FORMATS

Formats & Scoring

We read scoring the way the rules document writes it, not the way a single-sport habit suggests.

Last reviewed September 30, 2026

A scoreboard clock on a gym wall, counting minutes and seconds for home and visitor. — Scoring is the part managers argue about before the season and count after it.

Scoring and roster rules, explained by what they actually reward. A multi-sport league cannot borrow a single-sport template: the categories have to balance against each other, or one sport quietly decides the title while the other two supply noise.

This league answers that in a way worth copying or arguing with. Football is played head-to-head over a thirteen-week regular season and a three-week playoff, and it is not a points-per-reception format. Baseball is five-by-five rotisserie with on-base percentage in place of batting average. Basketball is eight-category rotisserie. Each of the three seasons is then scored on its own: the winner of a league takes 14 points, last place takes 1, and the season totals add up, so a perfect calendar year is 42 points.

What follows from that arithmetic is the interesting part. A manager who finishes mid-table in all three sports beats one who wins a title and finishes last twice, which changes how a roster is built in the first place: depth across three sports is worth more than a single dominant team. The pages in this section take the rules one at a time — category choices, roster limits, the effect of swapping batting average for on-base percentage — and show what each one does to the standings rather than restating the rule book.

How this league scores

NFL: normal head-to-head format, normal NFL scoring rules re: yards, 4 points for TD pass, 6 for TD run or catch, etc. Straight wins and losses per week. 13 weeks of regular season, then 3 weeks of playoffs (6 teams), same as regular NFL fantasy leagues (Week 17 doesn’t count). NOT PPR
MLB: 5 x 5 roto, except OBP instead of AVG. So HR/RBI/Runs/SB/OBP, plus Wins/K/Saves/ERA/WHIP
NBA: normal 8-category roto: points, rebs, assists, steals, blocks, threes, FT%, FG%

Source: the league rules document. Quoted as written — nothing is paraphrased and nothing is added.

In this section

01Multi-Sport Fantasy Leagues, Explained№ 35 min readWe run one competition across three sports, so here is how the format works before you argue about the scoring.

A ballpark scoreboard showing balls, strikes and outs above the outfield fence.

3 02Roto and Head-to-Head in the Same League№ 24 min readWe score weekly wins and season-long tallies in the same league, and the two systems do not measure the same thing.

A college basketball player driving to the basket past a defender.

2 03OBP Instead of Average: One Category, a Different League№ OBP4 min readWe score on-base percentage instead of batting average, and that one column rewrites the hitter pool.MLB

An infielder throwing across the diamond at a ballpark, outfield advertising boards behind him.

OBP 04Turning Three Seasons Into One Table№ 33 min readWe turn three season tables into one number, and the arithmetic is the part managers misread.