Scoring settings

[Admin]

Overview and comparison of settings between ESPN and Fantrax. Some of the scoring settings can be found in the Rules. Others had to be decided when setting up the scoring sites. (ESPN or Fantrax, to be determined by Monday.) Any of the following can be discussed and re-evaluated.

- Schedule: On either site, the first period and All-Star week may be combined to ensure that we won't have shortened matchups.

- Roster size: This has very little effect, as Proboards will host the true roster pages. ESPN's player limit is 40 per team. Fantrax is set to 333.

- Positional eligibility: ESPN doesn't provide any option to change this - 20 games from the previous season, 10 games in the current season permits eligibility at any position. Fantrax is currently set for - 10 games in the previous season, 10 games in the current season permits eligibility for hitters. 5 games in the previous season, 5 games in the current season permits eligibility for pitchers. (This is something that could be up for review, given that we play with differentiated outfield roster slots. LF,CF,RF.)


- Min./Max. for ratio categories: ESPN is set at 10 IP minimum per matchup in order to qualify for ERA and WHIP. Fantrax is set at 20 ABs required to qualify for Batting Average, 10 IP for ERA and WHIP.

- Fantrax only: Players will always accumulate stats in all scoring category groups. (Pitchers' batting stats will be counted. Batters' pitching stats will be counted.)

- Lineup changes: ESPN and Fantrax both allow lineup changes daily up until 5 minutes before each player's gametime.

- Adding and dropping players: ESPN and Fantrax both are set to allow individual owners to make their own roster changes. (Just a reminder as always, rosters on the scoring site must match the Proboards team roster page.) Trades will be processed by adding and dropping the players involved only after receiving a 3rd approval from the Trade Committee.



If there's anything that could, or should, be changed, feel free to discuss it here. Thanks.

[gepetto69 (Stuart, LAD)]

I like the info and options that are provided above. Personally I like having a large roster because I need one for my type of strategy. I make moves daily, even up to 5 minutes before first pitch, so having that extra flexibility is a benefit. As for scoring, min/max IP or AB, or games played these ideas are basics for every league; I have no opinion on these.

[bryanm1982 (Bryan, WAS)]

Thanks for the list of different options. It sounds like Fantrax is more flexible for us.

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Regarding pitchers' batting stats - I don't know how Adam plans to address this, but I'm thinking that allowing this setting might be a disadvantage for NL teams?

Say two teams faceoff, each with purely homegrown pitching staffs. If one is an NL team they'll get something like a 0-10 hitting performance from their hitting pitchers, whilst the AL team will have nothing.
That's a bit of a handicap on the NL team batting average, with little upside. For every Greinke or Bumgarner there's ten Lesters...

[notoriousgman (Gman, NYM)]

Of the five hitting categories, only 1 is a ratio, there's negatively impacted by your 0-10 example...R, HR, RBI can only have net gains by adding pitching stats... Won't even count SB... Therefore, my thought is native NL teams would be positively impacted if this were the case... Just my two cents