I have been a Yahoo! user/fantasy participant since the year 2000. I play fantasy baseball, basketball, hockey, NCAA march madness, and football with you. I have never left yahoo! for any other fantasy sports site. I have a simple request of you and am very hopeful you are able to grant it asap, prior to the 2017 fantasy baseball season.

My long-standing head-to-head league is moving away from ERA/WHIP. We want to steer clear of ratio/percentage stat categories.

Therefore, I am asking that you add a new stat category for pitching which combines walks allowed and hits allowed.

On this Yahoo link (https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN6800.html), we see that you currently provide both HITS and WALKS as two individual stat categories for users to choose from. All of my league members and I are asking that you create one that combines the two; it can be called WALKS + HITS (regarding the TOTAL number of walks and hits a pitcher allows in his outing). We are aware of the WHIP category and that's not what we prefer to use. Again, we are trying to steer clear of a ratio/percentage and are hopeful to move forward to whole numbers...in this case a combination of two stats as one category.

Please consider implementing this for this upcoming fantasy baseball season. If this is indeed granted, it would return our league to a 5x5 category league which is what we are hopeful for. We are trying to avoid the ratios/percentages while also avoiding a total of 11 categories which is what we are currently at. If you are able to add this option for us, we can get it back to 5x5 while using the other 9 categories (along with the proposed total WALKS allowed + total HITS allowed) which we are proposing.

I am going to ask my league-mates to post in support of this and also ask the rest of the community/forum to help us by voting 3 votes and posting positive feedback for our proposal. We are really looking forward to having this as an option for this season.

Thanks, Yahoo!, for your time and consideration. This is really important to us. Much appreciated.

I found this comment from yahoo last year when this subject was brought up. ...this is what they wrote.

We have added a column with the Opposing Pitcher in the My Team (Roster > Opponents) tab to provide insight into the matchup. Adding stats for a particular match-up is a tougher task, but we hope to add at some point this season.

Career batter vs pitcher stats have been added to players pages.

Thanks for your feedback and patience.
Yahoo Fantasy Sports

My comment is why take it down again? It was obviously a hot topic that many many wanted. You agreed, and added it back. Why not offer it again this season? Why mess with what the public wants???

That was literally the only reason my league still uses Yahoo! Fantasy Sports. The quality of the site is as sufficient as other sites, but where you guys really stood out was in the ability of the league to stay connected and banter with GIFs and Pics in the league message board. It really is not that difficult (I know that you know this), and as of right now I just code the image or gif in myself. The problem is that it is a hassle, and not everyone in my league knows how to do it. Please, please, please just bring the "post image" button back so we don''t have to consider moving sites next year. It will have to be voted on in league this season, so by the time you guys re-add it we will be gone, as will a lot of other leagues... I feel like your engineers haven't realized this yet; by removing something that people really like only to bring it back the next year like it was an "improvement" is not having the effect you think. People leave and don't come back, regardless of whether you bring back whatever it was that made them leave. I'm talking your hardcore supporters; the core guys who have been with you for a decade or longer (14 years for us I think). Don't do this to us, please. A simple button that does the img src= blah blah blah for us is all I ask. Seriously. If there are unseen issues, then lay out guidelines, that's fine. Just don't ruin what has always been a good thing, and the one aspect of your site that helps it stand out among the others.

Although there is a "minimum innings pitched" option available for head to head leagues, I believe there needs to be one instituted for Rotisserie as well. ESPN has already adopted this feature and I believe the season long minimum should be set at 1000 innings.

The reason this is necessary is because someone in my league employed a strategy of only drafting batters early then going after all the elite relief pitchers without having a single starting pitcher on his team. He also has many relief pitchers on his bench that he can activate during off days and some relief pitchers with starting pitching eligibility to put in his SP slots.

The result is he will go on to dominate the Saves category along with ERA and WHIP because of the low amount of innings he will utilize with only elite relievers. It seems he is primed to win by finding a way outside of the system which I believe is outside of fair play. At the very least, he has guaranteed himself a top 3 finish. This is a loophole that needs to be addressed.

Limits on pitching (as well as hitting) exist in "Points" leagues. Why ON EARTH do they they not exist in "Head-to-Head - Points" leagues? I'm talking specifically about the "Max Innings" option. Without such a limit, everyone in my league would use a 10-man rotation- the incentives would be there to use as many starting pitchers as possible.

Further, the ideal formats for pitching limits would be "Max Games Started" and "Max Pitching Appearances." I'd imagine most leagues would set the Max Games Started limit at 162 and tailor the Max Pitching Appearances to the number of SP and RP roster spots in their league. But there would be no harm in allowing Max/Min options on a variety of categories, no?

Yahoo, this is a FATAL flaw in the "Head-to-Head - Points" format. My league will not be able to participate in the format as it's currently configured. Can you please fix ASAP, before Opening Day?

To any other Commissioners/Managers who have played in Head-to-Head - Points leagues, can you share any thoughts/advice on this?

We dynasty players were promised the ability to have and KEEP prospects with the addition of NA slots to carry prospects year to year. But each year the NA designation disappears and your prospects are thrown onto the active roster and have to be selected as active players to lock in as keepers. Which destroys any illusion of playing dynasty ball.

You either have to drop those prospects or some vets from your active roster. You also have to load any new NA players "through" the active roster and then shove them down into NA slots after the draft when the NA slots magically reappear.

That means in season you can't trade prospects without trading or dropping someone from your regular roster in the process and losing them since, again, no NA player can go directly into a NA slot but has to go through the active roster first.

This is all madness. Yahoo made a promise of a mini farm system what? Five years ago was it. Each year we bring to their attention this problem. Each year we are told they realize it is a MAJOR problem and they are going to fix it. Each year they don't. I'd bet the house they don't fix it again this year.

Why does Kyle Schwarber still have Catcher position eligibility? *And don't quote me the 2016 article.*

We are just over 30% completed with the 2017 season and he has played the following amounts at Catcher as of 6/3/17:
# of games started: 0 (Cubs have played 54 games)
# of games played in: 2 (Cubs have played 54 games)
# of innings played in the field: 3.0 (approximately 486 innings not including extra innings games; that's 0.6% of the innings the Cubs have played that Kyle Schwarber has spent behind the plate.)

Do you, Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball, not think it fair to re-set his Catcher eligibility and make him earn it? I propose the All-Star Break a good time to do that.

It really is not fair that owners can stick him in at their Catcher position when he is clearly not actively catching on a regular basis to even garner 1% of innings played behind the plate.

I find it silly that Yahoo! still gives him C eligibility. ESPN and CBS do not have him with Catcher eligible, and rightfully so.

Disgruntled,
Not a Kyle Schwarber Owner