HEAD-TO-HEAD: Grading on a Curve—Batters
Feb 17 2009
The main difference between head-to-head (H2H) leagues and rotisserie leagues is that each scoring period in an H2H league is practically a season into itself. While rotisserie owners can take a longer view of the season in their quest to amass statistics and march up the standings, H2H owners must accumulate more statistics than their opponents in a shorter scoring period. That means H2H owners must build their rosters to face opponents whose rosters may have very different strengths and weaknesses than their own.
One great tool H2H owners can use when building their teams is batter consistency, a topic on which Dylan Hedges has written extensively on this site. Critics of this tool have argued that all batter consistency tells...
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