Be a GM 2: Major League Boogaloo

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Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

Just from eyeballing, this is how I see the teams on a relative salary scale. Putting the bigger salaried players in parentheses ($10+/yr @ 2014), at least the ones I recognize.

High
Tampa Bay [~$125M] (McCann, Kendrick, Aybar, Hunter, Price, Cain)
Braves [~$167M] (Cabrera, Hamilton, Ellsbury, Kemp, Hudson, Garza, Santana, Papelbon)
Cleveland [$148.4M] (HanRam, Ar. Ramirez, A. Soriano, Granderson, Bruce, Greinke, R. Soriano)

Medium
Toronto [~$95M] (Swisher, Cano, Ethier, Weaver, Shields, Lohse)
Detroit [$87.5M] (A-Gon, Nolasco)
Colorado [$93.4M] (Pence, Gordon, LaRoche)
New York (NL) [$84M] (Prado, Davis, Braun)
Kansas City [$95.9M] (Upton, Upton, Bourn, Sabathia)
San Francisco [$80.5M] (Wainright)

Low
Baltimore [~$60M?](Wright, Dickey, Lester, Cabrera)
Boston [$75M] (Pujols)
New York (AL) [~$70M?] (Reyes, Beltre)
Chicago (AL) [~35M?] (Tanaka) <---- holy poo poo so many cheap cost controlled players, it's like 2013 Houston plus Tanaka
Oakland [$58M] (Scherzer, 30 feet of poo poo)

okay I'm bored somebody else can keep going.

Pander fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:39

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:16

JosefStalinator: Oct 9, 2007; Come Tbilisi if you want to live.; Grimey Drawer

Icepheonix can just tell us once he looks at it in OOTP. I'm curious what the salary breakdowns are too.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:43

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

nope, I turned financials off and also you suck at spelling

# ? Jul 6, 2014 01:46

Sexual Lorax: Mar 17, 2004; HERE'S TO FUCKING; Fun Shoe

According to fangraphs, DETROIT MEOW CITY clocks in at $87.5M for the 2014 season. This includes five players for whom no contracts were listed, so I threw MLB minimum $0.5M at them.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:02

TheFlyingLlama: Jan 2, 2013; You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be a llama?

Assuming that I've calculated things right, and excluding rookies, the Braves salary is somewhere around 130-135M for this season.

EDIT: Apparently my numbers are pretty well off what some other people have gotten.

TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:05

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

Huh. I think I've might've been lowballing some numbers there. Mine's at $93.4M, and I didn't think I had all that pricey a team (Pence, Gordon, and LaRoche are my only $10M+ players).

I guess 25 players just add up.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:14

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

I come up with 167 million for the Braves.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:15

Laderhan: Oct 2, 2013

I did mine, and the Mets payroll is around $84 million (assuming I didn't gently caress up). With my highest paid player surprisingly being Martin Prado with $11 million.

Also, the Rays having one of the highest payrolls is pretty funny.

Laderhan fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:17

straight up brolic: Jan 31, 2007; After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

my salary to $106.4m i think. nice number.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:31

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Twins come in at roughly $82.45 million. I rounded on some of the rookie deals where the guy was getting like $1,042 over the minimum.

e: I know Houston wants to be autoed so once Miami and Milwaukee pick I can finish the draft. Feel free to PM me your lineups/rotations and strategies so I can get started, though.

IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jul 6, 2014

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:31

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

IcePhoenix posted:

Twins come in at roughly $82.45 million. I rounded on some of the rookie deals where the guy was getting like $1,042 over the minimum.

e: I know Houston wants to be autoed so once Miami and Milwaukee pick I can finish the draft. Feel free to PM me your lineups/rotations and strategies so I can get started, though.

Can we have that information in the spreadsheet?

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:48

straight up brolic: Jan 31, 2007; After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

will the game auto-set strategy dependent on the players you have?

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:56

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Pander posted:

Can we have that information in the spreadsheet?

What information, strategies and lineups? You can put it there if you want to.

straight up brolic posted:

will the game auto-set strategy dependent on the players you have?

I can have it auto-generate if you want, yeah.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 02:57

Screen Door Slams: Jan 27, 2014; Michael Pineda just couldn't stay healthy...

Going by my Yankees' 25-man, we're at a $87,434,550 payroll.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 03:29

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

IcePhoenix posted:

What information, strategies and lineups? You can put it there if you want to.

Yeah. It's nice having a single repository for that poo poo.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 03:29

Laderhan: Oct 2, 2013

i was waaay too bored so i did Cleveland ($148.4) and Kansas City ($95.9).

# ? Jul 6, 2014 03:39

JosefStalinator: Oct 9, 2007; Come Tbilisi if you want to live.; Grimey Drawer

The SF Blingee cost only $80.529 million, of which Adam Wainwright makes up 20 million, or about 25%.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 05:39

kensei: Dec 27, 2007; He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!

Let the sim select my lineups and such, but I don't want Howard at 1B ever over Goldschmidt.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 06:10

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

JosefStalinator posted:

The SF Blingee cost only $80.529 million, of which Adam Wainwright makes up 20 million, or about 25%.

My current starting rotation makes a combined 3.45 million and my bullpen has four players who make at least 3.75 each

# ? Jul 6, 2014 06:26

kensei: Dec 27, 2007; He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!

My team is around $102M but I don't have salary for Youk/Wlad and my minor league dudes.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 06:43

Popete: Oct 6, 2009; This will make sure you don't suggest to the KDz
That he should grow greens instead of crushing on MCs; Grimey Drawer

kensei posted:

Let the sim select my lineups and such

This for Cleveland as well. Though if you could post here what the sim decides I'd like to take a look and tweak it.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 13:54

FairGame: Jul 24, 2001; Der Kommander

Baltimore's lineups, rotation, and bullpen alignment are in their draft sheet. Please use those.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 14:11

straight up brolic: Jan 31, 2007; After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

FairGame posted:

Baltimore's lineups, rotation, and bullpen alignment are in their draft sheet. Please use those.

same with St. Louis, let the computer determine strategy

# ? Jul 6, 2014 14:36

tadashi: Feb 20, 2006

I PM'd instructions to you, IcePhoenix.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 14:44

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

IcePhoenix posted:

Twins come in at roughly $82.45 million. I rounded on some of the rookie deals where the guy was getting like $1,042 over the minimum.

e: I know Houston wants to be autoed so once Miami and Milwaukee pick I can finish the draft. Feel free to PM me your lineups/rotations and strategies so I can get started, though.

Are you running a 4-man rotation or something? Don't see your SP5.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 15:55

Sexual Lorax: Mar 17, 2004; HERE'S TO FUCKING; Fun Shoe

Is it possible to have the game set strategy and then override specific sliders? I want to set lineups and pitching strategy, but I'm sure I'd gently caress up just about anything else I'd touch.

To be honest, I'm probably going to gently caress up pitching, but I have something specific I want to try.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:15

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

I've tried to set some sliders in my tab. It's, uh, a little confusing. If it looks dumb, just use the lineups and depth charts I set and forego the slider poo poo.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:22

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Pander posted:

Are you running a 4-man rotation or something? Don't see your SP5.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 17:56

Laderhan: Oct 2, 2013

Alright, I set my lineups, rotation, bullpen, etc. on my team page. Just let the sim determine my strategy sliders or whatever.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:15

Harlock: Jan 15, 2006; Tap "A" to drink!!!

I thought about going to a 4 man rotation, but I have so many pitchers. Especially with no injuries, there's no downside.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:32

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Harlock posted:

I thought about going to a 4 man rotation, but I have so many pitchers. Especially with no injuries, there's no downside.

There's a downside if you don't manage it properly. The downside being that they pitch like poo poo.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:37

angrygodofjebus: Aug 25, 2005; Drink it up and hunker down

Oakland has their stuff on the team page. Let the machine determine the strategy things.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:38

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

IcePhoenix posted:

There's a downside if you don't manage it properly. The downside being that they pitch like poo poo.

Your pitching doesn't exactly scream 4-man rotation stuff. None of them have ever average 6 or more IP per start. I think you're being a bit risky here.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:42

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Pander posted:

Your pitching doesn't exactly scream 4-man rotation stuff. None of them have ever average 6 or more IP per start. I think you're being a bit risky here.

Fortunately this is about having fun

# ? Jul 6, 2014 18:44

TheFlyingLlama: Jan 2, 2013; You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be a llama?

The Barves have their lineup, rotation and bullpen in the team page. I guess have the computer set the sliders, as I have no idea what any of the sliders are.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:14

Politicalrancor: Jan 29, 2008

Let the computer set me up, just don't let anyone bunt

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:36

Zythrst: May 31, 2011; Time to join a revolution son, its going to be yooge!

Hurray lineup and tactics sent in, and I can't wait to win The Pennant!

# ? Jul 6, 2014 19:59

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

TheFlyingLlama posted:

I guess have the computer set the sliders, as I have no idea what any of the sliders are.

If only there was a post at the beginning of the thread explaining them all :shrug:

# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:06

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

IcePhoenix posted:

Fortunately this is about having fun

oh I don't think I said anything about fun! You'll have lots of fun trotting out to signal relievers

# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:18

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 17:16

TheFlyingLlama: Jan 2, 2013; You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and be a llama?

IcePhoenix posted:

If only there was a post at the beginning of the thread explaining them all

Fair enough. On the other hand, coming up with sliders for that many situations is probably past what I'm willing to bother with this drunk. Just let the computer come up with everything, that gives me a convenient scapegoat when everything goes tits up.

# ? Jul 6, 2014 20:36

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