Just walked in the door with my computer. I've got two freeze deadlines at 10 p.m. tonight, so I won't have time for any long posts in all likelihood until tomorrow. However, if you have any specific freeze questions, please hit me up either in the comments section under this post or at my Twitter account (MikeGianella) and I'll be more than happy to help.
UPDATE 3/28 - New content tonight. Promise.
3 comments:
more of an extension question than a freeze question... 12-team NL-only 5x5, inflation around 30-40%.
I'm keeping the following players in year 2 (so no raises yet):
Neil Walker $5
Rafael Furcal $15
Matt Holliday $40
Chris Young $20
Roy Halladay $42
Takashi Saito $4
and I have these guys in options years that I have to make a decision on:
Freddie Freeman $2
Colby Rasmus $5
Drew Stubbs $5
Tim Hudson $3
Ted Lilly $15
Randy Wells $2
Randy Wolf $2
questions:
Is it even worth keeping Wolf?
I was planning to give Lilly and Wells no raise, Hudson and Freeman $5, and Rasmus and Stubbs $10. Reasonable?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
- Mike
Crazy inflation question. 12-team, NL-only, $260, 14/9. I've gone with a 70/30 ($2184/$936) split for H/P. Teams are allowed to keep lots of keepers. Pitching, surprisingly, has very little inflation, but hitting? Wow. It's gotta be 80%+. Only 2/10 of the top hitters are frozen, but 29/41 of the top hitters are frozen (#42 is Chase Headley). so available talent is very top-heavy. For example, I've got Pujols into the $60s already, and I still have $200 to distribute to the available hitters.
What should I do? Should I have meaningless prices (no one will bid $75+ for Pujols, much less $65+ for Ramirez, CarGo, Tulo, etc.) that soak up inflation? Or should I move that $200 or so over to pitching, where 16/22 of the top pitchers are available, resulting in probably 30%-40% pitching inflation?
Thanks.
I hope Mike and Toz don't mind me chiming in -- I think both questions do require a little knowledge of your league-mates. eddiehawkins' league does seem to leave a bit of talent for the endgame (though some of the cheap prices must be from the reserve daraft, no?), so cutting Wolf seems appropriate. No real issue with any of the proposed raises; I'm pretty conservative (okay, stingy) with raises, so I might only give Stubbs a $5 raise.
As for T.J., it depends on whether you think someone will push Pujols above $60. If not, then definitely move the money to the pitchers (and buy Pujols!). My experience in my league has always been, the premier players just don't get bumped up as much as the inflation percentage says they should. Which, of course, means that the money gets spent on lesser players later in the auction. One reason I always seem to go stars and scrubs in keeper auctions . . .
One other thing I notice is that the mid-level players' inflation salaries are far less predictable, so do try to save a little money to try and pick off any bargains in that time before the crapshoot, in case teams with money don't have a slot for a reasonable player.
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