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I know it's early, but let's avoid making changes after the season has started this time. 
Here are my suggestions:
Lot's of categories with more on offense. The more the merrier even if some are redundant.
Offense
At Bats (not that important)
Hits
Runs
Doubles
Homers
RBI
Stolen Bases
Total bases
Avg
On base percentage (reward sluggers who walk alot)
Slugging percentage
OPS? Combined On base and slugging?
If AB's are dropped, IP's could be dropped to maintain more offensive categories.
Pitching
Innings pitched
wins
losses
saves
ERA
strike outs
walks
hits given up
homers given up
K's/9 innings
K's to walks ratio
That's 12 offense and 11 pitching.
Last time we had to add a minimum number of IP's every week after the season started to prevent people from starting only top closers and maybe a top starter. Is there a way we can avoid doing that this time? If not, that's not a big problem. I think it was a good solution to a sticky problem that really could have ruined the league as everyone dropped many starters and focused on closers and middle relievers.
Last year I thought weekly roster changes would detract from the game play since losing a player to injury early in the week could cost someone a week's matchup but it turned out to be fairly decent. Did anyone lose a week due to injury? Imran opposed daily roster changes because of problems inherent to that option including the participants inability to manage their teams on a daily basis and while I still would like to try daily roster changes, weekly changes didn't cause the problem I predicted. Of course, at the time I thought the ranks were strictly determined by the weekly win-loss record when in fact it was based on categories, i.e., if you went 7-8 for the week, you lost the week but you still got credit for 7 categories with a debit of 8 (am I remembering that right?)
I'm curious how the FFZ league dealt with the problems of daily roster changes. I mean, if you can pick up and drop second tier pitchers and plug them in on a daily basis, you can obviously run up some of the categories like K's, wins, saves, and Innings pitched. But such a strategy can also hurt since lesser pitchers will detract from categories like K/BB, K/9 inn, ERA, losses, and hits and homers given up if we have those categories. And then you could do that with hitters too since teams average about 6 games a week you could plug in a bunch of guys playing on the off days of your other players. Smaller rosters would seem to penalize such a strategy as people might have to drop good players to make room for the daily plug in players.
I think last year was a very good first effort even if the start was a bit rough because of the settings change to prevent the sneakier managers from subverting the concept of actually having pitchers start games and throw more than 1 inning.
But I'm still concerned with the injury problem ala weekly roster changes even though that didn't seem to make or break anyone's season last year. At this point I'm leaning toward weekly roster changes over daily because I can see some problems with that system too. FFZ vets can chime in to explain if and how these problems were handled...
Here are my suggestions:Lot's of categories with more on offense. The more the merrier even if some are redundant.
Offense
At Bats (not that important)
Hits
Runs
Doubles
Homers
RBI
Stolen Bases
Total bases
Avg
On base percentage (reward sluggers who walk alot)
Slugging percentage
OPS? Combined On base and slugging?
If AB's are dropped, IP's could be dropped to maintain more offensive categories.
Pitching
Innings pitched
wins
losses
saves
ERA
strike outs
walks
hits given up
homers given up
K's/9 innings
K's to walks ratio
That's 12 offense and 11 pitching.
Last time we had to add a minimum number of IP's every week after the season started to prevent people from starting only top closers and maybe a top starter. Is there a way we can avoid doing that this time? If not, that's not a big problem. I think it was a good solution to a sticky problem that really could have ruined the league as everyone dropped many starters and focused on closers and middle relievers.
Last year I thought weekly roster changes would detract from the game play since losing a player to injury early in the week could cost someone a week's matchup but it turned out to be fairly decent. Did anyone lose a week due to injury? Imran opposed daily roster changes because of problems inherent to that option including the participants inability to manage their teams on a daily basis and while I still would like to try daily roster changes, weekly changes didn't cause the problem I predicted. Of course, at the time I thought the ranks were strictly determined by the weekly win-loss record when in fact it was based on categories, i.e., if you went 7-8 for the week, you lost the week but you still got credit for 7 categories with a debit of 8 (am I remembering that right?)
I'm curious how the FFZ league dealt with the problems of daily roster changes. I mean, if you can pick up and drop second tier pitchers and plug them in on a daily basis, you can obviously run up some of the categories like K's, wins, saves, and Innings pitched. But such a strategy can also hurt since lesser pitchers will detract from categories like K/BB, K/9 inn, ERA, losses, and hits and homers given up if we have those categories. And then you could do that with hitters too since teams average about 6 games a week you could plug in a bunch of guys playing on the off days of your other players. Smaller rosters would seem to penalize such a strategy as people might have to drop good players to make room for the daily plug in players.
I think last year was a very good first effort even if the start was a bit rough because of the settings change to prevent the sneakier managers from subverting the concept of actually having pitchers start games and throw more than 1 inning.
But I'm still concerned with the injury problem ala weekly roster changes even though that didn't seem to make or break anyone's season last year. At this point I'm leaning toward weekly roster changes over daily because I can see some problems with that system too. FFZ vets can chime in to explain if and how these problems were handled...
But as long as we agree to it BEFORE the season starts, I don't see the problem.
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It's such a bull**** stat
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