I'd go Betts.

Less injury risk, and he's basically 90% of Trout's numbers

Those were my thought as well although Harpers OBP is sexy

I'd take Harper>Betts, Harper's "down year" had a better OBP, 7 less HR, 5 less SB, and unlikely Betts ever sees that many AB again. We don't know if that's Betts ceiling, but we've seen Harper's (or what we think it is, maybe higher!) and it's MUCH better

For sure harper

Im a sucker for Harper but I take him #2 in an OBP keep forever as well

Differences in draft strategy for roto vs head to head?

I much prefer roto for a variety of reasons. First if you lose key players to injury late in the season it has much less impact because the last weeks don't count any more than any other week.

I would say the first rule of roto is DO NO HARM, meaning you don't want pitchers who will blow up your era/whip no matter how many K's or W's they get. If you can dominate era/whip you can go to a last month streaming strategy to maximize starts for more W's and K's. More than half the league will be waiting for fantasy football by this point and won't be competing in stats or waiver wire streams.

Rule 2 of roto is to not ignore things like save or steals. They are very important and should have a premium put on them. Address them early and often in both the draft and waiver wire.

Streaming pitchers doesn't work well in roto because you have an inning cap (1400) so max starts does you no good, and especially if they blow up the era/whip. You want to stick with ace/well above average performers. You also have 162 positional caps so plugging in a scrubish hitter on your star hitters off days probably is detrimental unlike H2H were you wants all the slots active every day.

Batting average is hard to figure but you need to have an eye for those higher average guys. Too many .240 long ball thumpers will hurt more than you think. Once again DO NO HARM.

Roto is a marathon while H2H is 26 weekly sprints. I think balance is a little more important in roto. Literally everyone here disagrees with me though so take my thoughts with a grain of salt

In roto I like having 2 ace type SP's and 3/4 strong closers. That means you have to draft them early. In H2H I think you can put far less emphasis on pitching.

I should have worded question better...I have only played roto, plenty of experience there. I have my first h2h draft today. Not sure what adjustments to make in draft strategy. I would assume load up on hitters and closers and stream starters?

Steaming is highly dependent on league settings. Settings like max adds, min IP and if categories like K/9 or K/BB are used.

Yahoo pro league. Standard yahoo settings. No max innings. 6 adds per week.

park reassigned to minors

Twins reassigned 1B/DH ByungHo Park to minor league camp.

Park did everything in his power to make the Opening Day roster this spring, batting .353 with a 1.159 OPS and six home runs over 51 at-bats in Grapefruit League play. For reasons that aren't quite clear, the Twins will head north without their best DH option.

God damnit

none of us are happy about this!

I think it's important in H2H to pay up for one ace SP.

I want at least 1 pitcher not lower than Verlander/Lester/Cueto, pick whomever you like at their tier or above.

You need that guy to give you a 7 IP, 10 K kind of line week in and week out.

When your ace has a 2-start week, it's a huge boost.

You basically have no shot in the playoffs for pitching if you don't have at least one ace, hopefully with another or two that have turned into aces.

Also, just my opinion, but head to head is vastly superior to roto.

By June, 60% of the roto league is incapable of winning, big comebacks are possible in head to head. Keeps the league competitive and fun.

Counterpoint: the H2H playoff system is a complete luckfest. Roto rewards skill far more effectively.

lolol at Park being demoted, Twins beat writers didn't understand, and fans were pissed, pretty hilarious

Blake Treinen announced as Nats Closer (lol grabbed him in all the YPL's before as a flyer)
Yankees 5th Starter still "TBA", they're going to have Green and Montgomery start 2 minor league games to see who does better
Matz to DL, Gsellman/Wheeler in rotation
Pomeranz to DL, backdated so sounds like he may still make a start early in season.

Most leagues pay the regular season best record 10%. I've even done a league where Best Record got 20%, 2nd got 10%, and 40/20/10 for the playoff finish.

And playoff matchups are 2 weeks, not 1.

Hot/cold streaks definitely happen, but the better team prevails most of the time in a 2-week playoff matchup

in one 2p2 league we just have 25 weeks of season, no playoffs, with h2h

you get the fun of h2h and avoid the luck of playoffs.

win win win!

Still way more variance in H2H. Injuries will kill you too in H2H. If some of your top guys go down late in the season it is devastating H2H but not much of a factor in roto. Even guys that go down earlier like Story last year can still contribute a great deal to a roto team but don't do anything for the only real 2 weeks that matter in H2H.

I guess I just like bathing in my opponents' blood and hearing the lamentations of their women

If I was 2nd place in roto, I'd want a shot for the title rather than root for decimals to change over big samples

In a roto LG with 6x6 (IP, K/9) and a GS limit (152) instead of IP limits. There are 2 SP slots in each lineup (2p, 2rp). 6 bench.

1. How many SP should I draft to hit 150 GS? Around 5? Im assuming I need to grab a great staff.

2. I should really emphasize long relievers with SP eligibility on ESPN right? I'm looking at guys like Devinski and Phelps who could approach 100IP without a single GS. How early should I reach for guys like this?

LolPark
LolTreinen

H2H: have fun with frienda
Roto: yell at clouds with nitty old men