How to Punt a Category in Fantasy Baseball

Many fantasy baseball players try to get an advantage any way they can. One strategy that is sometimes employed to win at fantasy baseball is to forfeit one category entirely, or to “punt” it. Punting one category allows you to allocate your resources for all the other categories and to win them.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Guts

1. Choose a category that you are willing to finish last in. Most experts suggest the categories to do this best with are saves or steals.
2. Draft every position with relatively safe, strong performers.
3. Draft only high quality starters if you choose to punt saves.
4. Draft only top-notch hitters if you choose to punt steals. Players that will give you home runs, RBIs and average.

Tips & Warnings

• You can punt a category at any point in the season; you don't have to do it from the draft forward.
• If you see the strategy isn’t working once the season is underway, trade some of the top-level talent you have in abundance for the category you were punting. Basically, punt the punting strategy.
• You have to be nearly perfect in everything else if you hope to win when getting little to no points in a category.
• This strategy is not for the risk-averse.