2025 MoFo Fantasy Baseball: Draft/Signups

Looked up the proposed categories and looked at what the changes would be.
I’m fine with the changes

Well, that would probably make Kyle Schwarder a first round draft pick, and Luis Arraez completely worthless. If Yahoo will provide the slugging stat on our waiver wire, and everyone wants it then I wont stand in the way.

I’m down for consensus

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I'm fine with the changes as well

After having slept on it, I think its a good idea, and at least worth a try for a season. OBP and Avg do mostly go hand and hand. Ive never heard of a Slugging/OBP fantasy league before. IDK, we will see.

Is there any way we could have Wins and Quality Starts at the same time as point categories? @Yoda

I mean, it's possible but I'm not sure why we would want to. We moved to QS because they were better/fairer than wins. And like AVG/OBP they overlap enough that they should probably be either-or.

Also, that would mean adding a category, and there would be more pitching categories than hitting, which would skew tons of valuations.

Yeah I was thinking adding Wins with QS, and doing away with Holds since theyre mostly so effortless to get. QS and Wins are much harder to find. What do yall think?

P.S. not seeing Avg as a category now and SLG instead is weird lol

Strong oppose on my end, for several reasons. One I already mentioned: they're too similar to QS. They would "double up" frequently. Ideally, categories are reasonably distinct.

Wins are also heavily influenced by the surrounding team, rather than the individual player, which I think is dissonant with the nature of fantasy.

I do not agree that Holds are "effortless." But even if they were, there would still be a cost-benefit analysis on whether to target them with your roster spots (knowing full well most days you won't get one from a given reliever), which has a major strategic element.

Also, "harder to find" is not a good metric. Triples are hard to find but would be a terrible category.

Well thats fine. I was assuming there was a way to give a pitcher either a Win or a QS, but didnt know it would just end up giving both.

I'm not aware of one; maybe you're thinking of category combinations? They have options for combining categories, like SVHLD (which I think would be great if we can find a suitable pitching category to replace the merged one), but that's where both things count towards the total. Since it's possible to get a QS and a W in the same game you'd get a lot of +2s.

I'd oppose it for the other reasons listed even if it were an option, but that's just my opinion.

Last year, Kyle Schwarber was a much more valuable hitter than Luis Arraez. It's actually only with the status quo of isolating BA specifically that Arraez seems like a top hitter in the league, which he is not

I am with Yoda here, and am against doing both Wins and QSs. QSs can be frustrating, especially when your starter gets pulled after 5.2, but they feel less flukey than doing Wins. With QSs, you mostly just have to root for your guy pitching well, but with Wins, you have to root for the pitcher's offense to score runs and all kinds of other contrivances.

I would separately be okay with combining SVs and HDs into one category, but that does create a problem of which other pitching stat to add. I just quickly scanned the list of options and I'm not sure what would even make sense .

Its no biggie. Getting used to Slugging instead of Average will be enough for everyone to get used too.

It shouldn't change too much, since SLG correlates moderately with other categories like HR and RBI.

Less than 2 weeks from the draft and Ive been mocking with vigor. Hopefuly Im not wasting my time. Doesnt help when the mocks lack 3 categories our league uses.

Draft is a little over a week away! I'll ping everyone next week/just before.

Really looking forward to this. Been doing a bunch of mocks. More for fun since I know any strategy developed from it will be laughable afterwards. Ill be working but drafting from my phone when able.

So. Random thought for the day. Is Salvador Perez baseball version of Derrick Henry? Theyve been great for the longest amount of time but never the greatest.

Moving to slugging arguably puts Judge in contention for 1st overall in our league, yea?

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I mean I was going to say 5th, but whatever