Owner Trades
How do you evaluate trades in your Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball league?
It seems most people only look at the Y! rankings. (Also called the O Rank.) Sure they sort it to see what the player has done in the past month and week, but I would guess most owners don't look at the stats, but rather the rank for the time period.
What's the fascination with this? Is it because they're lazy and looking for an instant answer? Any trade (if you're trying to improve your team) has to be judged on whether it improves your weaknesses without hurting a strength too much, right?
Just to let you all know: If you have custom scoring, those rankings are not adjusted for your league, and they don't weigh a players position at all. OF's are judged on the same scale as SP's; 2B's on the same as 1B, etc. If you know anything about baseball you know how different the talent pool is at each position. Any ranking system that doesn't account for the position a player plays is garbage.
lol. Tell me about it man.....my league-mates worship the O-Rank and it is absolutely ridiculous (Hardy at 38, O. Hudson at 63...I mean come on). I try to do exactly what you describe at the bottom, and it pays off for me in a head-to-head setting.
Here's a perfect description of what NOT to do. There is a guy in my league who has David Wright and Ryan Braun for 3B. His OF consists of Beltran, Nick Swisher, Hunter Pence and J.D. Drew. An incredibly weak OF (especially in an 8-man league). I offer him Carlos Lee (I have very deep OF) for David Wright and he turns it down. I still can't figure out why.....it would have dramatically improved his team overall correct? He could have dropped one of his bum OF and made a solid SP waiver pick-up like McGowan or Gallardo. Instead, he sits on his hands. This is along the lines of what you are talking about. The next week, I accept a trade getting Alex Rios for John Lackey. It is vetoed because "Rios has a rank of 15 while Lackey has a rank of 61". Note that the guy trading me Rios already had 4 solid OF and was extremely lacking in pitching.
I've been trying to preach the unnecessary reliance on rankings but to no avail; they are like the Bible to my league-mates, and to most public league players as well. I could keep going on with examples, but I am assuming you know what I am saying.
I agree in the fact that trades need to be judged on a need-by-need basis, whether it's position strength or category strength. Too bad most don't feel the same way.
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