Looking forward to the changes.

I'm not worried about the high-priced players.  After three or four salary changes, we can see how that's affecting the high priced players, both in terms of salary and in usage.  If things get out of whack, they can make additional tweaks.  Let's see how this plays out.

Posted by tzentmeyer on 12/18/2015 3:27:00 PM (view original):

We have finalized how we would like to proceed with dynamic player pricing.

 

Here's our plan:

• we will update player salaries based on draft usage every four months adhering to a set of announced dates (below). This provides a larger timeframe for player usage accumulation and provide owners more time to react and plan for salary changes.
• draft usage will be weighted and broken down by 0-60 days prior, 61-120 days prior and 121-180 days prior.
• player usage will be based on Open League usage only
• we will maintain history of player salaries and make available in player profile along with some additional research pages
• all unfilled Open League teams will be sent back to Draft Center at time of salary update
• all unfilled Theme Leagues will remain untouched so theme commissioners can handle accordingly.
• theme leagues will NOT have option to pick salary set to use.  With the reduction of processing every four months, we feel this is no longer required.
• underlying AAA player quality will adjust with pricing changes

This decision was reached after evaluating the posts made in this thread. Thank you again to all of you that contributed.

In reviewing the salary formula and the player sim data, we did discover and/or correct a few data issues.  This will be reflected in the first pricing update. This included mapping the Houston Astros from the 2013/2014 seasons to the AL (which affects normalization data and salaries) and correcting some deadball era pitcher normalization numbers (which also affects salaries).

 

In general, though, we believe our salary formula is very, very solid. We looked at players in chunks based on salary range and compared their sim ratio results with actual ratios. The deviations were pretty consistent.

We took a few of the "why don't you improve the salary formula to match the sim results" posts very seriously.  We compared salary driven by sim results with salary driven by actual results.  This yielded many instances of players performing better than or similar to some of the existing "cookies" but used much more sparingly.  Dynamic pricing will impact cookie trends, no doubt.

 

Salary Release Dates:

• Tuesday, February 9, 2016
• Tuesday, June 7, 2016
• Tuesday, October 11, 2016

We will set the next round of dates as we reach October. We will continue to evaluate throughout the year to make sure all is working as expected.

Posted by dahsdebater on 12/18/2015 3:54:00 PM (view original):
By removing the ability to use original pricing in themes and basing pricing exclusively on open leagues, I think you're exacerbating the problem I brought up in the original thread.  The most expensive players - players who are essentially unaffordable on competitive open league teams - are going to see a price decline because most people won't be drafting them in OLs.  That will make the balance off, however, for higher-cap leagues, particularly in the vicinity of $110 to $120 million where you expect to see some OL-type players and some '20 Ruth, '00 Pedro types as well.

Posted by teamhydro on 12/19/2015 4:03:00 PM (view original):
I thought admin had said in a previous post that the price fluctuation for player salaries would be limited to +/- 10% of base?  If that is true, I think some of the concerns being expressed about the high-salary players eventually being grossly under priced is unfounded.

Posted by karcher on 12/19/2015 11:14:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tzentmeyer on 12/18/2015 3:27:00 PM (view original):

We have finalized how we would like to proceed with dynamic player pricing.

 

Here's our plan:

• we will update player salaries based on draft usage every four months adhering to a set of announced dates (below). This provides a larger timeframe for player usage accumulation and provide owners more time to react and plan for salary changes.
• draft usage will be weighted and broken down by 0-60 days prior, 61-120 days prior and 121-180 days prior.
• player usage will be based on Open League usage only
• we will maintain history of player salaries and make available in player profile along with some additional research pages
• all unfilled Open League teams will be sent back to Draft Center at time of salary update
• all unfilled Theme Leagues will remain untouched so theme commissioners can handle accordingly.
• theme leagues will NOT have option to pick salary set to use.  With the reduction of processing every four months, we feel this is no longer required.
• underlying AAA player quality will adjust with pricing changes

This decision was reached after evaluating the posts made in this thread. Thank you again to all of you that contributed.

In reviewing the salary formula and the player sim data, we did discover and/or correct a few data issues.  This will be reflected in the first pricing update. This included mapping the Houston Astros from the 2013/2014 seasons to the AL (which affects normalization data and salaries) and correcting some deadball era pitcher normalization numbers (which also affects salaries).

 

In general, though, we believe our salary formula is very, very solid. We looked at players in chunks based on salary range and compared their sim ratio results with actual ratios. The deviations were pretty consistent.

We took a few of the "why don't you improve the salary formula to match the sim results" posts very seriously.  We compared salary driven by sim results with salary driven by actual results.  This yielded many instances of players performing better than or similar to some of the existing "cookies" but used much more sparingly.  Dynamic pricing will impact cookie trends, no doubt.

 

Salary Release Dates:

• Tuesday, February 9, 2016
• Tuesday, June 7, 2016
• Tuesday, October 11, 2016

We will set the next round of dates as we reach October. We will continue to evaluate throughout the year to make sure all is working as expected.

I have an good idea .. make a shortstop thats rated A/A worth some thing .. not something that makes over 50 errors .. every one would not use Howard Johnson because he plays 162 games and makes 0 errors ..I am fine with the price thing to stop the use of the same players but you need to look at why the same players are being used .. you have a major glitch in the game and that is a major one that needs to be fixed too....   so please fix this as well....