Does Batting Average Matter????

[cnasty]

I am in a CBS points league where a walk is as good as a hit literally 1 point for a single 1 for a walk. Also this makes walks worth the same as a RBI or Run with this type of league.....

A) Does a players BA matter at all?
B) How important is a players On Base %
C) Do you look at Walks like a sperate cat? = to rbi/runs
D) How far down do guys who dont walk fall on your ranking list? example Carlos Lee never walks

[S27]

A.) Nope

B.) The rate itself isn't as important as it would be in a league with an OBP category.

C.) You don't look at it as a category. There are no categories in points leagues, just ways to sore points and ultimately you want whoever will exploit the scoring format best.

D.) Not drastically. At most, consider a tiebreaker between otherwise similar players. If a player hits for an empty batting average and doesn't take walks (think Kendrick/Polanco types), you would want to knock them down on your list.


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[The Artful Dodger]

Points leagues don't really factor in batting average as a scoring parameter or a parameter you'd surely need to consider in strategy. What BA and OBP could mean is an increased likelihood to score meaningful points week to week in getting a hit and/or walk, but anything that happens on a weekly basis tends to be volatile.