Jan 13 2021 12:05am
ROTISSERIE: Hitting ‘em where they ain’t, pt 1: A Contrarian roster construction strategy
Jan 13 2021
Many roster construction strategies advocate building a balanced roster (pitching and hitting). There are exceptions (punting saves or SBs, for example), but these strategies have extreme risk embedded in them. If you get one point (last place) in a category, you have very little wiggle room in other categories. An injury or two to key players can sink your season.
A contrarian roster construction strategy is to build a roster focused on either hitting or pitching without punting any categories. In 2020, I experimented using two 12-team Draft Champion NFBC teams. This format is a 50-round draft-and-hold league using standard 5x5 rotisserie scoring. There are the standard 23 active roster slots (14 hitters and 9 pitchers) and no free...
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