Posted by buddhagamer on 11/17/2015 12:00:00 PM (view original):
I like schwarze's idea of having separate databases for pricing (maybe scale back updates to every 2 months instead of every 2 weeks). Let commissioners lock in for a particular update and allow the themes a maximum amount of time to fill (maybe 2 updates or 4 months) such that a maximum of 3 difference salaries would need to be kept at any given time.
Long ago now, I suggested that the solution to the deadball pitchers' skew, bad-gloves fielding skew (and whatever others) would be to have two versions of players, one for progressives and one adapted realistically to modern baseball (assuming good pitchers learned the new techniques and some new pitches, and good fielders used the modern gloves, etc. That would even have to be enforced as to how many innings a pitcher could pitch. That would be doable, by placing the old distribution curves per season (or group of similarly played out deadball seasons) upon the curves of the outcomes of modern baseball
[edit: and fitting the former to the latter] That's one of the classic uses of standard deviation.
I'd suggest making salaries very dynamic then, for Open Leagues and more thoroughly static for progressives. As for non progressive theme leagues, I think the Commish for any given league should be able to choose which statistical model type of the two, plus which salary type of their two, to use.
11/18/2015 7:40 AM (edited)