For the past week and a half, I've been engaged in a scorched earth battle for a championship in a head to head fantasy baseball league. I was in three leagues this year, and this is the only one where my team showed life, so it's kind of a big deal. If I can pull off the win, I'll be up for the year, and money's tight enough now that this matters. The rules of the league are pretty traditional: 5 x 5 Yahoo (Runs, RBIs, HRs, SBs and OBA against Wins, Saves, ERA, WHIP and K/9). The tie-breaking category is ERA, which just drives me crazy, in that it basically double-rewards a ratio category, and allows your team to lose it all at the last possible moment from an exploding reliever. It also rewards inaction, rather than action, in that if you get up in the category, you should just sit on the lead.But the tiebreaker really isn't the biggest turd in the punchbowl here. That's the fact that the league is daily moves, with a move cap of 150 for the year. And once the playoffs come, provi...
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