There needs to be a maximum IP limit in H2H categories baseball leagues
There needs to be an option to set a maximum number of innings pitched in weekly head 2 head categories baseball leagues
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Andrew Gillis
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I think it'd be pretty easy (and beneficial) for Yahoo Fantasy League Baseball to create a pitcher-innings limitation feature for H-2-H. It'd work like this...
Allow commishioners to set an innings-limit for each weekly match. For the sake of argument, let's say it's 72 innings total (SP and RP).
If I were to exceed that limitation on a Saturday, then my counting-stats for Saturday (and the remainder of the match) would be negated, and my pitching-week ends. My pitching-stats would "roll-back" to what I had at the completion of the previous day.
If I were to have a worse ERA or WHIP because of my Saturday, those values would remain as is... thus a true "punishment" is incurred for my weekly overage. I don't think this would be very hard for Yahoo coders to implement. That said... and I'm not 100% sure of this... I think this overage punishment would have to happen *after* the weekly "Stat Corrections" are completed.
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Dave Davis
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Our league, If I had a Hammer ID#8566, since 2003, is considering leaving yahoo format, because there is no H2H controls for pitching, specifically starting but also relievers. We have lots of streaming, which most of our team owners don't like, but have to exercise, in order to remain competitive. In order to control streaming, there has to be either a weekly limit on innings and/or starts for pitchers in H2H leagues. Other systems like CBS or ESPN, offer number of games pitched or started, as a controlled limit, in league set up. Our league respectfully asks why doesn't Yahoo offer such control in league setup, when other systems do, even in your own roto leagues. We are asking that Yahoo not only consider this but implement it. This control would be very helpful and appreciated by long time Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Enthusiasts.
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Nolan Rabine
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My league made the switch from ESPN this year, a platform that limits starts in a weekly matchup to 12 per team, and it seems unfathomable to us that Yahoo doesn't even have an option to limit the number of starts per week. Leagues that want unlimited starts should be allowed to have them, but those of us who don't want to see teams streaming 20 starters a week shouldn't have to be enforcing that manually. This is a massive oversight.
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Grant Grigsby
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So easy to implement, do it!
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Josh Burkhart
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100%. Leagues should have this option. If leagues do not want to use a maximum, they should not be forced to...but for leagues that want it, there has to be a way to implement it. Other sites have this availability, why doesn’t Yahoo!?
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James Brooks
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come on already
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Tye Coursolle
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There needs to be an option for a maximum innings pitched. Too many teams in my H2H league are just streaming pitchers for volume to snag a couple pitching categories. Having a maximum innings pitched option there would be good as it would keep everyone on an even playing field.
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Anonymous
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where is the vote against button?
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Kyle Burger
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Need a “maximum IP” for Head-to-Head Points League or “Start Limit” to prevent excessive steaming.
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Jeremy Zulauf
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Max IP needs to be implemented. Puts everyone on even footing. You're not simply streaming to win. In H2H pts format you can't steal catagories with having one great start. It all cumulative pts. but when someone has a heavy arm week and they use ALL their pickups on SP's you can't catch them. Please fix!
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Brandon
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Please set a max innings pitched or max starts per week for weekly H2H category leagues, this is a major flaw.
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jeff hansen
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This is a horse **** idea. People that have a stupid 7.0 limit who only play relief pitchers would be at an advantage. If I have a bunch of pitchers who pitch every 4 days and twice a week, I should be penalized because people don't want to add more pitching and use their NA spots for hitting? Stupid idea. I get it. But stupid.
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Leslie Rock
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our h2h points league has become nothing but a streaming SP league. Yahoo needs to come up with a rule to prevent streaming. as it is now, whoever streams the most, wins. perhaps a maximum innings rule would take care of the situation. i enjoy playing points baseball as long as mindless streaming is prohibited.
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zack kover
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Max IP HAS to be implemented. It is by far the major flaw in yahoo fantasy baseball. A max starts would be the best option as it limits the advantage of double starts. If I go up against 7 double starts to my 1, that’s just as bad as streaming. Especially if this happens in the playoffs that’s a guaranteed 2 categories (standard at least) with the chance of getting the other categories as well. It’s obviously less likely to win era and whip or whatever the counters are, but 7 more starts GUARENTEES 2 with the ability to just keep throwing and fight for era and whip. It’s remarkable this still hasn’t been addressed as it’s SO obvious and so avoidable. Fantasy baseball isn’t about how many pitchers you throw, it should be about quality and matchups. Transaction limits are nice too, especially weekly, however the flaw there is the double start issue. Again, if someone has 2 or 3 more double starts (not uncommon) than you are starting out the week down 0-2 before it starts essentially. PLEASE MAKE THIS CHANGE. Yahoo is better in every other way, but this is a deal breaker
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Jeff Roman
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Add the option for a max IP's for the week just like you can have a max IP for the season (rotisserie) so that you just don't cycle 4th and 5th starters to get as many starts/innings for the week. Fantasy BB should be about skill, not streaming. You don't stream batters, so why do we have it such that people stream SP's?
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jonathan hicks
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More helpful would be a max transaction limit of either season total transactions (excluding trades) or lower weekly limit. The roster size specifically the use of 4 pitcher spots lends itself to constant streaming whereby a team may use 6 adds a wk to max the pitching starts and use volume of innings and stats from ****** pitchers to win 3/5 pitching categories. Inevitable 3-4 end up rotating the same junk pitchers each wk and it really is not a skill or a realistic game.
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Andrew Bukta
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Either this or the option to set start limits. ESPN has this and it is having us entertain switching over. Without having a top-end limit, it is always going to be possible to "brute force" category wins.
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Luke Funkhouser
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In a real baseball game, one team has to get 27 outs and so does the other team. There should be an option where we make both managers pitch approximately the same amount. By having a min innings pitched and a max innings pitched, you can pull this off. It makes sense. It prevents mindless streaming from helping mindless managers.
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Carl LaCascia
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well, considering some leagues keep track of Hits, Walks, Runs etc.... usually the guys with too many innings lose these categories while trying to win SO and ERA etc...... Let them. Maybe your league should include those stats to keep people from pitching too many innings??
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Anonymous
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OP, why not just set a Max Acquisitions Per Week? That prevents them from continuously streaming.