We are still 4x4, as the original roto rule book had it...although we modified a number of categories - OBP for BA, SLG for HRs, we invented a SPEED category that counts runs and SB but subtracts HRs so that good on base skills and speed are rewarded. Wins are now Quality Starts, and interestingly, it doesn't make a big difference either way at the end of 162 games. Our studies, such as they are, show that the rankings pretty much stay the same either way for that category, but we like it this way. This year we finally broke down and included HOLDS at half the value of a SAVE.
$260 auction, AL-only, two year contracts with an option the third year. I'm currently in second and trying to make my move. It's a prize league, we meet in a living room for the auction. Best part? None of these silly playoffs. You fight all season for 1-4th place to get money, like baseball was invented to be. No weekly pairs offs. And it is amazing to me how at the end of 162 days, with thousands of hits, runs, rbis, and hundreds of saves, quality starts, etc., the championship will come down to whether Joe Slobotnik is or is not thrown out stealing on a Sunday afternoon.
Also, like the major leagues, you don't win the league your first season, You gotta pay and pay your lumps with the semblence of an expansion team, as you can't bring in your cheap good ballplayers. You alone have to pay market value for everyone your first season, unless you are lucky enough to assume a lapsed owner's league. People still join up, however, knowing this.