OK......I'm in the BHC fantasy league but I gotta tell ya.......I don't get it. How does the scoring work? How are wins/losses calculated? Can somebody give me a brief rundown of the "rules?"
I'm probably not the best guy to be explaining this since my team totally sucks, but here goes nothing. :D Wins and Loses are calculated on the cumulative total of that particular stat for the week. So for example, total members of your team hit 10 home runs during the course of the week. Your opponents team only totals 8 home runs during that time, you get the win. The same goes for the other stats like hits, RBI's, stolen bases, wins, saves, ERA, etc. If you both end up with 10 home runs, it's considered a tie. The tricky part comes in that only your active players for each day can score points. So you fill all your positions and generally have 3-4 bench (designated as BN) players. Those players don't count for that day's totals. So let's assume your SS isn't playing that day for whatever reason - no game, getting a rest, injured, etc. - you can sit him for the day and activate one of your bench players in his place. You have up until 10 minutes before scheduled game times to move players around. The same goes for your pitchers. Only starting pitchers count towards your totals (ones designated as SP). So you need to move players around each day depending on who is playing and who isn't. If a player gets hurt and goes on the DL in real life, you can place them on the DL for your team and add another player to your roster. So for example I have A-Rod on my team. He's on the DL right now so I moved him to the DL and added another 3rd baseman to my team in the meantime. When he comes back I can reactivate him, but then I have to let someone go as I can only have so many players. But this way I don't have to get rid of him entirely and risk someone else picking him up. Now let's assume a player starts playing bad or gets injured but isn't on the DL and you want to get rid of them and pick someone else up, instead of just sitting them. You can drop them and add a new player that nobody else has on their team. So check the Player List to see who's free and you can make moves as you see fit. Just be careful - you may not want to drop a good player just because they have a bad game or two. I dropped Randy Johnson because he sucked his first two starts and KILLED my ERA, but then last night he took a no-hitter into the 7th, struck out a bunch of hitters, and ended up with the win. But since I dropped him, I get no credit for that. I'm not totally up on how trades work, so someone else might have to chime in on that. Hope that helps mobow and don't fee bad, you're doing better than me! :D
Thanks, Justin. Yeah, the basics is what I was looking for, I had absolutely no idea how that worked. And the fact that I'm doing as well as I am is simply dumb luck. I've not done anything with my players, I check in once a day just to see how I'm doing....
