Rotisserie 5x5 Standings

Rotisserie — usually shortened to roto — is the original fantasy baseball scoring system, and the most popular variant is 5x5. There are no head-to-head matchups. Instead, your team accumulates stats across the entire season, and at the end of the year you're ranked 1 through N (typically 12) in each category.

The five hitting categories: home runs, RBIs, runs scored, stolen bases, and batting average. The five pitching categories: wins, strikeouts, saves, ERAEarned Run Average. Earned runs allowed per 9 innings. Lower is better; 3.00 is excellent., and WHIPWalks + Hits per Inning Pitched. Measures baserunners allowed. 1.10 is elite.. In a 12-team league, last place in a category earns 1 point, first place earns 12. Your final score is the sum across all 10 categories. Best total wins.

The strategic implication is enormous. Because there's no weekly winner, you cannot punt a bad week — every plate appearance and every inningA unit of play with a top half (visitors bat) and bottom half (home bats); a regulation game has 9. pitched compounds into your season total. This rewards roster depth and patience. A two-week slump for your stud isn't a loss in roto; it's noise that washes outThree outs end a half-inning. Recorded by strikeout, fly out, ground out, force out, or tag. across 162 games.

It also makes category balance critical. Going all-in on power hitters who hitA ball put in play that lets the batter reach base safely without an error. .240 might dominate HR and RBIRuns Batted In — a batter is credited when his at-bat causes a runner (or himself) to score. but tank your batting average — and you can't 'win' a category by 50 home runs and lose another by 0.001 in AVG. Each is worth one point.

Roto rewards the manager who builds a balanced roster, drafts for trade value, and grinds the waiver wire all summer.