Stumbled upon your Substack recently. Look forward to reading more. Just wanted to speak up as someone who is a strong proponent of points leagues! Been the commish of a points league for 20+ years. With the right scoring/rules in place it is the best format by far. Speaking of scoring, I’ll never understand why most leagues deduct for strikeouts. A batter grounds into a double play (worse) etc and that’s fine but points get deducted for a strikeout? Makes no sense. Obviously my league doesn’t, lol.
Agreed on it being the best format with the right scoring/rules! I wish more people would give them a try. I’m doing my best to try and bring in some fresh faces to points leagues.
I do enjoy the deduction for strikeouts. It helps put a little more variance in the scoring and it’s a more easily quantifiable stat than GIDP. I like the CBS scoring format best though taking away just a half a point for strikeouts.
I appreciate you checking out my page and commenting!
Stumbled upon your Substack recently. Look forward to reading more. Just wanted to speak up as someone who is a strong proponent of points leagues! Been the commish of a points league for 20+ years. With the right scoring/rules in place it is the best format by far. Speaking of scoring, I’ll never understand why most leagues deduct for strikeouts. A batter grounds into a double play (worse) etc and that’s fine but points get deducted for a strikeout? Makes no sense. Obviously my league doesn’t, lol.
Agreed on it being the best format with the right scoring/rules! I wish more people would give them a try. I’m doing my best to try and bring in some fresh faces to points leagues.
I do enjoy the deduction for strikeouts. It helps put a little more variance in the scoring and it’s a more easily quantifiable stat than GIDP. I like the CBS scoring format best though taking away just a half a point for strikeouts.
I appreciate you checking out my page and commenting!