[mavsatxParticipant]

What fantasy bball system do y’all prefer. Points or categories. My friends and I had a huge argument about this and settled for a points system. I prefer categories however. What’s better? Why?

[delfamParticipant]

Points offers no strategy and is only for people who know the game sparingly and pick the best players.

Categories is a lot harder, for more experienced fantasy players, and is more fun in my opinion. Players who might not be known are keys to your team because they stuff certain categories. I’ve always loved punting certain categories and just stacking up on players that are only good in a few cats.

Points = Casual
Cats = Expert

[delfamParticipant]

Points offers no strategy and is only for people who know the game sparingly and pick the best players.

Categories is a lot harder, for more experienced fantasy players, and is more fun in my opinion. Players who might not be known are keys to your team because they stuff certain categories. I’ve always loved punting certain categories and just stacking up on players that are only good in a few cats.

Points = Casual
Cats = Expert

[SiggyParticipant]

Depends on the point system…and other things like acquisition limits.
In H2H, your team can have it’s strengths and weaknesses. In points (again, it depends on your system and the assigned values) or roto, you have to try to be strong across the board.
IMO, H2H is more fun with the match ups. Roto is better for seeing who can compile the best team, period. H2H, your team doesn’t have to be the best to catch a lucky streak and win out. In roto or points, less luck is involved.

Edit: Oh nvm, I read this as points vs h2h as opposed to points vs roto.

I’d take roto every time bc commish’s usually suck at assigning value for stats. There’s usually 1 or 2 stats that can REALLY shift the balance for teams due to crappy value assignment. At least in roto all categories are equal.

[SiggyParticipant]

Depends on the point system…and other things like acquisition limits.
In H2H, your team can have it’s strengths and weaknesses. In points (again, it depends on your system and the assigned values) or roto, you have to try to be strong across the board.
IMO, H2H is more fun with the match ups. Roto is better for seeing who can compile the best team, period. H2H, your team doesn’t have to be the best to catch a lucky streak and win out. In roto or points, less luck is involved.

Edit: Oh nvm, I read this as points vs h2h as opposed to points vs roto.

I’d take roto every time bc commish’s usually suck at assigning value for stats. There’s usually 1 or 2 stats that can REALLY shift the balance for teams due to crappy value assignment. At least in roto all categories are equal.

[delfamParticipant]

points? You mean categories

[SiggyParticipant]

Not sure what you’re asking.
Points only leagues = basically how fantasy football is scored. Value is assigned to each stat category. They tend to favor scorers UNLESS the commish weights the peripheral stats properly, which never happens. I mean if you want to be in a simple league that leans heavily towards scorers, then points is good.

I’ve been in some good points leagues, but that was after a yr or 2 of trial error to figure out the ideal values for each stat. It’s my least favorite for basketball. I’ve also only been in cumulative points bball leagues, not H2H. i find that once a team gets a lead, it’s much harder to catch up than in roto.

[SiggyParticipant]

Not sure what you’re asking.
Points only leagues = basically how fantasy football is scored. Value is assigned to each stat category. They tend to favor scorers UNLESS the commish weights the peripheral stats properly, which never happens. I mean if you want to be in a simple league that leans heavily towards scorers, then points is good.

I’ve been in some good points leagues, but that was after a yr or 2 of trial error to figure out the ideal values for each stat. It’s my least favorite for basketball. I’ve also only been in cumulative points bball leagues, not H2H. i find that once a team gets a lead, it’s much harder to catch up than in roto.

[delfamParticipant]

points? You mean categories

[delfamParticipant]

categories is the main type of fantasy basketball played. You usually have 9 categories(pts, asts, reb, blocks, stls, fg%, ft%, 3p%, turnovers). You take all your players stats and whoever between you or your opponent has a better number in a category receives 1 point. If you win 5 of the 9 categories you get the win vs that opponent.

[delfamParticipant]

categories is the main type of fantasy basketball played. You usually have 9 categories(pts, asts, reb, blocks, stls, fg%, ft%, 3p%, turnovers). You take all your players stats and whoever between you or your opponent has a better number in a category receives 1 point. If you win 5 of the 9 categories you get the win vs that opponent.

[mavsatxParticipant]

i prefer categories but some people prefer to “watch the points go up”… just tryin to see what the consensus was here

[mavsatxParticipant]

i prefer categories but some people prefer to “watch the points go up”… just tryin to see what the consensus was here

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