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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

Ahiacitian
heisman said:
What if we had no drop list rules? Chasing those K’s might also ruin your ERA and WHIP. The current “problem” as I see it, is that a low leverage middle reliever is more valuable than a starting pitcher, which is like the Madden 90’s glitch where you could recover the onside kick on every onside kick.
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True, but if your ratios are already ruined, you shouldn’t be rewarded by running more mediocrity out there. If you want to eliminate middle relief value, you need to eliminate the holds category. But you can’t eliminate a pitching category without also eliminating a hitting category. So you might then need to change holds to a different pitching category if it is truly a problem.
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

heisman
Ahiacitian said:
Not by everyone, and it would be much worse if K/9 is changed to K’s! You can currently chase wins, saves, and holds because they are accumulator stats, but you aren’t guaranteed any of these stats when you are playing a starting pitcher or picking up a reliever to play. The only stat that truly rewards streaming is K’s because streaming starters guarantees increased K’s. However, K/9 rewards quality pitchers over quantity along with ERA and WHIP. For me personally, I see it as a quality vs quantity thing, and consider fantasy baseball the ultimate game of strategy that shouldn’t reward stacking mediocre starters for stat accumulation.

I actually think the relatively small roster sizes and limited number of bench slots also contributes to streaming pitching because there always pitching options on the waiver wire to pick up.
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What if we had no drop list rules? Chasing those K’s might also ruin your ERA and WHIP. The current “problem” as I see it, is that a low leverage middle reliever is more valuable than a starting pitcher, which is like the Madden 90’s glitch where you could recover the onside kick on every onside kick.
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BP Fantasy Baseball est. 2008 (Current Champion = Ahiacitian)

Ahiacitian
heisman said:
Maybe I’m not understanding, but pitchers are streamed ad nauseam in this league.
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Not by everyone, and it would be much worse if K/9 is changed to K’s! You can currently chase wins, saves, and holds because they are accumulator stats, but you aren’t guaranteed any of these stats when you are playing a starting pitcher or picking up a reliever to play. The only stat that truly rewards streaming is K’s because streaming starters guarantees increased K’s. However, K/9 rewards quality pitchers over quantity along with ERA and WHIP. For me personally, I see it as a quality vs quantity thing, and consider fantasy baseball the ultimate game of strategy that shouldn’t reward stacking mediocre starters for stat accumulation.

I actually think the relatively small roster sizes and limited number of bench slots also contributes to streaming pitching because there always pitching options on the waiver wire to pick up.
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2026 Winter Olympics (Milan - Cortina, Feb 6-20)

Fungo Squiggly
Dropping $150k (almost double the US median household income) to pay for a party for a bunch of millionaires certainly is a choice.

Not that it’s a bad thing to do, but I’m going to hold my vote on “philanthropist of the year” for someone supporting a slightly more worthwhile cause. :lol:
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2025-2026 Ohio State Men's Basketball

DZ83CK
There's something psychologically about this team, if they struggle offensively, they get into a tailspin and can't recover. If they can't score 72 points, they basically always lose. They have only won once this season while scoring less than 72, the fourth game of the season vs. ND. In their 11 losses, there were only 3 games they scored 72.
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Ohio State @ Iowa, Wednesday Feb. 25, 9pm EST, BTN

DZ83CK
buckeyemania11 said:
He's so bad on defense that the defense that had been improving immediately regressed when he got back on the floor.
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One of the biggest things Iowa succeeded with today was getting Folgueiras isolated in the paint against smaller defenders. This underscores why ideally you want to have guys who can play interchangeably on defense as much as possible.
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