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Keeper question... 275 payroll with 14 teams in an OBP league

Bautista 37 vs Calhoun 8 ??

Puig 20 vs Dickerson 10 ??

Other keepers above the cut line: Donaldson 20, Gomez 30, LaRoche 1, Walker 3, Sale 18, Smyly 5

Below Cut Line: Hanley 31

Thanks y'all!

Enjoy the LABR draft tonight... putting relative player ranks aside... how are you approaching team assembly this year in terms of philosophy for mixed auctions? seeing positions that are key to pay full price such as catcher? how much of an overpay are the top handful of players worth? (trout, Kers...

Todd Re: Composite Stats with the PVM method...and I guess with all methods... is there anything that can be done to account for all the non-drafted stats that will be contributed? Naturally any method based on projections will have this issue if you're ranking the drafted player pool against one an...

Thanks for the input Trav... sorry I did not mean to imply that I am assuming players would be overpriced the first hour... what i mean was that if i used for example a 69/31 split as my guideline while tweaking to come up with my auction values then before i realized that my hitters on the whole we...

Todd thanks for the help with learning the quote function I see your point with not worrying too much about the final numbers... yea the dynamics of the auction and team-building strategies are obviously paramount once you have the players compared in some way that makes sense to you. So why all the...

First... how do I quote a previous posting by using that bubble/highlight thing you guys do? Thanks Ok I hear ya on the numbers... they provide a way to rank the players and compare them as opposed to being hard and fast numbers to live and die by but... when your values are considerably off (mostly...

Great...Thanks Perry! I think I will hold onto Walkers profit then and like you said just see what Tulo, Desmond, Hanley and Zobrist cost in the auction. I just like going stars and scrubs in this 14 team format generally speaking so I was probably falling in love with having a top SS on my roster. ...

Ok... so what do you do if your league spends differently than you assign value? For example, if you assign values based on a 69/31 split yet your league spends at a 65/35 rate? Obviously your hitter prices will be high and every hitter will seem like a bargain. Meanwhile you'll get priced out of mo...

Perry I am definitely keeping LaRoche at 1 dollar... but more to what Todd said between Walker 3 and Hanley 31 he advised going with Hanley I assume bc its a mixed league and Hanleys position and elite potential. Meanwhile Walker is the more obvious profit with an estimated production level of 10 to...

Really? LaRoche has a potential value of 18 or 19 in the OBP standard value sheet for MIX 15. Walker is around 10 so I could see that one. but to really expect to do better than 17 dollar value profit? isn't that a little silly? No trade market in the league for Hanley at 31 but I know that wont mea...

This topic is intended to generate discussion for mixed league keeper auctions... and more or less for leagues that go a little deeper as my league is 14 teams with 5x5 scoring (OBP replaced AVG). With fewer than I would like value keepers I'm planning on holding more of my star players at what I co...

Haha... do you have a link to the post with the other 1,864,353 items listed? THANKS!


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Todd & Everyone: When looking at the adjustments made to value systems, regardless of which system, I was having the debate in my head of WHEN is the most appropriate time to make adjustments for Positional Scarcity. Before or After a player's value is calculated? Should the hitters stats be val...

Morning Everyone Todd can you explain how the iterative process works to arrive at the desired player pool? You earlier pointed out the other two value systems (STD and SGP) ... what is it about PVM that you believe is a better way of assigning value to players? I was reading up on STD for Avg or Ab...

Ok... well if you come up with the player pool after using the top whichever totals for each category... arent you then using some players who dont make it into the positive player values? i'm sure you know what i mean but for example Player X hits .200 with 30 steals and is in your top 196 (14 tms ...

Thanks again for the enlightenment... I was just playing around with the idea of PVM in a small example but I realized I couldnt come up with a player's value based on the final category totals from my league in 2014 because there's obviously way more stats in the final totals than what is drafted o...

First, Thanks everyone for your responses... I really appreciate the feedback and information. Todd thank you for pointing out the different valuation methods... I think I was still confused in my head between projections and valuation methods. I think I understand what you're saying about finding v...

Hey All... love this time of year when more time can be devoted to theory articles and methodology before the projections get fine tuned and draft strategy begins. I'm making a serious effort to understand the ideas behind the numbers this year... altho I'll probably still just end up taking your wo...