Like I did three months ago, I will post some analysis on this forum on the new salaries. As far as I can tell, the salaries have not yet been updated.

New Salary update will begin at Noon ET today. Should take less than one hour.

New salaries are now live!

Here are the results of the new update.

Hitters:
12,520 increases
35,661 decreases
317 same (all 200K)

Pitchers:
8,218 increases
26,764 decreases
22 same (all 200K)

Compare this to last update...

Hitters:
10,348 increases
37,482 decreases
668 same (all 200K)

Pitchers:
5,694 increases
29,185 decreases
125 same (all 200K)

Here are the top 30 percentage increases for batters.
%Diff1 represents the increase over February's salary.
%Diff2 represents the increase over the original salaries.
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Player	Orig Salary_____	Feb Salary_____	June Salary_____	%Diff1___	%Diff2___
2013 Michael Young	202,934	215,667	237,233	10.0%	16.9%
1992 Bip Roberts	4,397,784	4,837,562	5,274,291	9.0%	19.9%
1911 Ty Cobb	12,571,648	13,755,639	14,928,436	8.5%	18.7%
1927 Lou Gehrig	13,669,251	14,973,369	16,206,476	8.2%	18.6%
1901 Nap Lajoie	14,143,902	15,558,292	16,825,698	8.1%	19.0%
1980 George Brett	9,306,245	10,236,870	11,061,994	8.1%	18.9%
1989 Howard Johnson	5,387,622	5,926,384	6,402,699	8.0%	18.8%
1956 Mickey Mantle	12,302,747	13,122,464	14,040,639	7.0%	14.1%
1886 King Kelly	10,629,733	11,591,130	12,395,651	6.9%	16.6%
1921 Babe Ruth	17,817,715	19,160,938	20,476,312	6.9%	14.9%
1923 Babe Ruth	17,302,114	18,575,156	19,792,044	6.6%	14.4%
1924 Rogers Hornsby	13,189,968	14,238,801	15,160,793	6.5%	14.9%
1894 Hugh Duffy	13,583,300	14,542,722	15,482,472	6.5%	14.0%
1941 Ted Williams	12,722,311	13,681,636	14,547,670	6.3%	14.3%
1987 Vince Coleman	4,240,214	4,585,196	4,857,264	5.9%	14.6%
1975 Joe Morgan	8,554,511	9,013,580	9,546,329	5.9%	11.6%
1980 Miguel Dilone	4,387,671	4,805,975	5,078,129	5.7%	15.7%
1899 John McGraw	8,398,716	8,988,009	9,490,753	5.6%	13.0%
2003 Wilson Delgado	249,592	268,281	283,278	5.6%	13.5%
2009 Ben Zobrist	4,669,972	5,011,712	5,283,435	5.4%	13.1%
1985 Willie McGee	7,137,439	7,543,396	7,946,403	5.3%	11.3%
1887 Tip O'Neill	13,180,054	14,018,266	14,754,232	5.3%	11.9%
1977 Tim Foli	235,490	250,242	263,214	5.2%	11.8%
1997 Mike Piazza	7,909,554	8,318,437	8,746,369	5.1%	10.6%
1935 Jimmie Foxx	8,633,433	9,055,378	9,517,034	5.1%	10.2%
1999 Domingo Cedeno	200,000	200,000	209,780	4.9%	4.9%
2004 Barry Bonds	16,437,619	17,379,816	18,204,454	4.7%	10.7%
1935 Arky Vaughan	9,298,919	9,850,240	10,316,313	4.7%	10.9%
1981 Tim Raines	4,267,085	4,499,385	4,708,563	4.6%	10.3%
2006 Joe Mauer	6,584,624	6,868,994	7,182,211	4.6%	9.1%

Here are the top 30 percentage increases for pitchers.
%Diff1 represents the increase over February's salary.
%Diff2 represents the increase over the original salaries.
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Player	Orig Salary_____	Feb Salary_____	June Salary_____	%Diff1___	%Diff2___
1908 Addie Joss	12,778,253	14,056,078	15,461,686	10.0%	21.0%
1990 Dennis Eckersley	4,293,010	4,722,311	5,194,542	10.0%	21.0%
1995 Greg Maddux	10,842,285	11,926,514	13,119,165	10.0%	21.0%
1918 Fred Toney	4,203,375	4,623,712	5,086,083	10.0%	21.0%
2003 Eric Gagne	5,463,221	6,009,543	6,604,919	9.9%	20.9%
1888 Elton Chamberlain	6,153,872	6,769,259	7,399,457	9.3%	20.2%
1967 Cisco Carlos	1,938,932	2,102,812	2,274,928	8.2%	17.3%
2000 Pedro Martinez	11,707,138	12,877,852	13,923,394	8.1%	18.9%
2012 Craig Kimbrel	3,884,821	4,268,537	4,604,418	7.9%	18.5%
1918 Jake Northrop	2,234,464	2,394,943	2,574,235	7.5%	15.2%
1919 Art Nehf	3,880,829	4,217,095	4,501,501	6.7%	16.0%
1988 Bob Milacki	1,231,122	1,327,369	1,416,120	6.7%	15.0%
2010 Hong-Chih Kuo	3,398,795	3,677,746	3,922,736	6.7%	15.4%
1968 Bob Gibson	12,216,556	12,894,242	13,732,391	6.5%	12.4%
2013 Koji Uehara	4,701,441	4,992,537	5,316,338	6.5%	13.1%
1914 Dutch Leonard	8,905,191	9,585,211	10,193,405	6.3%	14.5%
1910 Ed Walsh	15,524,600	16,396,300	17,342,094	5.8%	11.7%
1915 Pete Alexander	16,221,577	17,348,634	18,308,834	5.5%	12.9%
1987 Jack McDowell	1,160,846	1,196,953	1,261,642	5.4%	8.7%
2015 Jake Arrieta	10,006,100	10,091,431	10,605,735	5.1%	6.0%
1908 Elmer Steele	3,799,703	4,054,701	4,261,011	5.1%	12.1%
2008 Mariano Rivera	3,784,493	4,010,451	4,214,095	5.1%	11.4%
1992 Dennis Rasmussen	1,488,414	1,573,194	1,649,793	4.9%	10.8%
1916 Ferdie Schupp	6,048,685	6,379,390	6,689,609	4.9%	10.6%
1999 Billy Wagner	4,314,571	4,551,975	4,771,824	4.8%	10.6%
1915 Tim McCabe	1,476,708	1,572,607	1,646,967	4.7%	11.5%
2015 Joba Chamberlain	200,000	200,000	209,456	4.7%	4.7%
2009 Mike Adams	2,569,430	2,716,583	2,843,126	4.7%	10.7%
1915 Cy Falkenberg	1,737,305	1,809,969	1,894,130	4.6%	9.0%
2015 Zack Greinke	9,612,768	9,698,330	10,144,881	4.6%	5.5%

One problem that is obvious. In one or two more updates, there will no longer be any $200K players. I think admin needs to change the logic to force a minimum of X number of $200K players, regardless of what the formula says. The other option would be to allow players to drop below 200K.

Looking at both updates...

Hitters:
Increased Twice: 7,437
Decreased Twice: 32,749

Pitchers:
Increased Twice: 4,338
Decreased Twice: 25,408

I'm not sure why no $200K players would be a problem. Maybe you change some of the verbiage for theme leagues (instead of "any $200K players", you say "any < $300K players".... Or you have to allocate $2M to fill the lower dregs of your team rather than $1.2M.

Regardless of theme rules, many people will fill out their roster with the cheapest players available. As a result, the remaining 200K players will continue to be overused and see their salaries increase. The resulting decrease in players slightly over 200K will not come down as fast, ultimately eliminating all 200K players.

Thanks for sharing this good work schwarze. Agree with your comments in post immediately above this one.

good work, schwarze.

Posted by schwarze on 6/7/2016 2:14:00 PM (view original):
Regardless of theme rules, many people will fill out their roster with the cheapest players available. As a result, the remaining 200K players will continue to be overused and see their salaries increase. The resulting decrease in players slightly over 200K will not come down as fast, ultimately eliminating all 200K players.

I'm not totally sure this is necessarily a bad thing. Bottom salary should be the "worst of the worst" and unless you are hurting for cash it might be more cost effective to spend an extra $10K on a guy who's much better, especially in leagues without AAA.

Although I can see a simple requirement that there be a player at 200K at every offensive position (possibly including 3 OFs), and perhaps 3-4 pitchers minimum, as you suggest, being useful. But I don't see an issue with the general decrease in quality of pure 200K options.

what was the biggest drop ?

Posted by clk0619 on 6/8/2016 9:17:00 AM (view original):
what was the biggest drop ?

I'd like to know that too. If I knew where to find the original salaries in a spreadsheet I could figure it out.