Custom League Settings (Unofficial) 2 minutes ago

I was starting to browse the custom leagues to join and am having a hard time finding one that suits me. I completely understand the fun of creating a league is to tweak it your own unique way but some some of the settings just completely baffle me.

First, If you are opening the league up publicly, why would you make it so the commissioner, somebody I probably don't know, has the power of vetoing a trade? I would imagine that the commissioner would be fair but since everybody has different player valuations how can i let 1 person decide my trade's fate. It should always be set for the league to vote. Being a public league, this is the only way to be fair to everybody.

Next, If your going to create a custom league, then make it custom. I personally feel Yahoo default settings on rosters are kinda small. Add an OFer or 2. Add some pitching slots. Make it so everybody dosen't have above avg players at every position. This is the easiest way to encourage trading. With the expanded roster, a team will have more then 1 weak slot. Maybe even 3 or 4. Which means then can spend hours scouring the waiver wire or look to make trades to upgrade their holes.

Having expanded roster slots also helps to separate the winners and losers. Not everybody picked up on Aaron Hill or Ben Zobrist last year before they blew up. The ones that got in early were highly rewarded. The ones that didn't, fell. It goes to show, doing your research and keeping up to trends pays off. By having the smaller roster, it just accomodates the casual fan.

Here is a perfect example. Top 15 1b in fantasy baseball:

Pujols

Fielder

Teixiera

Howard

Cabrera

Gonzalez

Youkilis

Morneau

Votto

Lee

Sandoval

Reynolds

Morales

Berkman

Pena

In a 10 team standard Yahoo league, we will assume each team will get 1 of the top 10. Top 6 will be gone by the middle of the second round. 7&8 are gone by the end of 3rd round. Now you have 8 teams with 1b locked up already and look at the talent that is left sitting there for 2 teams. Yes, another 1b can go in the utility slot but you can also fill that slot with overflow from 3b and OF using the same principal.

Now, lets talk about scoring. I don't have a problem so much with how people set up their scoring system. Its a great way to make players who are generally useless, have some value or players like adam dunn, more then 1 trick ponies. What I have a problem with is people not adjusting yahoo defaults when pitching slots are added. For every pitching slot you add to the default setting a minimum of 50ip needs to be added. I prefer 100, but 50 works. The reason this needs to be done is keep balance between hitting and pitching. I saw 1 league I was ready to join but then I noticed he had a max innings limit at 2000 ip. With that setting I can just basically add and drop starters to I can dominate W's,K's and Saves. The reason I say saves is because if I am going to add and drop pitchers all year, I can load up with quality closers and not draft ace starters. Now I have just locked up 3 outta 10 scoring categories. It dosent guarantee me a championship but its a nice advantage. The bottom line is that you need to keep even value for hitting vs pitching.

Well thats it folks, my problems with custom fantasy baseball leagues. I could continue but the others are much more minor like trade deadlines being set on August 1st. Just to early. Or long trade review & waiver time. 5 days? Cmon people. But I am going to end here so hopefully some of you have time to restructure your leagues.

This is confusing. Where was this posted at originally?

Anyway good points. I haven't done custom leagues though. I'm trying to get ready for my only 2 leagues I am doing this year and you won't post your great advice to help me.