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Some fun numbers now that the regular season totals have been tallied coming right up in the next post. 
But first: the Roto-style standings I've been babbling about all year. A quick update on those.
As a reminder, Roto standings take the raw totals for each team (IE: 196 homers for the season, a team ERA of 3.55, etc) and assign each team a rank relative to all the other teams. Since we have 14 teams, first place in a category gets you 14 points, second gets you 13, and so on. Whoever has the most total points wins.
This is generally fairer, because it removes the random luck of having good weeks at bad times, or vice-versa, and ensures that every stat counts equally regardless of whether or not it comes in a week when you happen to really need it or not. In other words, it doesn't penalize you for happening to lose in HRs 13 to 12, and it doesn't discard the value of all the extra Stolen Bases if you win that category 9 to 1. Here's what the Roto standings would have looked like:
There are tradeoffs in going with this format, of course. There is less week-to-week drama, but there's more of a horse race feel, it better rewards people who manage well throughout the entire season, and whatever it loses in playoff drama it makes up in late-season drama, because it actually makes some pretty wild deals downright smart if you can correctly calculate which rankings of yours are vulnerable and which can improve. For example, if you have a huge lead in homers and narrowly trail several teams in Saves, it might make perfect sense to trade Albert Pujols for Heath Bell with a month to go.
If anyone is intrigued by this I have a spreadsheet I've been keeping since week 8 that has all the raw totals and rankings after each week broken down for all 10 specific categories, broken down into just Hitting and Pitching, and of course, added up into one total. Pretty interesting stuff, and useful for figuring out which categories you're actually weak or strong in, because the Wins and Losses don't always tell the whole story. For example, Spud was last in ERA, but somehow managed to go 10-12 in the category, anyway.
Anyway, thought you guys might find this interesting. I still think this is something it might be really fun and interesting to do next year. This is how fantasy baseball was originally played, and I'm pretty sure the head-to-head thing was probably devised or popularized as a way to make it more similar to fantasy football. But I think Rotisserie dovetails better with the natural differences between the two.
But first: the Roto-style standings I've been babbling about all year. A quick update on those.As a reminder, Roto standings take the raw totals for each team (IE: 196 homers for the season, a team ERA of 3.55, etc) and assign each team a rank relative to all the other teams. Since we have 14 teams, first place in a category gets you 14 points, second gets you 13, and so on. Whoever has the most total points wins.
This is generally fairer, because it removes the random luck of having good weeks at bad times, or vice-versa, and ensures that every stat counts equally regardless of whether or not it comes in a week when you happen to really need it or not. In other words, it doesn't penalize you for happening to lose in HRs 13 to 12, and it doesn't discard the value of all the extra Stolen Bases if you win that category 9 to 1. Here's what the Roto standings would have looked like:
- Springfield Isotopes, 113
- The Naturals, 104
- I Like Turtles!, 89
- The 'Roid Ragers III, 89
- Team Hannahmals, 86
- The Clueless Clowns, 77
- Dodgers, 71
- Wright Turn Clyde, 69
- Zeppelins, 62
- Ming's Mongrels, 57
- Dynamic Dynamite, 57
- Spud's Fry Guys, 57
- Suicide Squeeze, 56
- Eastbound Charros, 50
There are tradeoffs in going with this format, of course. There is less week-to-week drama, but there's more of a horse race feel, it better rewards people who manage well throughout the entire season, and whatever it loses in playoff drama it makes up in late-season drama, because it actually makes some pretty wild deals downright smart if you can correctly calculate which rankings of yours are vulnerable and which can improve. For example, if you have a huge lead in homers and narrowly trail several teams in Saves, it might make perfect sense to trade Albert Pujols for Heath Bell with a month to go.
If anyone is intrigued by this I have a spreadsheet I've been keeping since week 8 that has all the raw totals and rankings after each week broken down for all 10 specific categories, broken down into just Hitting and Pitching, and of course, added up into one total. Pretty interesting stuff, and useful for figuring out which categories you're actually weak or strong in, because the Wins and Losses don't always tell the whole story. For example, Spud was last in ERA, but somehow managed to go 10-12 in the category, anyway.
Anyway, thought you guys might find this interesting. I still think this is something it might be really fun and interesting to do next year. This is how fantasy baseball was originally played, and I'm pretty sure the head-to-head thing was probably devised or popularized as a way to make it more similar to fantasy football. But I think Rotisserie dovetails better with the natural differences between the two.
