Welcome back RotoBallers. Today we are here to start looking at points leagues and head-to-head (H2H) formats. In this column, you will find our staff's preliminary 2019 fantasy baseball points league rankings for January and the top 420 players. Over the next few days, we will also be publishing individual tiered rankings analysis columns for each position. Stay tuned.

Three of our lead fantasy baseball analysts - Nick Mariano, JB Branson and Bill Dubiel - have analyzed the MLB offseason moves and are ready to rock. Below you will find their consensus staff ranks for 2019, which will be updated regularly up until opening day. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, or let them know how much you love or hate their rankings.

In case you haven't noticed, we've already been cranking out all sorts of 2019 fantasy baseball rankings at RotoBaller HQ including a positional breakdown with tiered analysis for 5x5 mixed leagues. It's only January, but you can already find preliminary staff rankings for mixed leagues, points leagues, AL/NL only leagues, dynasty leagues, top 2019 prospects, dynasty prospects and more.

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Top 420 Rankings: Points Leagues (January)

These staff rankings are as of January 21st, 2019. They are for head-to-head points leagues, and will be updated regularly through Opening Day.

Typically, points leagues have different league settings and scoring formats than most. Different stats and categories are assigned different point values, and that can vary by individual league settings. These different point buckets are then added up over the course of a scoring period or season.

In many cases, hitters who walk more and strikeout less are preferred for points leagues. Also, many league formats tend to give more weight to pitchers than normal as they can easily accrue points through categories like Innings Pitched. These are the general frameworks that we use for our ranks below.

You can also read more about typical points league scoring settings and draft strategies.

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