MACK/Custom Draft Guide enhancements now available!

[RobR]

My league is announcing keepers today so I am entering them into MACK as the day goes on. Some of the keepers are being removed from the guide and others aren't. What could I be doing wrong?

No one should be removed from the guide, just relocated to a slot appropriate to their kept salary. Players with $0 salary set are currently being treated as if they weren't kept. In the coming days we'll add a "Keep Me" checkbox for clarity's sake.

[RobR]

It seems to be taking the freeze players and moving them to their keeper value, which doesn't account for inflation. If someone has Pujols for $10 but he is worth $40, then there is $30 available that shouldn't be. Instead, it seems to be just making Pujols a $10 player.

Denoting a keeper removes the kept salary and the players (their stats) from the pool available for pricing. In your example the $30 will be spread across a pool of players without Pujols' stats, inflating their value relative to your non-keeper league.

[RobR]

Reply to rbbl's most recent question

The initial implementation removes kept hitter salaries from the hitting budget and kept pitcher salaries from the pitching budget, effectively tracking inflation separately for hitters and pitchers.

Are your pitchers kept above overall market value and your hitters below? That would explain the behavior you describe. If not, please PM me with your username for the site (not forums) and the league name where you observe this behavior.

It wouldn't be difficult to offer the option to have separate pitching and hitting or combined inflation. I expect a lot of good feedback and features to come out of our initial release.

[Donkey]

So if it was a 100-player, 2000 budget league and you have 10 keepers at 100, the league just gets re-run as a 90-player, 1900 budget league.
(At least that's how I'm understanding it.)

It seems to be taking the freeze players and moving them to their keeper value, which doesn't account for inflation. If someone has Pujols for $10 but he is worth $40, then there is $30 available that shouldn't be. Instead, it seems to be just making Pujols a $10 player.

[RAY@HQ]

I get what you're saying, and I think I'm seeing it too. I'll let Rob answer since he's the man behind the algorithm.

But from the little he told me about the way this is implemented, basically what he's doing is just removing the kept players from the player pool when producing the values. So if it was a 100-player, 2000 budget league and you have 10 keepers at 100, the league just gets re-run as a 90-player, 1900 budget league.

One thing to look at is how your keeper dollars are budgeted, as opposed to your hitter/pitcher split setting. The split is fixed, so if more keeper dollars are skewed to the hitter side, the remaining budget dollars are going to get disproportionately allocated in order to make the overall split work.

(At least that's how I'm understanding it.)

[rbbl]

Values for pitchers go down

Ray and Rob,

I see how the values for keepers are their input salaries and they are noted as kept. However, after including the keepers, the values for players went up but the values for pitchers went down. This does not make sense.With both pitchers and batters frozen, their should be inflation in values for both. Wouldn't you agree?

Thanks

[RobR]

how do I code a pure DH like hafner or any DH for that matter...0? When I used 0's for DHs, the CDG did not work(I coded Hafner as 1b,#3); the input page does not have a DH slot and our league uses DH and UT, how handle this?

Thank you

Due to the special treatment of zeroes by most programming languages, we're using 10 for DH. In a couple of days those input text boxes should change to a drop down with "DH", so you don't need to worry abuot it.

[RAY@HQ]

Nobody should be excluded from the CDG. They stay in the output, but with the salary fixed at what you set in MACK, and the "Kept" indicator set to "Y".

Search the output, you should find all of your keepers in there. If not, that's something we need to research.

[rbbl]

missing pitcher keepers

Ray,

I entered all the pitcher keepers as 1. I didn't check every pitcher but these are some not excluded from the CDG: Lester, Soria, M. Rivera, Beckett.

Thanks

[RAY@HQ]

I've got a league with two teams and two keepers each, and all are appearing on the CDG with the "Kept" indicator set. Obviously, that's not a comprehensive test.

Double-check the way you have your keepers defined in MACK. Use numeric position indicators (1 for pitchers). Someone else reported that there may be a problem with DHs.

If you can name some specific players who are disappearing, I can try them in my setup too.

[lego yo ego]

My league is announcing keepers today so I am entering them into MACK as the day goes on. Some of the keepers are being removed from the guide and others aren't. What could I be doing wrong?

[RAY@HQ]

Dollar values are back. All is well.

[RAY@HQ]

Projections are messed up this morning (all dollar values = 0), probably residue from this upgrade. Stay tuned.

[RAY@HQ]

Merging this with the other thread....

The positions will be changed to drop-downs in the next day or two to eliminate the numbering confusion. Will look at your other issues.

[Jenkinssssss]

these are awesome! thanks!

on a side note, it looks like mark mcgwire took over the projections. seriously input any of your keeper studs and and be wowed!
i'll take 300 115 34 125 37 out of my $15 matt kemp anyday.