Value targets in Points leagues, 2025

Before the advent of sabermetric categories, fantasy baseball began by focusing on easy counting stats in games like Home Run Derby. These early games featured shallow leagues and lineups with familiar players. Most importantly, they made it easy to feel success with each homer or pitcher’s win scoring a specific number of points without much statistical analyses.

Points leagues remain popular due to this ease of calculating success. While some leagues have utilized technology to have dozens of factors affecting points with negative and fractional scoring, the main points contests and the old time “sittin' around the bar” leagues feature the simple emotion that mirrors fantasy football. A homer run scores six points like a...

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