Why doesn't ROTO factor in walks?

[thrash]

I play straight fantasy point...but it just seems logical to count walks and strikeouts as a category. Either just plain walks, or a BB/K ratio. It's such a large part of real baseball, and a player's value, that it should be at least a category in roto.

Am I wrong here?

[j_d_mcnugent]

i think roto doesnt have walks because roto started before anyone cared about walks or strikeouts. there are custom roto leagues now that have walks, ops, and other stuff like that but most people stick with traditional 5x5, maybe just for the sake of simplicity.

[thrash]

Well obviously the "standard" can be changed.

Bonds is the most valuable hitter in the game...it only seems right that he be the same thing in fantasy baseball.

[Cornbread Maxwell]

Theres also a large group of people that dont think fantasy baseball should try and mirror real baseball.

If you include SOs and walks, you better include assists, and errors. Oh yeah - dont forget you also need to face a different team every day and stat totals at the end of that day are final too - no weekly matchups.

[mtarail]

Pretty easy to add walks. Yahoo has a walks stat that you can add. Or you could get a little more complicated and add an OBP category.

[bleach168]

Use OBP instead of AVG and you factor in walks very conveniently.

I don't think you need Ks so much as players who K a lot usually get penalized already in RBI situations. Adam Dunn, the poster child for Ks, barely got 102 RBIs even though he hit 46 homers.

[bigjimblue]

Yes OBP is the easiest and fairest way to represent walks, hbp, etc.

[xeifrank]

Theres also a large group of people that dont think fantasy baseball should try and mirror real baseball.

If you include SOs and walks, you better include assists, and errors. Oh yeah - dont forget you also need to face a different team every day and stat totals at the end of that day are final too - no weekly matchups.

haha! good points. I brought up a similiar point that the original poster made about the flaws in the standard 5x5 roto categories. There's a very long thread on here with some great responses... do a search.

Many roto players have switched from batting average to OBP. There's your walks right there. 10 categories seems like the best number of manageable categories, if you add too many more you tend to change the dynamics of the game too much and make it harder to evaluate players. Sure the standard 5x5 may not be "the best" or "most realistic" categories but is that really a problem?

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Xeifrank