I am back to play out my last few teams and I just made my first serious OL entry in over a year. I have som observations about the salary structure since dynamic pricing began.
Pitching:
There is now a hyperbolic relationship between $/IP and (OL) projected ERA. Alternatively one could also characterize a pretty liner relationship between IP/$ and projected ERA.
Some players are obviously better values than others, but for the most part the bargains are gone. The best value pitchers continue to be deadball era. The few bargains that exist are less than 50 ip/ season guys or players with high ip/ season and low ip/ game.
Interestingly, 1908 Joss went from the greatest pitching bargain to one of the worst overpay in the sim.
His 1903 clone continues to be a good deal though.
One can still build an low oavg, low bb/9, low hr/9 staff for under $40M, but in far fewer ways (and far less effectively) than 18 months ago.
Hitters:
While the most popular bargains are now mostly overpays, there is a lot of inefficiency in the market.
People still vastly undervalue defense and many of the extremely cromulent defensive players, are still good deals if not outright bargains.
Switch hitters are still undervalued compared the their less dexteritous counterparts. However the gap is closing.
The best values for offense seem to be in the 300-400 PA range. Because of this, one probably should consider splitting a position when drafting for an OL.