I must say the I'm totally satisfied with this league. ESPN has a leg-up on Yahoo when it comes to fantasy baseball because scoring structure is more like traditional h2h fantasy football. In your weekly match-up versus the other player, the result is either one win or one loss. It's that simple. Yahoo's h2h set-up does not do this. Instead you compete separately for each stat category: hits, runs, home runs, steals, wins, losses, saves, etc. You either win or lose in each category. These wins and losses are added to your total for the week and for the season. For example, your match-up for one week could result in 6 wins and 4 losses. Your year-end record could be something like 144-56, if you're lucky.
Yahoo's h2h scoring system doesn't feel genuine like fantasy football, which results in only one win or one loss for that week. It's hard to tell what you're worth in the standings, difficult to strategize and way too overwhelming for beginners.
ESPN's fantasy h2h baseball works a lot like traditional fantasy football. Each stat that a player can record is worth a set amount of points, for example a hit is 1, a home run is 4, a win is 10 and a save is 5. All of these points are added to your total for the week. If you have more points then you opponent for that week you get a win. If you have less then it's a loss.
I don't know exactly ESPN has been hosting fantasy baseball this way. I recommend it over Yahoo. If you are looking for the second best fantasy game after traditional head-to-head fantasy football then, in my opinion, it's ESPN h2h Fantasy Baseball.
I'm excited. My team "The Essex Meat Sox" are currently 5-2. So far I'm winning this week 239-230. I got first pick in the draft and landed some really good players: (in draft order) Pujols, Hamilton, Pedroia, Kershaw, Weaver, Jimenez, Santana, Jeter, Berkman, Shields. Hopefully I can hold this team together and get in to the playoffs for a chance to win a cool 100 units.
