How does Yahoo Fantasy Baseball add points? Any tricks?

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There are two kinds of fantasy baseball leagues. Some leagues are head-to-head leagues. How those leagues score is this: Each week, you are matched up against another owner.At the beginning of the week, you set your team’s line up for the week.

You compete directly against that other owner in whatever categories your league uses (home runs, rbis, runs scored, wins, era, saves, etc. ) At the end of the week, whichever owner has won the most categories gets a win for the week. The other guy gets a loss. The last few weeks of the regular season are generally used to hold playoffs for team in head-to-head leagues.

Based on other questions you’ve asked, you are clearly in a Rotisserie (or roto) league.(Rotisserie leagues are named after the Rotisserie Bar in NYC where a few baseball fans first got together years ago and dreamed up this game). Scoring in a roto league works like this: Your league establishes the categories that are used in scoring. A typical league is called a 5X5 league, and has five offensive categories (usually runs scored, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases, and batting average) and five pitching categories (such as wins, saves, strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP).

WHIP is the average number of walks plus hits given up per inning of work). The number of points available in each category is determined by the number of teams in your league. A typical league might have 12 teams.

In that case, the team with the most home runs would earn 12 points, the team with the second most homers would earn 11 points, and so on down to the team with the fewest homers, who would earn a single point. All categories earn points similarly, so a perfect score in your league would be earned by leading every category. Most leagues will update scoring every day, so in the early part of a season, team scores will often fluctuate dramatically from day to day.

Over time, some teams establish a clear lead in some categories and score will stabilize somewhat. Ratios categories like batting avg, ERA, and WHIP will also fluctuate more early in the year than they will later, of course. Strategy tips: In general, you want to try to use up all available games.

If you check your league defaults, you will probably find that you have 162 games at each position (more for OF and Utility, since there are two or three of those positions) and also an innings limit for pitchers, often in the 1250-1500 range. You won’t want to end the season not having used, say 25 games at 1B or 50 games by outfielders. Each game you don’t play is missed opportunity to score a couple more runs, steal another base, or hit another homer.

You’d hate to lose a category by a single home run and realize you could have played another dozen games at some position. Same for pitchers: you generally want to use up all the innings you have available. Late in the season, keep an eye on how the different categories start to space themselves out.

Remember that you get a point for beating someone in a category, whether you beat them by a single stolen base or twenty. If you establish a commanding lead in a particular category, there’s no advantage to piling on -- you won’t earn additional points for wining a category by a wide margin. Which leads to a strategy not everyone agrees with... Say you lead stolen bases by a comfortable margin.

But you’re in a close race with another owner (let’s call him Owner B) in the overall race. You might try to trade a good stolen base player to another owner (Owner C) who has the chance to pass Owner B in stolen bases. It will take away a point from Owner B in the overall race, but it won’t you.

Some people argue that you shouldn’t be able to make a trade that appears to make your team weaker. But I’d argue that the point of the game is not to win each and every category, but to win the overall race. There are more tips I’d be happy to discuss on the DB, but that’s plenty to digest for now...

This way. RotoYou try to get better stats than all the other teams over the season. Head-to-HeadYou try to get better stats than your opponent for that week.

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