How to decide?

[krnrpide 92]

How do you guys decide sit/starts? I always get them wrong somehow. I benched 1 of pence's 2 hr so far and benched hart and werth (combined 5-6, 5 runs, 2 hr, 2 rbi) on thurs. Any tips? cuz its really hurting my team right now (about 5-6 pts in a roto league). Of course its only been a few days, but i dont want this to continue. It almost burned me last year, but I got a couple of nice pickups/trades to make up for it...

[Slobula]

Don't move guys around every day - [play the guys who you think are the best over the course of the year. And why did you draft a log jam?

[schmidty]

I like having a clear pecking order in my lineup. Unless you truly believe that a bench player's level of ability has risen over your starter (which usually takes a bit of the season to figure out), stick with that pecking order. That way, even if I leave stats on the bench, I don't beat myself up over it.

I know sometimes you can't always get your roster to work out like that. You can use batter vs pitcher info (but don't read too much into limited sample sizes), home/road and platoon splits. Sometimes I'll just leave the guy with the latest game start time on the bench, so I have the flexibility to sub him in if another starter unexpectedly gets the game off (or the game gets called due to bad weather)