338.post-18910763939247577792008-02-25T16:42:00.000-05:002008-02-25T16:42:00.000-05:00I must say I'm surprised by all the fans of head t...I must say I'm surprised by all the fans of head to head in baseball. I for one, prefer head to head in football (any given sunday) but absolutely not in baseball. I consider baseball to be "the fantasy players sport". Meaning that real fantasy players prefer roto baseball because skill is the main contributer to winning, not luck. With HTH, luck becomes the main factor in winning, which in football is OK because that's the nature of the sport. But baseball I would argue is not as random. You can be good for a few weeks or even a few months in baseball, but championships happen because of consistensy throughout the season. HTH adds too much luck to the league. Once the playoffs start, you're completely ignoring the previous 5 months. HTH tends to benefit the less skilled managers while punishing the better ones. <BR/><BR/>As far as the problem of being teams out by the All-Star break, I couldn't disagree more. First, have you guys ever heard of trades???. Second, I've seen people go from last to first after the All-Star break before. It's not unheard of at all. Third, in my experience the standings tend to tighten up after the all-star breaks as the law of averages kicks in and players performances are normalized. The notion that someone is out of contention by the All-Star break just shows a poor manager and attitude to me. Maybe you guys need to be playing with better players?<BR/><BR/>Elliot<BR/>www.iRoto.comElliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04045549694436815841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3262642253132428338.post-16486916850826484332008-02-18T22:05:00.000-05:002008-02-18T22:05:00.000-05:00Well, it seems as though most of you really like h...Well, it seems as though most of you really like head to head. When I started playing fantasy baseball in 1998, I played Grandstand Fantasy on AOL, which to this day has still been my favorite of online fantasy. Their format was Head to Head, 2 matches per week (M-R, F-Sun) and each matchup consisted of a possibility of 3 wins: hitting, pitching, and overall. It was also a points league, so that every category was worth a point value. In my opinion, if someone were to do H2H, this is the best way to do it. When it is based on categories, there are too many wins/losses per week and it brings a lot of luck into the equation. Baseball is not a week - week sport, it is more of a long run statistical game, and in a full week of head to head sometimes you only have your ace pitch once and sometimes twice, which also skew the stats.<BR/><BR/>In the past few years, I have become a huge proponent of ROTO, simply because in the end the best team does in fact win the league. There is very little luck involved, and the stats prove the winner in the end. Even if you have injuries, it is your job to make up those stats threw depth of the waiver wire. <BR/><BR/>Many feel that by the all-star break, the standings are already decided, but it has been my experience that the standings still change drastically by the end. The first half is worth exactly the same as the second half, so while you might be winning in HR, R, and SB's in the first half, in order to keep that status you need a similar second half, and rarely do players have the same first and second half (see Prince, Jose Reyes, Dan Haren, etc.)<BR/><BR/>If I am second in a category after the first 2 months, and 2nd to last in those same catrgories the next two months, I will be losing to someone who has been 4th in that category for all 4 months, which in my mind, makes sense. I shouldn't be ahead of that person, simply because the long run should win.<BR/><BR/>The bottom line here is that if you really want to see who had the best team and who managed the best, ROTO will decide that. The stats will not lie. H2H depends on how good your team is, but much more on your opponent each week and how streaky your team is v. how streaky your opponents are. The worst, of course, is having the best team then losing in the first round of the playoffs due to a late season injury or a hot streak by a sub-par team that barely made the playoffs. It actually rewards mediocrity.Dave Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08217474012235222566noreply@blogger.com