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What is a "Rotisserie" fantasy league??

I may have this backwards, but IIRC, Rotisserie is where you play strictly for points, not head to head.
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: bunker
I may have this backwards, but IIRC, Rotisserie is where you play strictly for points, not head to head.
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I've seen Rotisserie Head to Head leagues...
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All right you bastard, now you're gonna make me go search for the damn answer 😛
 
Rotisserie League Scoring is based on fantasy teams being ranked from first to last in each of several statistical categories that the commissioner of the league has deemed an appropriate category to be scored for the league. For instance, in baseball, wins, saves, strikeouts, home runs, runs batted in and stolen bases may be a few of the categories that are to be scored. Points are then awarded according to the order of finish in each category, and are totaled to determine an overall score and place.

So, if you are in a 12-team league, the team with the most home runs will receive 12 points, the team with the second most will receive 11 points, all the way down to the team with the least amount of home runs receiving 1 point for the home run category. In the case of a tie, each team involved receives an average of the total points due to them. In the above example, if two teams were tied for first in homers, each would receive 11.5 points [(12 + 11) / 2 = 11.5].

Therefore, the maximum number of points that a team can earn is equal to the number of scoring categories within a league multiplied by the number of teams in the league. Similarly, the lowest number of points that a team can earn is equal to the number of scoring categories multiplied by one, which is the lowest score that can be achieved in any category.

In baseball for example, usually 5 batting and 5 pitching scoring categories are used. If you had 12 teams, the highest "score" you could achieve in the league is 12 (teams) times 10 (scoring categories) for a possible 120 points. Rankings within the individual scoring categories (HR, RBI, etc.) are based on the cumulative stats earned by all active players during the season and not on any individual day or game.

Therefore, the overall ranking of your team will rise and fall depending on how it performs relative to the performance of other league members.

This is the most common scoring method used in fantasy baseball leagues. This type of scoring method is also often used in basketball leagues, but I would not recommend a football league using this type of scoring method.

 
Rotisserie is category based, instead of points based. To use baseball as an example, in a Rotisserie style league, you compare category to category (such as home runs, stolen bases, batting average, etc.). The one winning more categories is the winner. In a points style league, you get a certain number of points for each home run, stolen base, etc. and the one with the higher point total wins.
 
It probably leads to a more balanced winner because you can't exploit one category like strikeouts or HR's. It doesn't matter if you are leading by 1 HR or 200, you get the same amount of points.

But don't expect too many changes in point totals and rankings each day. Even if you have one of the greatest fantasy sports days ever, you might not move any higher in the rankings.
 
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