I’m going to make this post short and sweet. Even though I said I wasn’t going to update my spreadsheet, I’ve changed my mind. Why, you ask? The answer is mostly simple. In fact it’s one word. Razzball Nation. Ok perhaps that was two words, but who’s counting. I’ve got two more words, Grey and Rudy. Those two SOBs have busted their nuts (did I mean tails) over the last many, many years delivering first class content to the fantasy baseball community. This is my sixth season being part of the Razzball Crew and I just wanted to do my part. And my part is very simple. While I do write a weekly post on points leagues, what everyone wants is my spreadsheet. This one’s for you Razzballers!

Sorry for the short post. Hit me up in the comments with questions.

The word on the street is that there will definitely be a 2020 season. In fact, Rob Right Said manFred said he guarantees that there will be a season. In its worst form it will be a 48-game season. The players want 89 games and the owners want 76 games. Or something along those lines. As most of you might know, the sticking point is, of course, salaries.

The salary dispute is mostly irrelevant to us. All we care about is if there will be a season. Both the NHL and NBA are returning. MLB will follow suit. MLB actually has the authority to impose a 48-game season if a deal cannot be reached. The timeline on this is not clear yet, but I’ve got to think by next week a decision has got to be made. With that in mind, we’ve got to start being proactive about what a 2020 fantasy season might look like.

After a bit of soul searching, here is what I am proposing to my primary head-to-head points league. Just to set the context our league is a ten-team league where we play two matchups each week. Our season consists of 22 weeks of regular season followed by two rounds of two-week playoff matchups. Our roster size is 30 and we can keep six players for as many years as we want. For the sake of this discussion our scoring system is irrelevant, but I do believe that it’s a bit skewed towards starting pitchers. Nonetheless it does not impact my proposal.

First order of business is the draft. Fortunately we did not hold our draft before the season was shutdown. Truth be told, no league should have held a draft. I’m a firm believer that a draft should not be held more than ten days prior to opening day. I actually prefer the seven day threshold, but ten is the max. And let’s face it, it’s 2020 and just about every draft is hosted online. There’s little to no excuse to not being able to find a day that works for everyone. We’re all busy, I know. Yadda freaking yadda.