Fantasy Friday – Roto vs. H2H

Friday’s will start being a day for me to help those of you veteran and novice fantasy sports players.  I’ve had many folks tell me they’d like to learn more, so here is your first dose of fantasy expertise by The Daily Dan…

What’s the difference between the two scoring platforms – Rotisserie vs. Head to Head

Rotisserie is the format that is built for baseball and basketball.  “Owners” draft players to fill all positions and each position gets a maximum of the number of games per season.  This way, everyone gets the equal number of games.

Example – I drafted Kobe Bryant in my fantasy basketball league this year.  His position (shooting guard) is allowed 82 games for the season (equaling the number of games played in the NBS season).  If I switched him out of that position every time he didn’t play, I wouldn’t be able to use all his games.  For him (and other stars) unless they get injured and miss games, I will never move them.  I the end, you want to be able to use all your games and run out at the end of the season, not 3 weeks early.

There are “Utility” positions you can rotate players in and out of (maximums still apply).  You may also have other positions that you don’t mind “rotating” players.

Head to Head is built for fantasy football.  You play head to had every week against another owner.  Football is easiest because games are only played every week.  You will find the other sports offer this option, but I don’t like H2H for these sports because it requires too much work on a daily basis.  You accumulate points for the week and if you outscore your opponent, you get a win and they get a loss.  Much like real sports, you have a record and that leads to the playoffs.

Football is obviously over; basketball is currently being played; and baseball is around the corner.  If you play (or want to play) fantasy sports and have questions, this is the place…

Dan

Monday Morning QB

1 – Where’s Housh – T.J. Houshmandzadeh was the big-time free agent signing for the Seahawks and has been a disappointment.  Trust me…I have him on my fantasy football team and I know the production isn’t there. It’s not his fault.  It’s not Matt Hasselbeck’s fault.  Blame goes to the offensive line and Greg Knapp.  The O-line has been awful (next bullet), but Greg Knapp’s offense isn’t run to take advantage of Housh.  T.J. is a better version of Bobby Engram and would have been perfect in Mike Holmgren’s West Coast offense.  Add to it that Hasselbeck has struggled due to a different tempo.  Bottom line – either change the offensive schemes to match your talent or get a new offensive coordinator.

2 – The line protecting Hasselbeck is truly offensive.  So bad, it almost got him decapitated several times.  Coach Jim Mora already called out the line and intimated changes.  Change to who?  This is an area that must be heavily addressed in the off-season or mediocrity will continue into 2010.

3 – For Mora to survive this position past 2010, he must significantly improve the line of scrimmage on both sides fast. He must take a hard look at his assistant coaches, and he must hope for a new General Manager that will give him some rope.  He has control of two of those items.

4 – Fantasy Football studs for the weekend – Andre Johnson (Houston), Ray Rice (Baltimore), and Chris Johnson (Tennessee)

Bonus – This just in.  Accenture just cut Tiger Woods.  The management consulting company came out and said his new “image” isn’t what they are looking for. This won’t be the first defection from the Tiger team.

Here’s hoping you slide in ahead of the tag today!

Dan

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The Rules of Engagement

Who do you root for – your home team or fantasy player going against them?

I was chatting with a buddy who told me his fantasy football league has a rule that you can’t play your fantasy QB against the Seahawks.  That’s crazy!  Now, I’m as big a Hawks fan as there is, but there’s got to be some sanity here.  I certainly don’t advocate brazenly rooting against your team, but there is a middle ground.  Here’s my position…

You always root for your team to win.  In professional sports, it’s the bottom line.  However, you also root for your fantasy players to be competitive.  For me, that’s a 15 point week for a QB, RB, or WR.  Get some points, don’t go crazy, lose to my team, but help my fantasy team.  Easy.  Now, if it’s a blow out either way, you give the benefit of the doubt to your fantasy players.  We’ve got to be real, right?

This is all easy for me to say this week as my fantasy team won the regular season and gets a BYE this week.  My QB is Matt Schaub who goes up against Seattle.  However, had this been a playoff game for me, Schaub would have been in and I would have been rooting for a 45-42 Seahawks win!

Here’s hoping you slide in ahead of the tag today!

Dan

© 2009 Dan Weedin – All Rights Reserved