Weekly vs. daily lineups

[SenorSmoke]

Do most of your leagues use daily or weekly lineup changes?

We're going into our 12th year and for the duration of our league we've used daily lineups. To compete you really, really need to manage your roster every single day rotating starters/relievers and hitters to get the most possible innings or ABs depending on off-days, injuries, etc. As a rule I've always liked this flexibility, but as a 42-year-old Dad with less and less time I'm hoping to convince our league to move to weekly lineups this year. Just curious what the "norm" is around here, if any, or if there any big downsides to weekly.

[Hammer]

we use weekly and while daily lineups are more reflective of baseball and better in terms of not getting stuck with a zero for the week, they are also a lot more demanding on owners and some complain too time consuming.

[amcg]

Funnily enough, my fledgling league here in Dublin is probably moving to daily lineups this year. I'd started it with weekly lineups but a lot of these guys have never known anything but daily, so want to change. I've put it up to the vote anyway.

I actually much prefer weekly, with that one big strategic decisions to take each Sunday night, particularly on the pitching side.

[DJBeasties]

My main league is daily and we only have owners who can hack the day to day. Otherwise, peace out. I don't like weekly myself because I feel too detached.

[fuhrdog]

Both leagues are daily and i like it much more than weekly. It takes me maybe a minute or two to set lineups.

[Erik]

My main league is weekly because there are some long-time owners who would just freak out if they had to do daily. Heck, there's one guy who still phones in his FA bids to the commish because he's almost never online.

I get my daily lineup-decision fix from Mock One and any other ad hoc free leagues I end up in.

[kldub4life]

I've done both and I much prefer weekly.

Too much comes up in life on a daily basis to make sure you can set your lineups daily.

In my opinion setting lineups once a week makes for competition based on knowledge and strategy more so than time spent online and manipulating games played and the schedule. (it's one reason I don't play fantasy basketball anymore.)

A couple years ago one of my prime leagues actually had a twice weekly schedule (M-Th and Fri-Sun) it worked reasonably well but went back weekly when we changed to CBSSports as our host site.

[MagSeven]

I'm in one of each. The daily is fun, but with my job I can't get access to the site to make transactions timely.