An NFL salary cap league uses the same kind of rotisserie scoring as this league, with usually 8 NFL categories. In both sports, you are jockeying for a better position all season, trying to get ahead of those with higher grand totals, or to stay on top if you're already there. I did salary cap years before head-to-head NFL. Salary cap is an absolute rip-off in NFL, since most charge a fee for every single roster move and for free agents.
An MLB fantasy team can also be set up as head-to-head and I think it works the same way as NFL. My brother won one of those years ago. I think it would be very time-consuming, looking at your upcoming opponents' rosters and which pitchers could be facing off, etc. You have a W-L record and try to make a playoff, as in the NFL. A group that does head-to-head NFL fantasy where I work uses rotisserie for baseball. 162 games is just too much work, with more scoring players, compared to 17 NFL head-to-head games.
I do think that we should run a mock automated and live draft, because the automated draft is really bad in baseball. In the NFL, you can rank players in
pick order,
regardless of position. But in a baseball automated draft, you
must designate the position first, and rank players within that position. If you do no ranking at all, this is the current CBS Sportsline list of who would get drafted first at each slot, and the order in which they'd be drafted:
Default Draft Order: First Pick at Each Position: 1 Starting Pitcher (1st) Johan Santana, MIN, SP
2 Relief Pitcher (1st) Francisco Rodriguez, ANA, RP
3 Left Fielder (1st) Alfonso Soriano, CHC, LF
4 Center Fielder (1st) Grady Sizemore, CLE, CF
5 Right Fielder (1st) Vladimir Guerrero, ANA, RF
6 Catcher (1st) Joe Mauer, MIN, C
7 First Baseman (1st) Albert Pujols, STL, 1B
8 Second Baseman Chase Utley, PHI, 2B
9 Third Baseman Alex Rodriguez, NYY, 3B
10 Shortstop Jose B. Reyes, NYM, SS
11 Catcher (2nd) Victor J. Martinez, CLE, C
12 Left Fielder (1st) Carl Crawford, TB, LF
13 Center Fielder (2nd) Carlos Beltran, NYM, CF
14 Right Fielder (2nd) Bobby Abreu, NYY, RF Utility/Wild Card
15 First Baseman (2nd) Ryan Howard, PHI, 1B Utility/Wild Card
16 Starting Pitcher (2nd) Chris Carpenter, STL, SP
17 Starting Pitcher (3rd) Brandon Webb, ARI, SP
18 Starting Pitcher (4th) Roy Halladay, TOR, SP
19 Starting Pitcher (5th) Roy Oswalt, HOU, SP
20 Relief Pitcher (2nd) Joe Nathan, MIN, RP
21 Relief Pitcher (3rd) Mariano Rivera, NYY, RP
22 Relief Pitcher (4th) Billy Wagner, NYM, RP
After the draft:
23 Reserve player from waivers
24 Reserve player from waivers
Albert Pujols has been the average first pick in MLB drafts so far, but you can see that he would NOT be picked by default until the 7th pick! Since you don't know what positions are being drafted by others, you could see better players going randomly to teams picking after you. A
live draft would be better, since we could pick as many rounds as we wanted and then let the automated picking take over. I don't follow other teams much, but I can make better choices than what an automated draft will do. The ranking lists you can see after sign-up show CBS' 2007 projected stats for each player, which naturally disses the Nationals players.
I hope CBS will be adding players as we get closer to Opening Day, because they only have 60 starting pitchers to choose from now, and we'll draft 50. Also, the team picking last in Round 1 does NOT pick first in Round 2. The rules have a schedule listing who gets what pick each round. I wonder if they'll change the NFL to do this in 2007?
