Reserve Lists
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 7:18 am
As Todd stated in another thread, "This is a story for another thread". Well ...this is that thread.
What do you see as the pros/cons of reserve lists in roto/fantasy baseball? Does your league use them? Why or why not? What is their purpose in your league - Major leaguers? Minor leaguers? An amalgam of those and others?
My take - with the obligatory boring back story. I am a dinosaur, and proud to admit it. I can understand the "need" for modifying the games, etc. and I am aware it goes on in many other leagues. I go back as far as when you rushed to the phone to leave a message for the commissioner when someone switched leagues or some hotshot rookie came up when playing in only leagues (which are the only (nyuk, nyuk) leagues I will play after a brief experimentation with other formats). Needless to say, before the technological advances of today, that became quite bothersome...especially to the commissioner. No reserve lists, simply a case of being in the right place at the right time.
Then we discovered ULTRA - a draft to create and fill up reserve lists with possible replacement bodies and minor leaguers for the future and mildy copy the concept of the ML 40 man roster.. As the competition got better, the more research was needed to be done - Japan, Korea, colleges, Latin America, high schools - even Australia. SO, you had to do your homework. Up to 480 bodies could be spoken for in a single 12 team only league. That worked for quite a while - but then we realized we allowed for no entry into our little universe for anyone who wasn't selected on auction/draft day. So ...FAAB ... a very restrictive one ... but FAAB was born into our little group and we've been happy ever since.
If you can win one of our leagues, you've done something. As Will Sonnet used to say; "No brag .... just fact". We have tough rules that most would blanch at today - but we like it. However, we couldn't do it without reserve lists. The reserve lists make you have to plan your strategy - not just let the luck of the draw determine things down the line.
What do you see as the pros/cons of reserve lists in roto/fantasy baseball? Does your league use them? Why or why not? What is their purpose in your league - Major leaguers? Minor leaguers? An amalgam of those and others?
My take - with the obligatory boring back story. I am a dinosaur, and proud to admit it. I can understand the "need" for modifying the games, etc. and I am aware it goes on in many other leagues. I go back as far as when you rushed to the phone to leave a message for the commissioner when someone switched leagues or some hotshot rookie came up when playing in only leagues (which are the only (nyuk, nyuk) leagues I will play after a brief experimentation with other formats). Needless to say, before the technological advances of today, that became quite bothersome...especially to the commissioner. No reserve lists, simply a case of being in the right place at the right time.
Then we discovered ULTRA - a draft to create and fill up reserve lists with possible replacement bodies and minor leaguers for the future and mildy copy the concept of the ML 40 man roster.. As the competition got better, the more research was needed to be done - Japan, Korea, colleges, Latin America, high schools - even Australia. SO, you had to do your homework. Up to 480 bodies could be spoken for in a single 12 team only league. That worked for quite a while - but then we realized we allowed for no entry into our little universe for anyone who wasn't selected on auction/draft day. So ...FAAB ... a very restrictive one ... but FAAB was born into our little group and we've been happy ever since.
If you can win one of our leagues, you've done something. As Will Sonnet used to say; "No brag .... just fact". We have tough rules that most would blanch at today - but we like it. However, we couldn't do it without reserve lists. The reserve lists make you have to plan your strategy - not just let the luck of the draw determine things down the line.