It’s a miracle!

Cant wait to tinker with some of these players.

Anyone know why Blake Griffin’s DET and LAC versions aren’t the same salary? Same with Mirotic NO vs CHI. Weird. I thought the salary was determined by a formula.

I believe when a player is traded mid-season, four versions of said player appear, for example with Blake; 1 version with only his minutes/stats from LA, 1 version with only his minutes/stats from Detroit, and two versions (Detroit & LA) which combine all of his minutes/stats from the entire season combined.

Posted by mptrey on 11/15/2018 9:15:00 AM (view original):
I believe when a player is traded mid-season, four versions of said player appear, for example with Blake; 1 version with only his minutes/stats from LA, 1 version with only his minutes/stats from Detroit, and two versions (Detroit & LA) which combine all of his minutes/stats from the entire season combined.

Right but the two versions with the same stats have different salaries

Oh crap I didn't notice that. Looks like Blake's full minutes season with Pistons has slightly more usage%, Dreb% and Ast% than with his Clippers version which slightly inflates his salary. Not sure why it turns out that way exactly.

Posted by mptrey on 11/15/2018 9:48:00 AM (view original):
Oh crap I didn't notice that. Looks like Blake's full minutes season with Pistons has slightly more usage%, Dreb% and Ast% than with his Clippers version which slightly inflates his salary. Not sure why it turns out that way exactly.

Weird. Not sure how they got that since they should have the exact same stats. Good catch though.

Posted by dBKC on 11/15/2018 9:49:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mptrey on 11/15/2018 9:48:00 AM (view original):
Oh crap I didn't notice that. Looks like Blake's full minutes season with Pistons has slightly more usage%, Dreb% and Ast% than with his Clippers version which slightly inflates his salary. Not sure why it turns out that way exactly.

Weird. Not sure how they got that since they should have the exact same stats. Good catch though.

their respective teams wouldn't, though, so the % change makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is that this is the first year that this happened. We got the players, so I'm not complaining.

You see this in baseball sim if a player is traded from the AL to the NL or vice versa. Identical stats with different salaries. I doubt if the reasoning behind it (players are priced based on performance compared to the individual league, not entire MLB) applies here.

As I just said, it's a simple solution. Advanced stats are the heart of the salary formula. Advanced stats are drawn from a percentage of a player's totals from his team's and team's opponents totals based on the minutes while the player is on the floor. Different teams will cause different totals which result in different percentages. They used a different source (or at least a different way of getting the stats) this time than they have in the past, so I imagine that the previous way normalized the advanced stats (and therefore the salary) for the equal minute versions.