Without question, the big Fantasy Baseball story this year has been the inconsistency of the starting pitching, not only in this game but in the Yahoo game as well.

Here's a commparison for the four of us who played last year - PL, JL, JG, and SC, and TM who started late and DM who isn't playing this year - at more or less of the same point last season:

(Note: I'm not counting LZ because she really hasn't played more than 3 or 4 days or so.)

Code:
        Last Year                     This Year
     W-L   E.R.A.  Pts.  FPPG    W-L   E.R.A.  Pts.  FPPG
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PL  18-12   3.41   559   18.6   19-11   4.21   421   14.0
JL  23- 7   3.09   608   20.3   16-14   3.82   456   15.2
JG  21-10   2.95   573   18.5   15-16   4.49   339   10.9
SC  20- 9   3.29   551   19.0   15-11   4.18   359   13.8
TM   2- 2   3.50    52   13.0   21- 9   3.48   516   17.2
DM  19-10   3.49   528   18.2
DC                              22- 8   3.66   479   16.0
CC                              18-13   3.79   452   14.6
DB                              20-10   3.96   436   14.5
GG                              19-12   4.32   354   11.4
Everyone who played both years is doing considerably worse this year (except for TM whose sample size is way too small), and the only players who are doing as well this season as we kinda did last season are maybe DC and CC.

"Difficult....not impossible"