Just value for the dollar. I also like Leblanc, Nolasco, Floyd, Iwakuma, etc, etc as well. It depends on the opposing lineups some, too. When you can spot start guys like Drabek and Straily, even better. Even though a lot of my teams aren't fully up to The Secret Formula specs, I still put full emphasis on the low dollar guys.
I think I've written something like this before, but
tangotiger (the
By The Book guy) writes that a perfect lineup is nine equally capable hitters, not a couple of superstars mixed in among a bunch of "role players". Using this type of balance, imagine your team with nine $5 mil batters (once in a while you can actually do this and it often works out pretty well). Now account for the at bats, and the SOM Online lineup starts to look more 6-6-6, 5-5-5, 4-4-4. Now account for the salaries of players available, and very often you end up with 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (TSF!)
The pitching works out the same way, only you have to account for how you spend your dollars on the total innings pitched. You can't spend $3 mil on 10 guys each, because the 8-9-10 reliever guys might only pitch 10-30 innings while the 1-2-3 starters get over 200 innings each. Ideally you might go with five $4 mil SPs (or four $5 mil *SPs). But one thing I try and account for is that in pitching, you pretty much get what you pay for, so the more you pay the more you benefit (up to a point). So my TSF model looks more like $6-5-4 for three solid starters, and then depending on what I have left over after everything else is accounted for, I might only have two bucks left for the 4th and 5th starters. That's how I end up with Bud Norris.