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Scoring - Maximum Innings Pitched option for Head-to-head leagues

Requests to add maximum innings pitched requirements for H2H leagues. Currently, this feature isn't supported in H2H leagues.

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  • Ooh M commented  ·   ·  Report

    One way to prevent streaming is to allow the commissioner to require a minimum amount of hitters and pitchers.
    If the league allows up to 23 players on a team. The commissioner can determine how many hitters and pitchers of that 23 players have to be rostered on a team.

    Example if a team can have up to 23 players on a team. 13 of those 23 players have to be hitters and 12 have to be pitchers.

    Or require teams to have a mandatory starter for each position for every game.

  • jeff hansen commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers6807 commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Los Angeles Dodgers6807 commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • zack kover commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • Kyle Burger commented  ·   ·  Report

    Need allow commish to add a MAXIMUM innings pitched or set number of starts per week.

    It's too easy to win when you can stream starting pitchers in a points league (we do have a 5 transaction limit, but still need an innings max).

  • Jeff Roman commented  ·   ·  Report

    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?

  • Jeremy Zulauf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agreed similar issue. Max IP on the year would solve it. Give everyone 1,700 IP available (or pick whichever number you'd like). Evens the paying field. Spot starter become WAY too valuable without this feature. PPL clamoring for an SP owned by 1% of Yahoo, while All Star hitters remain on the wire.

  • jonathan hicks commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Andrew Bukta commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Lee Mansis commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree strongly in the "streaming pitchers" problem, but just limit how many starts a manager can have at the starting pitcher position to seven, just like the rest of the position players and real baseball. limiting innings would not work because some starters might go deep into games, and some might not.

  • Luke W Funkhouser commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • DJ Carl commented  ·   ·  Report

    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??

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why not just set a Max Acquisitions Per Week and switch Total Ks to K's/9 ? That prevents teams from continuously streaming.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    OP, why not just set a Max Acquisitions Per Week? That prevents them from continuously streaming.

  • Evan James commented  ·   ·  Report

    A head-to-head points league just becomes a pitcher streaming competition. This is game breaking. Please fix!

  • Raider Durrrhh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally agree.the standard pro league isn't so much a pro skills league as a pro sit around waiting for 2start SP to clear waivers league.its within rules but Hawking waiver wire and starting the same junk pitchers that everyone's added and dropped 3x already isn't a skill. Standard category pro leagues inevitably turn into a stream fest to accumulate wins ,ks. A season transaction cap or so inning limit would solve this.i favor season total cap for transactions. A default roster with less pitcher spots may also work but is less effective and could cause issues when a team has all their starters going on a given day.

  • Ryan Adams commented  ·   ·  Report

    You can set an innings limit for the season. Good enough

  • Brian Tomaselli commented  ·   ·  Report

    What if all your "BN" are SP's? Most MLB Teams play 6x's a week. So why do you need BN for Batters.. My team is All SP. and 3 RP. Why should you get penalized for having all BN being SP.... Stay active in your league and your fine. PAY ATTENTION.....

  • Kevin OBrien commented  ·   ·  Report

    My league would definitely benefit from having a Games Started limit each week especially since points totals cannot be adjusted if someone goes over the limit that we have. It would make my life as the commissioner so much easier. A max inning and max games started would make Yahoo better.

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