Shallow vs Deep leagues, number of players drafted

How many players are typically drafted in "shallow" leagues? What would you consider standard settings for a 10-team league that makes it shallow? How about "deep" leagues? What sort of roster setup would be required for a 10-team league to be deep?

I ask because I'm in a 8-team league where 224 players will be rostered. Will that be deep, shallow or somewhere in the middle?

[james33]

Id call a deep league a 12-team NL-only with 23-25 starting spots and 13-17 reserve spots.

And shallow would be 10-team that uses both nl and al.

I'd even call shallow a 16-team that uses nl and al

[james33]

To make a 10 team deep, it has to be either A.L. or N.L. only.

25 man rosters with 15 man reserves, and all reserves have to be from NL or AL major/minor league affiliates (no drafting international/college/hs) would make it reasonably deep. Add a 5-man DL to make it deep like a 12-team league.

[swampdragon]

8 team league is very shallow - 12 team mixed is a standard shallow league

There are many here that play 23 man roster 12 team - single league NL or AL - those are considered deep leagues

but play whatever type you want to play - all of the other owners will have the same advantages/disadvantages

[Sharky]

8 team league is very shallow - 12 team mixed is a standard shallow league

There are many here that play 23 man roster 12 team - single league NL or AL - those are considered deep leagues

but play whatever type you want to play - all of the other owners will have the same advantages/disadvantages

Exactly. On all counts.

[The Dane]

To answer your question, yes, your league is shallow. That doesn't necessarily mean it's easy, but it's certainly not deep by any measure. For an 8-team AL/NL only league, you'd have to draft 336 players and have rosters of at least 42 to even approach "deep." For a mixed league, you'd need twice that, rosters of 84, 672 players drafted. Silliness.

10-12 team AL/NL only is deep.
20-24 team mixed is deep.

[mjl]

8 team league is very shallow - 12 team mixed is a standard shallow league

There are many here that play 23 man roster 12 team - single league NL or AL - those are considered deep leagues

but play whatever type you want to play - all of the other owners will have the same advantages/disadvantages

I suspect he's asking more from the standpoint of seeing articles on fantasy sites that say "Deep League Sleepers" that recommend someone like a Tyler Goeddel or Travis Shaw and wondering if he should be grabbing them.

So you're playing the standard Roto 23-man active roster and 5 reserves, right? Really shallow leagues are like the Yahoo/ESPN defaults - Yahoo uses 12 teams, one catcher, no MI/CI, three OF, two UT, and eight pitchers. So you're deeper than that, but not by a ton. I think yours still qualifies as shallow. As Swamp said, that's not inherently bad or anything though.

I would generally define "deep" as "hitters without a starting job will need to be drafted". In a 12-mixed with the normal 23 actives, you don't need to do that. Around 18-team mixed or 10-team only is where it starts getting deep.

[spacez52]

Thanks for all the feedback. Having played in 10-12 team leagues I was just wondering how the slight increase in roster size affected this league. I figured it was still "shallow". I know there is no right way, I was just wondering.