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Does anyone in Yahoo fantasy baseball have a problem with teams picking up numerous free agent pitchers?
Does anyone in Yahoo fantasy baseball (standard 5x5 mixed, weekly head to head, with daily roster moves) have a problem with teams picking up numerous free agent pitchers to load up on W and K’s?
When a team gets far behind ERA and WHIP, then will just drop and pick up any Starting Pitcher on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is worse in the last round of the playoffs when teams will drop even premier SPs once they pitched there last start of the year.
We currently have an arbitrary maximum 3 free agent pick ups per week, but I am looking for other ideas. Rationale: it forces you to pick your pitching staff early in the process rather than sandbag with a bunch of hacks with 3 days to go (from FA and Waiver lists)….Fantasy sports is about picking your team and strategizing before play happens this rewards the team with the better “starting” pitching staff.
Any other solutions?
1 Answer
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
To be honest head-to-head kills the whole point of pitchers in fantasy baseball all together... why draft a Johan Santana who on many weeks throughout the season will get one measly start??? His numbers alone in one start will not be good enough to win you any categories in a head to head league for that week... especially when i've seen as many as 7 positions for starting pitchers... on the other hand - if a hitter gets hot: say Jose Reyes or Ryan Howard - they can win you the steals category or HR and RBIs on some insane weeks that they have...
So overall i say stay away from head to head leagues.... do roto leagues instead!!!
