minimum number required

[viper]

What is the minimum number of pitchers needed to run a 15 team/ 7 pitcher per team CVRC run. I've done a trial and error and it seems that the macro goes nuts as I lower the number of pitchers in the pool. At some point around a pool double the target amount, the pool goes nuts.

I ask this because the dollars assigned to strikeouts seems wrong. With the 460 man pool, Smoltz with 91 Ks has a $0 K value. Each additional K adds $0.151 to the players value.

As I reduce the player pool to eliminate all those worthless middlemen, the $0 amount goes to 102 and the $/additional K drops to about .75.

I'm not trying to calculate a dollar value for an auction but to get a teired type ranking for an NFBC style draft. I want to pull out non-starters and just run with a player pool of starters and potential starters.

[Todd Zola]

You are totally skewing the replacement level of strikeouts and the number of useful strikeouts by doing it that way.

[viper]

but why should a 40 inning lefty specialist impact a starting pitcher?

I started doing this because I play in an auction league where IP replace K as a category. There is also an 1100 IP minimum. Needless to say the RP strategy is ancient history. Easy to do using CVRC by replacing the K column values with IP. The deal is that this is a 10-team AL league and, aside from closers, at most 10 other MR are ever drafted and all for $1 to $3. I really want my pool to be smaller and pretty much without middle relievers.

If you want to get a list of starters only, it seems the CVRC concept overvalues Ks and it seems to be due to these 40 inning guys. Reducing the weighting is wrong as it makes a 200K pitcher to close to the 100K pitcher.

Suggestions?