Fantasy Baseball: Head To Head Mock Draft Review 2016
By Scott Dillon
Fantasy Baseball drafts should soon be under way. Hopefully, this Head to Head points mock draft can help you find some good values.
Unlike a rotisserie format that pits your team against the entire league for the course of the season, head to head play goes against one opponent per week.
The basic concept in this format is a lot like fantasy football in that points are awarded rather than each team trying to win a ‘category’. Whichever team has the most points at the end of the fantasy week, wins that match-up.
ESPN has this format defined as:
"H2H Points is very similar to how fantasy football is played. It allows you to assign a given point value to individual statistic categories (i.e. HR=4, RBI=1, etc.) and each scoring period’s winner is determined solely by which team accumulates the most fantasy points versus a single opponent. The end result is a win (1-0-0), loss (0-1-0) or tie (0-0-1)."
Scoring can vary depending on your league settings, but this league used a standard format for scoring. The scores for each action are as follows:
Hitters:
- Total Bases = One Point
- Run Scored = One Point
- Stolen Base = One Point
- Walk = One Point
- RBI = One Point
- Strikeout = Negative One Point
Pitchers:
- Inning Pitched = Three Points
- Win = Three Points
- Save = Five Points
- Hit allowed = Negative One Point
- Earned Run = Negative Two Points
- Loss = Negative Five Points
- Strikeout = One Point
- Walk = Negative One Point
In this draft I used an auto-pick feature to completely remove and hometown biases I may have. I’ll break down my team as well as give you the picks that went too early and those picks that were steals at the end of the draft (as this is a KC Royals site I’ll also give a rundown of where each Royal was drafted).
Alright, that’s enough of the explanations, let’s get to my very lopsided team.
Next: Meet The Team