Daily vs Weekly lineup changes

[goonys evil twin]

Dang. So I'm the only one that hasn't voted and it sits at 4-4-3.

 

We've heard some passionate speaking on behalf of daily. Anyone want to speak as strongly in favor of weekly?

 

I'll give it a go.

 

Daily? Who the hell needs to make daily changes to their lineups? I'll tell you who, incompetent fantasty managers that can't think in advance, that's who. Weekly is where it's at. The true skills of fantasy sports management is in the longterm projections of........

 

 

Sorry, that's all I got.

[stitchface]

Dang. So I'm the only one that hasn't voted and it sits at 4-4-3.

 

We've heard some passionate speaking on behalf of daily. Anyone want to speak as strongly in favor of weekly?

 

I'll give it a go.

 

Daily? Who the hell needs to make daily changes to their lineups? I'll tell you who, incompetent fantasty managers that can't think in advance, that's who. Weekly is where it's at. The true skills of fantasy sports management is in the longterm projections of........

 

 

Sorry, that's all I got.

 

Seriously, why should you be locked in to your lineup for a week? Some of us have lives on the weekend and don't have time to change lineups on Sunday. Baseball changes daily and so should our lineups . . .

 

All that being said, it really doesn't matter because I am going to kick all you butts either way!

[Banedon]

If only we could get Dusty to commit to a lineup for a full week....

[Guest]

How about this:

 

Waivers only run once a week, anyway, so it's not like people will be able to grab pitchers on a daily basis and stick them into the lineup. If a manager chooses a strategy of putting six SP's on his reserve list and swapping them in and out every week, then bully for him. But if one of his position players gets hurt and he has to scour the waiver wires to find a replacement, he's going to be hosed.

 

And if this is supposed to be a "Premier" league, why not reward the managers who are willing to put in the time and effort to see if their catcher is going to get an offday so they can put in their #2? Or notice that a reliever has gone two straight and won't play on day 3? Shouldn't there be an opportunity for a superior manager to make a difference as opposed to just having the GM skills at the beginning of the year during the draft? And how about giving the managers who couldn't make the draft at the beginning of the year a chance to make up the difference through hard work?

 

If someone wants to set their lineup and forget it, that's their choice and they can do that. But why not reward the people who are willing to put in the extra time?

 

 

 

 

 

---- edit. Oops. Wrong argument.

[Guest]

Okay, how about this:

 

As a manager, all you can ask for is a level playing field. Not everyone has time or access on a daily basis to see how many games their catcher or relief pitchers have gone in a row. Heck, I travel darned near every week and there's at least two nights a week when I'm flying that I don't have the opportunity to check on things. I also often have to work until ungodly hours at the customer site where it wouldn't look very good to be setting the old fantasy baseball lineup. And some hotels have crappy internet access that makes it hard to do it from there. If my opponent can make changes every day and I can't, it doesn't mean he's a better manager or more devoted, it just means that I have crappy circumstances for fantasy baseball at the moment! Should my opponent get an advantage just because of that?

 

Level playing field is all I'm asking. I can find the time sometime during the week to set the lineup for the following week. Is this fantasy baseball or a test of our micromanaging skills?

[Vinestal]

I voted for daily/weekly but Im kinda wishing I had voted daily, I think when its all said and done people are not going to load up on crap pitchers and all that, its more likely to hurt them than help them anyway. So if you can move my voted to daily. Im for Freedom man! Viva la revalution!

[stitchface]

Tim,

When waivers run isn't relevant unless its a pitcher that was dropped the previous week.

[Guest]

Tim,

When waivers run isn't relevant unless its a pitcher that was dropped the previous week.

True, but that still puts limits on how many pitchers can be added/dropped during any given period. If in period 1, people essentially grabbed every MLB pitcher for the day they pitch and then drop them afterwards for another pitcher, in week 2 all those guys would be on waivers and unavailable.

 

Waivers make the strategy non-repeatable.

[Guest]

Ah, heck.

 

Let's try out the daily lineup changes (starting in period 2) and try that out for a couple weeks. If people come up with any objections, post 'em here.

[stitchface]

True, but you are picking up some pretty crappy pitchers if you do that anyway.

[goonys evil twin]

Is Rusch available?

[Guest]

True, but you are picking up some pretty crappy pitchers if you do that anyway.

If I can get 20 starts from pitchers that range from my keepers to Shawn Estes, I'm probably going to outproduce what I could do with just 7-8 starts from my keepers. No guarantees that some of the crappy pitchers won't score negative, but it would be tough for them to do so as an aggregate with this scoring system.

[Mark_R]

Can't we make the FA period longer than immediately in those instances? for example, if you pick up a player, he cannot be active on your roster until 2 days down the road

 

Pick up player x Sunday, the earliest he can be used is Wednesday.

[stitchface]

Can't we make the FA period longer than immediately in those instances? for example, if you pick up a player, he cannot be active on your roster until 2 days down the road

 

Pick up player x Sunday, the earliest he can be used is Wednesday.

 

or not available until the next period. I don't think the site has that option yet.

[roadster]

Can't we make the FA period longer than immediately in those instances? for example, if you pick up a player, he cannot be active on your roster until 2 days down the road

 

Pick up player x Sunday, the earliest he can be used is Wednesday.

 

or not available until the next period. I don't think the site has that option yet.

 

How about maximum number of innings per period or for the year?

[Mark_R]

I'd like to say, I hate weekly changes. I've missed out on a lot of points for Chris Shelton and it irritates me that i couldn't get him in there while he was hot.

[Guest]

Can't we make the FA period longer than immediately in those instances? for example, if you pick up a player, he cannot be active on your roster until 2 days down the road

 

Pick up player x Sunday, the earliest he can be used is Wednesday.

 

or not available until the next period. I don't think the site has that option yet.

 

How about maximum number of innings per period or for the year?

That's how the only other leagues I've been in have worked, though I'd rather the cap be on games started instead of innings pitched. (Otherwise it could be unfair to people with good starters who go deep into games.) Once your starters have passed a certain number of GS (say 175 or so, or 35 per active SP slot) you could no longer gain points from them. It seemed to work reasonably well; people could tweak their roster whenver/however they liked, but it prevented people from loading up their rosters with 10 SP and getting 350 GS by manipulating their roster to take advantage of pitching rotations.

 

Not sure if it would work for this league, though, because the stat we'd need to track would be GS by active pitchers. (GS while they were in your reserve stash shouldn't count against you.)