H2H Or Roto: The People Decide

Dear Fantasy Baseball Players,

Today's article will be a little more of a twist then you are used to seeing. Yes, this topic is always discussed, but which is the better brand of fantasy game-playing: Head to Head or Roto?

Personally, I usually play both of these. This year I will have four teams; two will be H2H, two will be Roto.

In recent discussions I've seen, its been Roto being the one on top, while H2H is left in the cold and known as a little man's game. I can go either way on this topic.

First I will start with H2H. H2H, for me, is overall the most fun and an intriguing setting in fantasy sports. There are many ways you can play it. I'm the one who takes everything seriously, and wants to get any competitive advantage to win.

So yes, I do stream pretty a decent amount of time. I usually do it to pick up the hottest hitter available daily, or maybe there is a Andy LaRoche (just an example), who hits over .300 against righty pitchers this season, and I want to get those extra stats into my win total.

However, the reason I think this is most fun is because you have to be a strategist, always have to take the "risk for reward" so to speak. Sometimes it works out for you, sometimes it doesn't.

For example, it was at the trading deadline last year and I was needing one more SP to take me to the top. There was one pitcher who caught my eye: Tim Lincecum (Note: This is a non-keeper league).

The guy was solid with pitching with Johan, C.C Sabathia, and Rich Harden leading the campaign. He was very weak in a few positions on the hitting side, mainly at OF. So I wound up getting Lincy by dealing Carl Crawford and Matt Kemp. He was set at OF then while I got the pitcher I needed. Two weeks later after the deadline, Crawford goes down with the injury, and is out for the rest of the season.

Now its between Lincy and Kemp. At the end of the season who won this deal? In the end, while I won the title, he as knocked out in the second round of the playoffs (and he had a bye). The point I make here is H2H is all fun and games, but in the end you have to be the ultimate opportunist (will use a WWE term there).

I will be short and sweet with Roto. I will give the doubt here, Roto is the more challenging system. No streaming, no risk for reward type atmosphere. Only way you win roto (my beliefs) is you have to be a skillful owner in all aspects. There are no easy ways around Roto—unless you're in an inactive public league.

I am going on my fifth year in fantasy, second year in roto. I am eager to win my roto leagues this year. Out of my 10 H2H seasons: 8 titles, one second place finish, one fourth place. Roto, unfortunately, no championship thus far, as I finished with a third and fifth place finish in my leagues.

Enough about me. I made this to be a discussion with all those diehard fantasy players out there.

Which one do you think is the better setting, as well as your favorite one to play? Give as much feedback as you wish, and lets get this chat going!

P.S I talked about H2H more as that is the one I've had more experience with.

Matt Miselis is a baseball and football writer for bleacherreport.com