Traditional Rules for Rotisserie Style Fantasy Baseball

In traditional Rotisserie League Fantasy Baseball, teams are ranked from first to last in each of several statistical categories. Points are awarded based on the numbers a fantasy team accumulates over the course of the season, for a given category. The team with the most cumulative points across all categories at the end of the season wins the league.

Scoring Example

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, etc. In the case of a tie, each team involved receives an average of the total points due—i.e., 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.

So, if you were playing in a league with 12 teams and 12 scoring categories, the lowest point total possible is 12 [12 * 1 = 12] and the highest is 144 [12 * 12 = 144].

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. So, the phenomenon of “losing points” can be explained as your rank falling in one or more of the statistical categories used in your league.

Traditional Scoring Categories
In standard, 5 x 5 Rotisserie League Fantasy Baseball, the scoring categories are usually:

• Hitting: Runs, Home Runs, RBI, Stolen Bases & Batting Average
• Pitching: Wins, Saves, Strikeouts, Earned Run Average and Walks/Hits per Innings Pitched