Welcome back RotoBallers! Spring Training is in full swing, and fantasy baseball draft season is about to pick up in a big way. Below you'll find our MLB team's updated 2022 fantasy baseball points league rankings, specifically catered and adjusted for for points leagues and head-to-head (H2H) points league formats.
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Today we'll be taking a look at our updated points league rankings, just released by RotoBaller's lead fantasy baseball points analyst Nicklaus Gaut. Here at RotoBaller, we feel that fantasy baseball points leagues and H2H points formats are inappropriately underserved by the fantasy baseball community and other fantasy baseball platforms. Here at RotoBaller we really take pride in our in-depth points leagues articles, tools and analysis. All through the preseason and MLB season we are publishing fantasy baseball rankings, tools articles, sleepers, targets and avoids -- all geared towards fantasy baseball points and H2H points leagues. Dig in!
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Top 500 Fantasy Baseball Points Rankings
These rankings are for points and head-to-head points leagues. You can also see our early 5x5 mixed league roto rankings.
Before we get to the H2H points rankings themselves, let's quickly review points leagues and how they are different than other formats. Typically, points leagues have different league settings and scoring formats than other fantasy baseball leagues. Different MLB stats and categories are assigned different point values, and those can vary by individual league settings. Those different point buckets are then added up over the course of a scoring period or season.
In many cases, hitters who walk more and strikeout less are preferred for points leagues. Also, many league formats tend to give more weight to pitchers than normal as they can easily accrue points through categories like Innings Pitched. These are the general frameworks that we use for our points league rankings below, and explain why they look different than more standard 5x5 roto fantasy baseball rankings.
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