Tipping contests are competitions to pick the winners of games, correct ?
Rotisserie is more concerned with player statistics than picking wins or losses by team.
You draft a team of <I>X</I> number of players and it competes in 10 categories, i.e., homeruns, pitcher wins, etc. The draft is automated so you don't need to spend a lot of time or effort in preparing if you don't want to. Alternately, you can rerank all the available players (the website gives all players a default rank), determining the order you wish to value them in for drafting purposes.
As Major League baseball plays their season, your players accumulate statistics based on their daily performance.
You score points by finishing ahead of other teams in each of the categories.
For example, if there are ten teams in the league and you finish in first place in home runs, you score ten points, but if you finish in 4th place in pitcher wins, you score 7 points in that category. It's a simple 1 point for last place, 2 points for second to last place, etc up to 10 for first (assuming a ten team league).
Your cumulative score in the ten categories at year end determines your finish.
During the season, you can make trades with other managers, add unowned players to your team, and change the active players each day.
Only players active on your daily roster score points. By acquiring a new player, you do not get his performance to date; he only accumulates statistics for you from the day you make him active on your team.
Therefore, players that are capable of scoring points in several categories are more valuable than those who are helpful in one category but drag down your team results in other categories.
Much of the strategy involved (because there are not many players who help in all categories) is determining which categories to "make a run at" by playing your players that are strong in certain areas.
Beating the second place team by 1 homerun gives you the same 10 points for first place that beating them by 100 homeruns does.
It's all a balancing act that requires research, following the results each day, and making the right decisions as often as possible. Do this enough and you can compete.
This is the concept in a nutshell, a rather large nutshell in any case.
Feel free to post any other questions here or to send me PMs or messages to my Funtrivia mailbox.
WorldB / Rick
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