Breakdown of hitting vs pitching salaries...
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Hitting Teams		Hitting		Pitching		Total
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newarkwilder		66,466,512		33,533,482		99,999,994
06gsp		66,181,717		33,818,040		99,999,757
schwarze		65,059,252		34,896,809		99,956,061
northof49 (H)		65,017,864		34,981,973		99,999,837
3dayrotation		64,723,254		35,276,123		99,999,377
barracuda3		63,341,169		36,655,673		99,996,842
justinlee_24 (H)		61,585,717		38,411,232		99,996,949
nordawg (H)		61,091,576		38,906,154		99,997,730
midknight		58,417,338		41,576,752		99,994,090
zephyr1949		57,839,760		42,160,219		99,999,979
Jtpsops		56,465,472		43,525,995		99,991,467
ozomatli (H)		56,396,988		43,603,010		99,999,998
Average		61,882,218		38,112,122		99,994,340
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Pitching Teams		Hitting		Pitching		Total
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mensu1954		43,734,475		56,231,357		99,965,832
VanMeter		43,253,456		56,706,947		99,960,403
justinlee_24 (P)		42,923,121		57,072,140		99,995,261
ejstockman		42,610,579		57,314,522		99,925,101
redwingscup		41,733,928		58,263,993		99,997,921
ozomatli (P)		41,158,834		58,840,709		99,999,543
redcped		39,783,618		60,211,177		99,994,795
dlchow		38,424,766		61,575,234		100,000,000
northof49 (P)		34,699,612		65,288,006		99,987,618
nordawg (P)		34,483,463		65,516,480		99,999,943
tridentric		33,882,550		66,113,407		99,995,957
halo23		33,686,316		66,313,528		99,999,844
Average		39,197,893		60,787,292		99,985,185

Special props goes to dlchow who somehow managed to spend exactly $100,000,000. I've never done that before.

My strategy for a high-salaried hitting team was to spend extra dollars on great defensive range in the infield to help offset the mediocre pitching. I also have no deadball pitching because I want to mitigate the errors my deadball fielders will make. I have to admit that I haven't used many of these pitchers before.

C: '89 Fred Carroll (.330, .486, .484) & '29 Pinky Hargrave (.330, .401, .443)
1B: '14 Tris Speaker (.338, .423, .503, A+++)
2B: '93 Bid McPhee (.281, .401, ..379, A+++)
3B: '97 Bill Joyce (.304, .441, .433, A+++)
SS: '97 George Davis (..353, .406, .509)
OF: '69 Pete Rose (.348, .428, .512)
OF: '95 Sam Thompson (.392, .430, 654)
OF: '15 Benny Kauff (.342, .446, .509, A+)
Pinch hitters: Roy Cullenbine, Dave Philley, Bob Bescher

SP: '41 Dutch Leonard (270 ip, 1.27 whip, 0.21 hr/9)
SP: '89 Mark Gubicza (255 i[p, 1.24 whip, 0.35 hr/9)
SP: '76 Al Fitzmorris (221 ip, 1.28 whip, 0.25 hr/9)
SP: '06 Chien-Ming Wang (218 ip, 1.31 whip, 0.50 hr/9)
Relievers: I have nine RPs all with 40-60 innings, with whips ranging from 1.11 to 1.28, all with low hr/9.

Hitting Stats: 5836 PA, .338 avg, .430 obp, .499 slug
Pitching Stats: 1391 IP, 1.24 whip, 0.32 hr/9

Adding my comment from the league forum:

I think going high on hitter salary is particularly risky. Let's say you left 35M for pitchers. That's a 70M league pitching staff, quality wise. But, in 70M leagues, you can get by with fewer innings. So this is actually lower quality. But then since it's lower quality, you need more IP, which further lowers quality, which means you need more IP, which further lowers quality.... you get it.

The risk is compounded further because of your opponents: either heavy hitting teams that will cause you to throw extra pitches, or pitching teams that result in a lot of low scoring (read: extra inning) games.

At a higher cap and with choice of stadium I probably would have been more aggressive but at 100M I couldn't justify it.

You might be right, and all these teams that spent $60+ million on hitting will go down in flames, allowing the minimum salaried hitting teams to advance to the playoffs. I have no doubt that some of the best W-L records will come from the teams right near the minimum allowable salary (both hitting and pitching).

Could be ozomatli vs mensu1954 in the World Series.

Ha, well, those teams have to play each other too and someone has to win those games, so I don't think that's likely. But I am surprised people pushed it as much as they did. Will be fun to watch play out

schwarze I went with a very similar strategy except I went for deadball starting pitchers (cheapo open league cookie specials). hopefully I have enough innings, I paid a little extra for more mop-up innings in anticipation of a few mop-up games to keep the regulars rested.

just realized a team going into a fatigue death spiral on one side of the league but not the other could skew the winning percentages quite a lot...let's see what happens.

I didn't put a minimum innings rule, but I hope people drafted a reasonable number of innings. I have 1391 (no mopup IPs). If other hitting teams drafted the same, I don't think it will be too bad. Remember that the hitting teams' pitching staff gets to play more games vs the offensively challenged pitching teams than the other strong hitting teams.

Posted by schwarze on 3/30/2020 3:58:00 PM (view original):
Special props goes to dlchow who somehow managed to spend exactly $100,000,000. I've never done that before.

Found a few mop ups that made the addition work!