Think of the players you've drafted that you just knew were under-priced that have between 300-500 PA's that have one tenth of the uses of full time cookies. Got it? these players will never be drafted at rates more than full time players...... get used to micro-managing these sorts of anomalies, baseball at it's distorted unconventional best.......These are your new permanent cookies. 

This sounds like more fun (and yes, thanks for getting us back to baseball crimsonblue): I don't think we will really see whole leagues with the same lineups. It takes a little time for knowledge to filter around, there will a lot of weird bargains as crimsonblue suggests, some will pick up tips on the forum. By the time something is common knowledge, it will have one more week of the two month window - IF the window is that long - if they keep the original two week frame there won't be time to even adjust en masse. More innovation and improv. 

Should be fun. 

Posted by crimsonblue on 12/8/2015 10:06:00 AM (view original):
The people that favor pure capitalism are mystifying.  Pure Laissez-Faire Capitalism has never existed. The closest we've had in history is 19th century America. A time of slavery, robber barons and the subordination of women.....we've evolved. 

1. "Capitalism" is a construct by Karl Marx intentionally begging the question; it is a straw man term of propaganda.
2. The freedom of natural rights by natural law, protected by, rather than controlled by government is the way life works and works well (see America, the most successful and free society in world history, despite those who would control and corrupt that freedom, who are there for the defiance and defeating). Government by its nature is a body, large or small, for punishing people, justly or otherwise, or protecting them. It is by its nature not a righteous paternal ombudsman. It inevitably has to take, to give and to control, to provide; control is the opposite of natural, free living, it is the essence of slavery.
3. Ending slavery and defeating the subordination of women are results of our free by principle society, which overcomes those strictures.
4. Robber barons frankly I've dealt with in an earlier post here and #2 deals with it finely.
5. None of the above is any excuse for the inevitable depotism of government run economics, from which the American Revolution became its revolution.
6. Definitively, there can be no such thing as a free and healthy society without economic freedom.

Posted by crimsonblue on 12/8/2015 10:17:00 AM (view original):
Think of the players you've drafted that you just knew were under-priced that have between 300-500 PA's that have one tenth of the uses of full time cookies. Got it? these players will never be drafted at rates more than full time players...... get used to micro-managing these sorts of anomalies, baseball at it's distorted unconventional best.......These are your new permanent cookies. 

These are often the best players to run and yes, they will probably more likely be underpriced.

There will be no PERMANENT cookies.  If these guys are used a lot, their prices will increase.  That's the WHOLE POINT of dynamic pricing. 

Posted by schwarze on 12/10/2015 11:51:00 AM (view original):
There will be no PERMANENT cookies.  If these guys are used a lot, their prices will increase.  That's the WHOLE POINT of dynamic pricing. 

 You can't possibly convince me that part-time players will be used as much as full-time players, and we'll somehow go against human nature and convention in player usage... They will NOT be used a lot making them permanent (part time players) THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. 

That might make those part-time players somewhat permanent good values if they remain little-used and their salary changes only slightly up or down, but the WHOLE POINT (ha) of being a cookie is overuse.  If a player is not used ad nauseum then that is not a cookie.  A cookie does not have to be a great value (though most are), and great value does not automatically make one a cookie.  The two are independent concepts.

Well said skunk206 !

Posted by skunk206 on 12/10/2015 2:53:00 PM (view original):
That might make those part-time players somewhat permanent good values if they remain little-used and their salary changes only slightly up or down, but the WHOLE POINT (ha) of being a cookie is overuse.  If a player is not used ad nauseum then that is not a cookie.  A cookie does not have to be a great value (though most are), and great value does not automatically make one a cookie.  The two are independent concepts.

You're absolutely right they are independent. Agreed. Semantics? Call them widgets, cookies, or thingamagigs if you like. Isn't this forum about having representative pricing values? I don't wan't "UNDER VALUED" players at my disposal to win with all the time either I think most people dislike having to get beat by HoJo, Bip Raines and Carter primarilly, not just cookies in general. Because if we're really here to discuss the overuse of 54 Ted Kazanski or 67 Gus Gil then we've all got too much time on our hands. Great non-cookie league you've got going Skunk.

When is dynamic pricing going to begin? Anyone have an exact date?

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