I've downloaded the new salaries spreadsheets and am doing comparisons with the old salaries.  I am using this thread to post some of my findings.

There are four hitters and seven pitchers who saw the maximum 10% increase.

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1901 Nap Lajoie	14,143,902	15,558,292	1,414,390	10.0%
1980 George Brett	9,306,245	10,236,870	930,625	10.0%
1989 Howard Johnson	5,387,622	5,926,384	538,762	10.0%
1992 Bip Roberts	4,397,784	4,837,562	439,778	10.0%

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1908 Addie Joss	12,778,253	14,056,078	1,277,825	10.0%
2000 Pedro Martinez	11,707,138	12,877,852	1,170,714	10.0%
1995 Greg Maddux	10,842,285	11,926,514	1,084,229	10.0%
1888 Elton Chamberlain	6,153,872	6,769,259	615,387	10.0%
2003 Eric Gagne	5,463,221	6,009,543	546,322	10.0%
1990 Dennis Eckersley	4,293,010	4,722,311	429,301	10.0%
1918 Fred Toney	4,203,375	4,623,712	420,337	10.0%

Most of these are not surprising.  But 1901 Lajoie?  I find it hard to believe that open leagues are using a $14M batter that frequently.  This must be a mistake.

They changed their plan to include theme league usage as well as OLs.

I really don't like seeing Lajoie, Brett, Pedro, Maddux, Gagne, and Eck going up.  They weren't underpriced.  They were just the best players at thin positions, so they get used a lot in high cap leagues.  Has nothing to do with their value being off.  Honestly, Lajoie was a very bad value to start with, and Brett wasn't great.

Joss, Toney, Chamberlain, Johnson, and Roberts seem more like the target demographics - guys who perform better in the sim than their pricetags would indicate.  I don't see the rest of those guys as fitting into this demographic.

I am having difficulty proving that the salary changes have a net effect of zero.  I'm not sure how they are handling players with multiple teams in the same year.  If I assume they only count one combined version of that player, then I get the following results...

39,858 Total Hitters
    9,506 increase salary  (+105,507,108 million or 11,099 per player)
  29,829 decrease salary  (-108,333,183 million or -3,632 per player)
       523  same salary
Total salary difference: -$2,826,075

28,585 Total Pitchers
    5,149 increase salary   (+58,312,570 million or 11,325 per player)
  23,347 decrease salary   (-52,316,848 million or 2,241 per player)
         89 same salary
Total salary difference:  +$8,717,737

Overall salary difference: +$5,891,662

If I include all versions of multi-team players, then the overall salary difference is -$26,065,742 (so this clearly isn't what they are doing).

Not sure either.  At a guess:

-- Something wacky with the multiple-team players...maybe they only looked at the partials?
-- An issue with the low-end...since you can't go below $200K, maybe some players got truncated at 200K even though the formula would have put them below?  So a player who was at 205K and was never used might have been scheduled to go down 10%, to $185K, but got truncated to $200K?  

In any case, a net increase of $6M across 68000 players is about $88 per player...close enough to zero in my book given the salary ranges we are talking about.

Interesting to note that the vast vast majority of players saw their salaries decrease...which is what would one have expected, but runs counter to the "world is ending" complaints we see in the other thread.

Another note.  Pretty much all of the %decreases are between 0.1% and 0.3% EXCEPT for the catchers.  Here are the biggest decreases in salary for catchers.

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1990 Chris Hoiles	1,117,626	570,411	-547,215	-49.0%
1956 Bobby Hofman	373,317	207,560	-165,757	-44.4%
1965 Smoky Burgess	989,416	553,383	-436,033	-44.1%
2008 Johnny Estrada	408,669	241,463	-167,206	-40.9%
1920 Lena Styles	400,798	236,867	-163,931	-40.9%
1970 Jim Campanis	642,657	385,563	-257,094	-40.0%
1991 Tom Lampkin	436,998	268,269	-168,729	-38.6%
1947 Billy Sullivan	686,348	428,763	-257,585	-37.5%
1980 Craig Stimac	1,036,091	665,875	-370,216	-35.7%
1979 Ray Fosse	473,473	306,051	-167,422	-35.4%

Here is a list of pitchers at 5.0%+ increases...

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1908 Addie Joss	12,778,253	14,056,078	1,277,825	10.0%
2000 Pedro Martinez	11,707,138	12,877,852	1,170,714	10.0%
1995 Greg Maddux	10,842,285	11,926,514	1,084,229	10.0%
2003 Eric Gagne	5,463,221	6,009,543	546,322	10.0%
1990 Dennis Eckersley	4,293,010	4,722,311	429,301	10.0%
2012 Craig Kimbrel	3,884,821	4,268,537	383,716	9.9%
1967 Cisco Carlos	1,938,932	2,102,812	163,880	8.5%
2010 Hong-Chih Kuo	3,398,795	3,677,746	278,951	8.2%
1988 Bob Milacki	1,231,122	1,327,369	96,247	7.8%
1914 Dutch Leonard	8,905,191	9,585,211	680,020	7.6%
1918 Jake Northrop	2,234,464	2,394,943	160,479	7.2%
1915 Pete Alexander	16,221,577	17,348,634	1,127,057	6.9%
1908 Elmer Steele	3,799,703	4,054,701	254,998	6.7%
1915 Tim McCabe	1,476,708	1,572,607	95,899	6.5%
2013 Josh Zeid	390,020	414,291	24,271	6.2%
2013 Koji Uehara	4,701,441	4,992,537	291,096	6.2%
2008 Mariano Rivera	3,784,493	4,010,451	225,958	6.0%
1909 Ed Summers	7,770,317	8,234,075	463,758	6.0%
2009 Mike Adams	2,569,430	2,716,583	147,153	5.7%
2013 Jarred Cosart	1,294,365	1,368,171	73,806	5.7%
1910 Ed Walsh	15,524,600	16,396,300	871,700	5.6%
1968 Bob Gibson	12,216,556	12,894,242	677,686	5.5%
1999 Billy Wagner	4,314,571	4,551,975	237,404	5.5%
1916 Ferdie Schupp	6,048,685	6,379,390	330,705	5.5%
2013 Jose Cisnero	569,834	600,315	30,481	5.3%
1913 Walter Johnson	16,372,767	17,221,230	848,463	5.2%
2013 Hector Ambriz	271,621	285,520	13,899	5.1%
1909 Christy Mathewson	11,872,286	12,477,141	604,855	5.1%
1924 Babe Adams	1,480,431	1,555,009	74,578	5.0%
2013 Josh Fields	634,597	666,242	31,645	5.0%

Here is a list of hitters at 5.0%+ increases..

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1901 Nap Lajoie	14,143,902	15,558,292	1,414,390	10.0%
1980 George Brett	9,306,245	10,236,870	930,625	10.0%
1989 Howard Johnson	5,387,622	5,926,384	538,762	10.0%
1992 Bip Roberts	4,397,784	4,837,562	439,778	10.0%
1927 Lou Gehrig	13,669,251	14,973,369	1,304,118	9.5%
1980 Miguel Dilone	4,387,671	4,805,975	418,304	9.5%
1911 Ty Cobb	12,571,648	13,755,639	1,183,991	9.4%
1886 King Kelly	10,629,733	11,591,130	961,397	9.0%
2010 Brad Ausmus	200,000	216,683	16,683	8.3%
1987 Vince Coleman	4,240,214	4,585,196	344,982	8.1%
1924 Rogers Hornsby	13,189,968	14,238,801	1,048,833	8.0%
1941 Ted Williams	12,722,311	13,681,636	959,325	7.5%
1921 Babe Ruth	17,817,715	19,160,938	1,343,223	7.5%
1975 Gary Carter	3,936,483	4,229,073	292,590	7.4%
1923 Babe Ruth	17,302,114	18,575,156	1,273,042	7.4%
2009 Ben Zobrist	4,669,972	5,011,712	341,740	7.3%
1894 Hugh Duffy	13,583,300	14,542,722	959,422	7.1%
1899 John McGraw	8,398,716	8,988,009	589,293	7.0%
1986 Tim Raines	6,059,031	6,465,703	406,672	6.7%
1956 Mickey Mantle	12,302,747	13,122,464	819,717	6.7%
1887 Tip O'Neill	13,180,054	14,018,266	838,212	6.4%
1995 Wade Boggs	3,906,472	4,153,580	247,108	6.3%
1997 Derrek Lee	200,000	212,004	12,004	6.0%
1935 Arky Vaughan	9,298,919	9,850,240	551,321	5.9%
2002 Howie Clark	200,000	211,776	11,776	5.9%
1954 Rocky Bridges	200,000	211,760	11,760	5.9%
2004 Barry Bonds	16,437,619	17,379,816	942,197	5.7%
1954 Ted Kazanski	200,000	211,431	11,431	5.7%
1985 Willie McGee	7,137,439	7,543,396	405,957	5.7%
1981 Tim Raines	4,267,085	4,499,385	232,300	5.4%
1989 Scott Coolbaugh	200,000	210,761	10,761	5.4%
1975 Joe Morgan	8,554,511	9,013,580	459,069	5.4%
1997 Mike Piazza	7,909,554	8,318,437	408,883	5.2%

So that looks like 3 kinds of players:

-- The 200K guys who can actually hit
-- Obvious OL cookies
-- Guys who are used on tons of high cap teams

Contrarian - the reality is that in leagues $70 million and up, probably 75-80% of the player pool is virtually unusable.  It just doesn't make sense to carry a guy with an OBP of .330 on your team as a full-time player.  These seem to be the ones dropping in salary.  I'm not sure if that was the intention.  Effectively, for all the players that are reasonable to use, it's an across-the-board increase, and it isn't substantially differentiating the overused players from the rest of the usable field.

Oops, the last post neglected to include partial seasons...

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1893 Hughie Jennings	200,000	219,558	19,558	9.8%
2007 Chris Gomez	200,000	215,883	15,883	7.9%
2003 Wilson Delgado	249,592	268,281	18,689	7.5%
2010 Wilson Ramos	200,000	214,479	14,479	7.2%
2013 Michael Young	202,934	215,667	12,733	6.3%
1977 Tim Foli	235,490	250,242	14,752	6.3%
1973 Rich Reese	200,000	211,129	11,129	5.6%

Player	Old Salary___	New Salary___	Salary Difference	%Difference
1918 Fred Toney	4,203,375	4,623,712	420,337	10.0%
1919 Art Nehf	3,880,829	4,217,095	336,266	8.7%
1992 Dennis Rasmussen	1,488,414	1,573,194	84,780	5.7%
2013 Wesley Wright	565,952	596,509	30,557	5.4%
2013 Travis Blackley	405,328	425,923	20,595	5.1%

This is great stuff schwarze...thanks for posting.  It looks to me like this first pass has done far more to improve things than to detract...it's not perfect, but it's a good start.

I put together an 80M team yesterday and while there are a few old holdouts that I'm still using (largely guys who were personally favorites of mine, but not widespread cookies), just about everyone else was new.  This one update will likely eliminate the vast majority of the old cookies.  Of course, new ones will emerge in time, but the next update is just 4 months away...