Stathead Sagas: Can Frontloading Innings Work?

If you play the Yahoo fantasy game, you have likely noticed a new note on your league homepage. This note asks: Why have points for my batters or pitchers stopped accumulating?

I was somewhat surprised to see this notice up on the site so early in the season. Yahoo's standard rotisserie leagues have game caps of 162 and innings caps of 1400. Nobody is hitting a game cap yet, but I suppose, technically, it would be possible to get to 1400 innings by the end of August.

I checked my five standard leagues and indeed, one of my opponents has already hit his innings cap: 1405.1 innings pitched, 86 W (second already and within striking distance for much of the league) 81 SV (good for eight points in a 12-team league), 1224 strikeouts (7.8 per nine innings; mediocre) a 3.85 ERA (just five points) and a 1.25 WHIP (six points). The owner of this team is in bad shape. His offense has a 1, 2, and 3.5 in HR, RBI and SB and with the trading deadline past, he can't use any o

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