HEAD-TO-HEAD Value of Closers For Your Team
OK, so I'm sure you all know by now that I am a proponent of closers. I think they hold a special value to any fantasy team. In a H2H league format they are priceless. In the FBSEL that I'm playing its your typical 5x5 Roto H2H format, which saves is of course one of the categories. I drafted 3 closers because my strategy was to shorten the contest to winning 5 out of 9 to win the week, while my opponent has to win 6 out of 9. Better than that having 3 or 4 closers also allows you to focus your attention away from saves and keep you focus on the categories you still need to win. That can be an advantage if your opponent is trying to muster up saves to compete with you.
Another advantage of having several strong closers is their ability to help your strikeouts, get occasional wins, and keep your ERA and WHIP lower in most cases. Again, this relaxes your need for several dominant starters allowing you to focus more picks and energy on offense. Many closers average 1+ strikeouts per appearance so you are likely to gets extra strikeouts along with some of your setup guys.
The final advantage is what that win does for your team week in and week out. In the FBSEL, after 11 weeks I am 8-0-3. I have never been beat in that category. Those 8 wins out of my 70 are 11% of my total wins and attribute nothing to losses. My lead right now in my division is only 12 games, I've picked up 9.5 of those 12 in the 11 weeks with just saves. Let's say I finish the season 16-2-5 in saves. Wow, that could be the difference of me making the playoffs or not.
What's even better is I told you they can have a positive impact on a pitching staff right? Well, my pitching staff as a whole in 11 weeks has a dominant 38-13-4 record in the expert league. Whether the stats will back up that I'm doing that well because of closers is not known, but it allows me to not have to invest so much time and effort into improving my pitching when I'm clearly dominating.
So I grab offense in free agency and trades. How has my offense responded? 33-17-5. Again, one of the best and certainly very good.
My overall record in the Fantasy Baseball Search Expert League is 71-30-9, which is the best record in the league. Now I'm not saying it all has to do with Valverde, Wood, Fuentes, and a small cast of setup men. What I'm saying is that is where your team can develop its strength, keep for getting wiped out in a week, and give you a head start nearly every week.
The True Guru
Another advantage of having several strong closers is their ability to help your strikeouts, get occasional wins, and keep your ERA and WHIP lower in most cases. Again, this relaxes your need for several dominant starters allowing you to focus more picks and energy on offense. Many closers average 1+ strikeouts per appearance so you are likely to gets extra strikeouts along with some of your setup guys.
The final advantage is what that win does for your team week in and week out. In the FBSEL, after 11 weeks I am 8-0-3. I have never been beat in that category. Those 8 wins out of my 70 are 11% of my total wins and attribute nothing to losses. My lead right now in my division is only 12 games, I've picked up 9.5 of those 12 in the 11 weeks with just saves. Let's say I finish the season 16-2-5 in saves. Wow, that could be the difference of me making the playoffs or not.
What's even better is I told you they can have a positive impact on a pitching staff right? Well, my pitching staff as a whole in 11 weeks has a dominant 38-13-4 record in the expert league. Whether the stats will back up that I'm doing that well because of closers is not known, but it allows me to not have to invest so much time and effort into improving my pitching when I'm clearly dominating.
So I grab offense in free agency and trades. How has my offense responded? 33-17-5. Again, one of the best and certainly very good.
My overall record in the Fantasy Baseball Search Expert League is 71-30-9, which is the best record in the league. Now I'm not saying it all has to do with Valverde, Wood, Fuentes, and a small cast of setup men. What I'm saying is that is where your team can develop its strength, keep for getting wiped out in a week, and give you a head start nearly every week.
The True Guru
posted by The True GURU at
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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