Fantasy Baseball n00b

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

Hard to give much advice or rate your team without knowing how it's scored, however I have the same starting spots/roster size/teams playing.

One thing I'd say is: Don't make any rash decisions and drop a highly rated player because he's struggling early.

I generally load up on pitching rather than hitting because you can rotate pitchers just as they do in real life. It also makes for more of a "set it and forget it," since you only need to set your pitchers every 3 days of so, if that's what you prefer.

With extra batters you simply don't have spots for them every day. Being able to pick match-ups day-to-day with your batters is nice but can really sting when you make the wrong decision.

For example, just my opinion but: I would move Arencibia for a SP or closer. Wieters is the better hitter period and play 139 games last year. Sure Arencibia can fill in when he's starting and Wieters is off(which can be tricky with game start times), or he can go utility occasionally, but that spot could be used to earn you pitching stats whether it be 1-2 starts per weeks or saves. In the end I'll take the 20-30 pitching appearances over Arencibia's 20-30 games at bat.

Catcher is kind of like TE in football to me. The elite ones are great to have, but you can live without one, and having two average ones will not make it an elite position for you.

Also, max waiver/FA moves is a big deal. Last year I was in a league with no max, so I made 100+ moves. Find a good pitching match-up, and swoop 'em, or grab a hot bat for a monday/thursday and see how it goes. This year my league is 56 max, meaning my moves have to really count.

Anyways, this is my 3rd year of Fantasy Baseball and LOVE IT!!!

Thanks for the feedback.

The league is head-to-head with the following scoring categories:
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Batting Average (AVG)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)

Max. acquisitions per week are 6.

I chose to devalue starting pitching. Your SP that you draft early may only pitch once per week and if he has a bad outing you're ****ed with so much invested in that guy.

Instead I chose to draft better relief guys later in the draft who will get me strikeouts and saves. I focused on grabbing better batters. I figure if I can win each week in strikeouts and saves then my batters will make up the difference in sacrificing ERA/wins/WHIP from quality starters on other teams.