Fantasy Sports - Misunderstood Concepts #3

League Rules

Again, this is a separation of sharp and not sharp..............players values slide up and down based on the rules/roster requirements of a league..........also the format, Roto vs Weekly...........obviously some guys, like ARod, don't really move in value, they are great no matter what and should be picked #1 in most leagues (funny, because the guy I am going to pick on had the #1 pick in both of these leagues and made the no brainer choice of ARod)...........I have a friend that plays many fantasy leagues...........he usually doesn't do very well in the leagues in which I play in (along with a few other sharp players)........but claims to do well in his other leagues (he fibs, so I can only say he claims)...............but the reason he doesn't do well, is that he reads ESPN.com Insider and gets comfortable with a group of players..........the even funnier part of his futility and lack of usage of different rules and roster requirements to make decisions, is that he is a fucking math teacher.........but one of his limitations is that he was a good baseball player and do more looking than thinking when it comes to these things.............anywho, we drafted 2 leagues the last few weeks, a 10 team lineup league in which we used the following 6 categories W, SV, HLD, K, ERA, WHIP (and starting positions SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P)..............this league also contained a 40 IP weekly min, which means, assuming you have 4 relievers that average 3.5 innings a piece, you still need 26 IP from your starters, meaning at least 4 good starts, 5 decent starts and possibly 6 starts that include a couple of poor starts............my friend chose an excellent pitching staff, that was loaded with top starters, who's strikeout rates weren't all great (save Johan), but pitched a lot of innings and had decent ERA and WHIP for starters...........a really good staff for this league..................then, we chose an 8 team roto league, this league had the following 5 categories W SV KIP ERA WHIP, you notice, we change to KIP instead of K, and this roster can hold anywhere from 6 to 4 starters and 2 to 4 relievers..............only 900 innings total for the year (lower than the 40 IP/week)............you would think with these significant changes that a better strategy would be something closer to what I mentioned above..............but this guy took almost exactly the same staff.....(NO REGARD FOR LEAGUE RULES).