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  1. Hello everyone, this a reboot of the #reddit-baseball fantasy league after a year hiatus. There are some big changed for those who have returned, all for the better of course. This intro serves to have everyone on the same page, in terms of rules, and how the league setup dictates strategy. Ideally this makes sure no one is missing any key info that may impact their draft and/or fantasy season.
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  3. 1. League Setup
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  5. This league is designed for simplicity, fairness, and fun.
  6. We roster 2C, 1b, 2b, 3b, MI(middle infield), CI (corner infield), 5OF, 8 SP, 3RP with 3 Bench spots and one minor league only spot.
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  8. There is one minor league spot is part of the draft and your roster, this eliminates the race to pick up a hot midseason callup as he should already be on a team. You can swap out this minor leaguer for another anytime after the draft, but it cannot be filled by a major leaguer. If a minor leaguer you own gets called up, you can drop someone from your roster and replace it with the callup (and pick up another minor leaguer). If you don’t want to drop anyone on your roster you can drop the callup for a different minor leaguer directly. ESPN doesn’t have a minor league only roster spot, so you have curate this yourself, it’s not a big deal if you don’t catch this immediately, but try at notice it before the next matchup.
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  10. We have a strict 9 starts per matchup (prorated to a bit more in longer matchups). This is the foundation of the league as it makes streaming pitchers largely meaningless, unless you truly believe the pitcher stream will perform better than the pitcher you are benching. Either way, you have 9 starts, and your goal is to get the most pts out of those 9. Overall, our league will not put busy people at a meaningful disadvantage as long as they spend a few minutes every week, setting up their lineup for their upcoming matchup.
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  12. With our ratio of roster spots, Individual rostered starting pitchers and hitters score a very similar volume of points at each percentile of performance. The performance of the waiver wire is also very close, so a good hitter will be just as valuable over replacement as a good pitcher if they score the same amount of points. This means the only strategy of the league is simply “try and get the best players”, without any need to worry about prioritizing worse players over better ones because they play a certain position.
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  14. 2. Rules
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  16. There are only two rules that are not already intrinsic to ESPN’s system.
  17. We have a strict 9 start limit per matchup which is the foundation of the league, however you can go over this limit if you aren’t already over going into Sunday. We have 8 active starting pitcher roster spots, meaning that on a lot of weeks you just leave all 8 in to get to 9 starts. On certain weeks, more than 1 of your starters may have a 2-start week, meaning that you will go over if you do nothing. When you adjust your lineup once a week for each matchup, be sure to count to 9 starts, and bench however many starts necessary to remain within 9. If you exceed this limit, I’ll manually remove the points from your best scoring pitcher(s) on Sunday, so please check on your team at least once a week.
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  19. A second rule is that you must be able to fill a full active roster (it doesn’t matter if they are playing on any given day). Meaning that you cannot only have 4 OF or 7 SP on your team for example. The draft will force you to fill every active roster spot by default so that is not an issue. But you can manually drop players to a point where you don’t have 5 OF, 2C, etc. The scoring is designed so that you cannot outscore even your 2nd catcher with a bench bat at any other position or a bench reliever so there is no advantage in doing so, however it is against the spirit of the rules. You will only be hurting your team’s performance if you choose to do this so there aren't any real penalties, but try not to do it :).
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  21. 3. Scoring
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  23. For returning players, scoring for hitters have changed greatly, scoring for pitchers have very minor changes.
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  25. For both pitchers and hitters, in every single plate appearance, your players will either gain some points or lose some (excluding a hitter being hit by a pitch, or errors by a pitcher’s team).
  26. The best hitters produce as much as possible by getting on base and hitting for power, and on the same token produce the least number of outs. Conversely, the worst hitters produce the large proportion of outs without getting on base and don’t hit for power. wOBA correlates best with our scoring.
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  28. The only change for pitchers was how we score, wins, loses, quality, starts, saves and holds. In our last season, we had QS at 6 pts to rewards pitchers and not have them affected by thing out of their control. However the problem with that was that it made pitchers score a lot of points, and it made the best pitcher score A LOT more points over replacement than the best hitters. There was no way to adjust scoring for hitters to match the sort of scoring distribution starting pitchers had without an absurd setup so simply ditching the QS is much easier. Instead we will have wins and loses at 2 and -1 to ad a little intrigue within starts without unbalancing the whole system. Initially I had saves and holds at 3 and 2, I’ll explain later why it’s now 2 and 0. Besides, relievers are totally random anyways and don’t really reflect anything about the owner.
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  30. Pitchers are perhaps simpler than hitters, try and get guys that pitch a lot of innings per start as you are capped on starts in a matchup, while striking a lot of guys out without giving up hits/runs in those innings. How you predict that for an upcoming season? Your guess is as good as mine.
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  32. One important thing to note is that the projections overate pitchers slightly after you get past the top ones. Ie the 30th best pitcher by projections for this season outscores the 30th best pitcher in 2019 by 20-30 pts.
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  34. 4. Draft
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  36. I have the draft set at 4 EST sat march 21, please let us know if it doesn’t work.
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  38. Please not that the adp (average draft position) is not tailored for our scoring, so high SB guys will be over represented because of the large number of roto and categories leagues. Try to rank your draft based on projections around our scoring and your gut instead.
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  40. 5. In season
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  42. You can set your lineup in advance up to a week anytime, the easiest way to do it is to do it on Sunday. This process only involves counting to 9 starts and benching and extra ones, and swapping some bench bats in the active lineup on off days of other players.
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  44. You may need to check in during a matchup is a player gets injured or scratched, it’s not a big deal if you don’t catch it before games start that day, you can but I hope that our league is whimsically addictive enough that you can’t help but check out your team everyday when your taking a dump or something.
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  46. 6. Playoffs
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  48. 6 out 10 teams make the playoffs, top 2 teams have buys like the NFL. Finals will be the 2nd to last week of the season to mitigate mlb teams mailing it in for the last week.
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  50. 7. Things everyone should know
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  52. Some relievers are both SP and RP meaning that you can put a reliever your SP spot without taking away any playing time from your starting pitchers. This essentially gives your 4 relievers instead of 3. Because of this I lowered the points you get from saves and holds. In the draft it may be wise to prioritize a SP+RP reliever over bench bats as 100% of a mediocre reliever’s points is still more than 50-60% of a bench bat’s points (they can’t in the active roster all the time). There aren’t that many useful SP+RP pitchers out there, so if everyone nabs one, then we’re all on an equal playing field. Starting pitchers that are also are relievers don’t mean anything as we have a start limit anyways.
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  54. Other than SP+RP pitchers, your bench should be comprised of hitters, preference hitters than can fill in at multiple positions. Having starting pitchers on the bench is largely a waste as you can easily fill our 9 start limit with 8 SP practically every week.
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  56. If you draft too many players from one team, it may be difficult to fill all of their spots with your bench when that team is off, especially if you somehow draft 3OF from one team.
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  58. If draft a platoon bat, ie joc Pederson, they may score better on a per game basis since they will almost always have a platoon advantage but they will play/start fewer games than a full-time player. The trade off is that you have to pay a little more attention when setting your lineup for the week. For example, If he’s facing a lefty next Thursday, replace him with a hitter from your bench that will actually play.
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  60. All else being equal, if you had to choose between an OF vs another position the OF will be ever so slightly more valuable because the talent pool is slightly more spread out among OF. We roster 5 relative to 3 on a real mlb team. 5/3 is greater than 8/5 for pitchers, and 3/2 for MI/CI. That being said, how talent is distributed at a particular point in the draft can easily supersede outfielders being 5-10% more scarce than other position in a vacuum.
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  62. Note that pitchers are slightly less than 8 since you have to bench one occasionally to stay within 9 starts. Since catchers have far more off days than other hitters, 2 catchers that play 66-75% of their teams games keep the ratio the same (2*0.75/1).
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