Just want to remind people that Fangraphs has an awesome auction value calculator that it totally customizable for almost any league settings.
http://www.fangraphs.com/auctiontool.aspx
For people who are not familiar with the tool here are a couple tips for H2H that have given me pretty good results
- for SP and RP enter the numbers that you will actually roster, and not the number of starting slots your league uses. For example if you have 5 SP slots, but most teams carry 8 SP, then enter 8 as the number of SP. Same for RPs.
- And if your league uses only the generic P designation, and not SP + RP, still enter how many SP and RP are typically rostered by each team, rather than enter a number in the P slot.
- Bench spots...
once you have entered all the numbers for hitting positions, add up your starting hitters + however many pitchers you entered. Subtract that total from your total number of roster spots to get an effective number of bench spots.
Enter "0" for bench and then in the budget slot, subtract $1 from your auction budget for each effective bench slot. Ive found this reflects valies much more accurately than using your leagues actual number of bemch slots (remember, you want to spend the vast majority of your budget on starting players, and almost nothing on your bench hitters)
- if your league uses Saves+Holds only choose saves as a category, not both. Then use the little box underneath "Starts to Qualify at a Position" in order to artificially decrease the value of RPs. I use 35% but it could be more in your league. This does a good job of more accurately valuing closers, and then I just mentally calculate the value of Middle Relief/Setup holds guys by valuing them at about 75% of a comparable closer (as in comparable ratios and K totals) to compensate for the fact that closers generally get more saves, than setup guys get holds. But thats just to gauge value; don't actually pay tjat much in the auction. keel in mind that in Saves+Holds leagues elite set up men are almost always severely umdervalued, and closers are waaay overvalued.
Not sure how well all the above stuff works in roto leagues. Inning cap is one thing. And It's definitely a bit different than H2H because you are using far fewer pitchers on average and your bench hitters are much more important in roto (in order to max out games played per position)