Fantasy Baseball Scoring Styles and how our Fantasy Baseball Draft Tool is utilized
What is a Points League?
A
points based scoring league is a type of
fantasy baseball league in which actual stats are not used but rather a
value given to the stats. For example, your league may give 5 points
for a home run, 1 point for a stolen base and 10 points for a win.
Standings are based
simply on an accumulation of points covering all statistical
categories. Our fantasy baseball draft tool handles this as described
What is a Rotisserie (Roto) league?.
A
fantasy baseball rotisserie scoring league applies a value to a team's
rank within a statistical category. For example, if your team leads
your league in wins and there are 12 teams overall, you would receive
12 points in that category. If your teams has the fewest wins, you
would receive 1 point in that category and so on. Standings are based
on an accumulation of points covering all eligible categories.
Our fantasy baseball draft tool handles this as described, except for percentage categories (discussed below in the Further Details section).A typical
5x5 Roto league would include the following categories:
Hitters - Batting Average, Runs, Home Runs, RBIs, and Stolen Bases
Pitchers - Wins, Saves, Strikeouts, ERA, and WHIP
A typical
4x4 Roto league would include the following categories:
Hitters - Batting Average, Home Runs, RBIs, and Stolen Bases
Pitchers - Wins, Saves, ERA, and WHIP
What is a Head-to-Head League?Head-to-head
is a method of fantasy baseball in which teams compete against each
other on a weekly basis. These leagues may use either a points based
scoring or Roto. In a points based H2H, each week's winner is
determined solely by who accumulates the most fantasy points during the
week. In a Roto H2H, at the end of the playing week, each of the
relevant categories is awarded to one of the teams with ties recorded
as ties. For example, if your team wins HR, R, RBI, W, K and ERA and
loses AVG, WHIP and SB while tying in SVs, your record is 6-3-1 for the
week. Standings are based on an accumulation of the weekly records. Since H2H combines both Points and/or Roto scoring styles, we've got you covered.
Further DetailsSince
our fantasy baseball draft tool projections are based off of points,
the question arises, how does our software account for rotisserie
scoring leagues? In a nutshell, you would apply point values to all
applicable scoring categories that pertain to your league settings
while applying a zero (0) to all other statistical scoring categories.
Let's take the typical 5x5 Roto league, where you can easily assign a point value to:
Runs
Home Runs
RBIs
Stolen Bases
But Batting Average is not so straight forward since it is a percentage. You cannot assign a value to a percentage, instead
assign a point value to the pieces that make up the percentage.
The formula for Batting Average is
Hits / At Bats
Solution: Assign point values to all Hits
categories (Singles, Doubles, Triples & Home Runs)
Note: At Bats are part of our projections and does not have a point value
The formula for On Base Percentage is
(Hits + Walks) / (At Bats + Walks)
Solution: Assign point values to Walks and all Hits
categories (Singles, Doubles, Triples & Home Runs)
The formula for Slugging Percentage is
(Singles * 1) + (Doubles * 2) + (Triples * 3) + (Home Runs * 4) / At Bats
Solution: Assign point values to all Hits
categories (Singles, Doubles, Triples & Home Runs)
Note: At Bats are part of our projections and does not have a point value
The formula for ERA (Earned Run Average) is
(Earned Runs * 9) / Innings Pitched
Solution: Assign point values to Earned Runs & Innings Pitched
The formula for WHIP is
(Walks + Hits) / Innings Pitched
Solution: Assign point values to Walks, Hits Allowed & Innings Pitched