Best Ball Leagues (1 Viewer)

[Daywalker]

Anyone have experience playing in a best ball league?

Head to head each week. I'm thinking of having starting requirements of:

1 qb

2 rb

3 wr

1 te

1 pk

1 def.

Maybe have a roster size of 18. Any combination you want. Nine bench wr's if you wanted. In this type of scenerio the top three scroes out of your 12 total wr's would play.

Wanted to mix it up this year with my league. I like the added entertainment benefit of having all 18 players active. Plus fantasy is frustrating enough and this may take a bit away.

Sure the strategy of who to start is gone but is it really that significant? Most league I've played in I can pretty much make out everyone's starting lineup the night before.

Think their is much more strategy to be had in roster management in a best-ball type format. Roster 3 qb's? 3 Defenses? Stack RB or WR's depending on your early picks.

Pro's and Con's of this format?

 

[Daywalker]

 

[two_dollars]

It definitely opens up more strategies. More high risk high reward players will go. I've never tried one but it has intrigued me.

 

[Daywalker]

It definitely opens up more strategies. More high risk high reward players will go. I've never tried one but it has intrigued me.

Since i normally only play one league I like how it will open up more players/games to have a stake in. Plus I think it will force my leaguemates to be more active. No longer just start your studs and only make a move when a starter gets injured. Or if they don't keep up it will be more of an advantage for those who do. Mitigate some of the luck. Even if it's marginal.Think a more active/knowlegeable owner has more of an advantage in this format.

 

[BassNBrew]

The biggest pro is that you get your Sundays back. You can go to the game or do something else in the morning without worrying about following the late breaking news.

 

[DoubleG]

It definitely opens up more strategies. More high risk high reward players will go. I've never tried one but it has intrigued me.

Since i normally only play one league I like how it will open up more players/games to have a stake in. Plus I think it will force my leaguemates to be more active. No longer just start your studs and only make a move when a starter gets injured. Or if they don't keep up it will be more of an advantage for those who do. Mitigate some of the luck. Even if it's marginal.Think a more active/knowlegeable owner has more of an advantage in this format.

Not necessarily. A more active/knowledgeable owner also does well in formats where part of the strategy is deciding who to start. Granted, it's a different set of skills, but skills nontheless. I think best ball formats have more "draft skill", whereas, regular "set a lineup" leagues require a skill in studying matchups, noticing trends (i.e. there's a certain Saint receiver who only plays well indoors...and no, it's not Colston), preparing for bad matchups, etc.

In best ball, I always have a certain sense of draft enough upside guys who will throw enough stuff at the wall and see who's sticks the highest...as it were.

Sure, sometimes your lineup will be obvious, but I really have a hard time thinking it somehow took more skill to have a no-name WR on your team that had a career day beat someone because the other team's starting RB got pulled because his team was up by 3 TDs. While this could happen in a lineup league, at least it would have taken someone the guy had actually decided to start instead of "Oh look, THT, my handcuff for Beanie just put up 120 yards receiving."