Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:57 pm
Chompsky, sir, not saying I have not found some guys, and Pinson, one of my favorites, is cheaper, and some SPs I like to use are cheaper, and don't get me wrong, I totally support the price increases for the high=-end relievers, even though they dragged my entire usual pen along with them... but almost every guy I relied on for the middle of my order is more expensive actually the low-end guys are more expensive too, Moseby and W. Davis in cf used to be worth it.
But I will be honest, it was Chief Wilson and Claudell (Washington) that really irritated me... they used to be little snipers at the bottom of the lineup when I was able to negotiate a deal with Barry or the Babe's agents and with them having received the same COLA as the big boys, teams I enjoyed building just don't work anymore.
Since no one wants to play 8, anymore, I guess this is what we get. I don't think I need to like or endorse it.
Maybe if the salary negotiations (that is, repricing strategy/parameters) had been more transparent (it could happen - SOM could slide back the curtain, I don't think it will happen, but it could.) I would be less agitated by the changes.
bottom line, virtually every time I try to convert a team from 8 to 9, I am unable because the change makes the salary total over the cap. the only times I did not experience that, I had squirreled away a few million for the draft.
I did the experiments. calling out list of guys in isolation is not the same as converting a team. Changing the experiment does not invalidate the reported observation.
It is not just about the game puzzle of piecing together the team, part of the fun of the season is seeing names of guys (whose careers) you liked in your stats and boxscores and headlines, getting guys we like was, I always thought, part of the new card discussion process.