Everybody, welcome to the Rotoire Fantasy Baseball podcast, brought to you by always, as always, by the folks from Winbet, W-Y-N-N-B-E-T. Jeff Erickson here. And my guest today is the great Jeff Ponce. You can follow him on Twitter at Prospect Jesus. You can get his work at Prospects Live. This summer, he did a lot of work covering the Cape Codley at Perfect Game USA.

And, of course, you can hear them on the Razball podcast with Gray as well. So, Jeff, I want to thank you so much for coming on board today. Thanks a lot, Jeff, for just a couple of Jeffs on a pod. Yes, that's right. That's right. And, you know, it's a fun time of year. you're in Tout Wars head-to-head, which means it's playoff time in all head-to-head leagues right now.

Head-to-head is like means it's playoff time in all head-to-head leagues right now.

Head-to-head is like a short fall in my game. I don't really play any, but it's wildly popular. And I feel like I probably should be doing a lot more of that. But I know how big it is in our industry. on people, especially if anybody that's come over recently,

they probably their first introduction is in head-to-head fantasy.

Yeah, especially I think, you if anybody that's come over recently, they probably their first introduction is in head-to-head fantasy.

Yeah, especially I think, you know, it's a format that translates well from fantasy football.

Yeah.

You know, it's it's a format that I think a majority of folks playing fantasy that are out there are really familiar with it, right?

They're used to players getting points

per game, totaling up, and, you know, sort of playing it that way. You know, I had originally

come into fantasy baseball, I want to say, you know, 2003 was probably the first competitive

league I ever had. It was a bunch of guys from work in college,

and it was a head-to-head categories league.

And I had kind of played up in that until probably about 2009, 2010,

where I got involved with like the RCLs over at Razball,

and it had been pretty much a roto guy,

which I still feel is probably my strongest game.

But over the last couple of years,

I slid into playing into more head-to-head points leagues. And my home league I actually got

invited into, probably been playing on that now for about six or seven years, is a head-to-head

points league. And there were some of the early adopters. And I really didn't like the format at first.

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