Regular A.L. Post-Mortem - How Good was My Auction?

In my last post, I looked at the players I bought or nearly bought in my non-expert A.L.-only league. So how did I actually do?

Gianella Quints, Billy Almon Brown Graduate

#	Player	$	Sal	+/-	Bid
C	Brandon Inge	$13	$5F	8	$6
C	Miguel Olivo	$15	$3F	12	$6
1B	Carlos Pena	$21	$15F	6	$20
2B	Akinori Iwamura	$8	$13	-5	$10
SS	Derek Jeter	$38	$28	+10	$24
3B	Alex Rodriguez	$30	$30	0	$28
CO	Wilson Betemit	-$1	$1F	-2	$4
MI	Cesar Izturis	$7	$7	0	$7
OF	Pat Burrell	$7	$20	-13	$16
OF	Raj Davis	$28	$3	25	$4
OF	Ken Griffey Jr.	$7	$9	-2	$7
OF	Jose Guillen	$6	$9F	-3	$17
OF	Franklin Gutierrez	$23	$10F	13	$11
DH	Travis Hafner	$11	$9	2	$10
P	Juan Cruz	-$2	$2	-4	$4
P	Felix Hernandez	$39	$28	11	$20
P	Glen Perkins	-$5	$2	-7	$3
P	Fernando Rodney	$21	$1F	20	$8
P	CC Sabathia	$31	$42	-11	$32
P	John Smoltz	-$9	$6	-15	$6
P	Russ Springer*	-$1	FA		$1
P	Matt Thornton	$16	$1	15	$3
P	Chien-Ming Wang	-$16	$9	-25	$14
	Total	$287	$253	+34	$261

*replaced Clay Buchholz, who had to be waived.

I actually didn't realize that I had purchased such a strong team coming out of the auction.

To offer some context, inflation was projected out to about 27.8%. My team had $53 in salary for $86 in projected value. The $207 I had left to spend would have bought me $162 in value...or $248 total.

So the column on the far right tells us that I did $13 better in terms of the projected stats. The problem, of course, is that a $261 team is a .500 team, or a 6th/7th place team in terms of Roto.

The $287 figure in the $ column tells me that I exceeded expectations. The +/- tells the story. Despite Wang, I managed to buy a pretty good team. Having six players with double digit profits will do that. Davis and Rodney were huge. Even though Felix didn't turn a bigger profit, getting an $11 profit from a $28 pitcher is key.

On the downside, a $287 team won't win in a carryover league. The right combination of trades needs to be made in order to push a team over the top. In my next post, I'll look at what I did here and why, and how that contributed to my non-victory.