Am I right to go without a closer for this team?

[Brian]

Ok, these is kind of a weird league. It is with a bunch of people that i know from a different message board. I'm not really taking it to seriously. Well a bunch of people wanted in and the guy let 18 people in. So it's 18 teams and with the serpentine draft and me having the first spot so after I take Pujols 34 people get taken then i get 2 picks, then 34 etc. So, I ended up never picking anybody that's a closer.

 

Then I noticed the guy has a ton of scoring categories -

GS, IP, W, CG, SHO, SV, H, ER, HR, BB, K, TB, ERA, WHIP, K/BB

 

with spots for 3 SP, 2RP, 2P

 

So instead of closers I have 2 starters with RP eligibility (Wainwright & Nolasco).

 

So am I wrong, or shouldn't my plan work out alright? I forsake Saves, but Ideally I should have no problem always getting GS and IP, with a better shot at getting points for W, CG and SHO.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Is it a head to head league? If so, makes sense to me.

[Brian]

Yeah

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I'd definitely punt saves. If you can steal a guy who'll get some saves off the waiver wire do that. If not, you're plan looks good considering those categories.

[NCCubFan]

I'd definitely punt saves.

Devin Hester just returned that punt for a touchdown. :lol:

[jyoung55]

Is it me or are those scoring criteria very heavily weighted in favor of starting pitchers to the point where they should almost be your first five picks or so?

[texascub]

Is it me or are those scoring criteria very heavily weighted in favor of starting pitchers to the point where they should almost be your first five picks or so?

 

That is the way it looks to me. The only category where a RP is of use is for saves (unless H means holds), so it would be best to surrender there and go for the bigger piece of the pie IMO.