Aaron Mother****ing Hill

Sadly, that's most of them for the last 15 years:/

Yeah true say.

another_rack (5:31:34): Cool Sizemore is mine then

Didn't want this to be lost on 50 PPPers.

Not sure how I just got Mauer for 103, but holy **** I'll take it. And if it wasn't for someone frantically pushing minbid in the last 5 seconds (not sure I quite understand this... sick attempt a slowroll I guess?), I would have had him for under 100. lolol how that's even possible i dont know.

Hill for 35 seems insane

Yeah I don't think you got amazing value, but it's definitely decent.

I think its to high too.

Did we ever decide on 4 OF or 5 OF? I just noticed it says 5 in the league write-up, but I always thought it was 4. Oops?

I think these things are kinda flying under the radar (or at least for me).... I thought it was still 10% pay increase from year to year. Glad I checked the thread. With playing poker, doing fantasy draft prep, keeping up with the auction page, and still finishing out the season strong in my $1k fantasy hoops league its kinda hard to keep up with the back and forth of 10% pay increase, no pay increase, 5% pay increase.... 10% increase for bids in auction, $1 increase for bids in auction etc...

I do like the idea of being able to sign a player for cheaper. But if the increase is only 5% I mean whats the reward really at 2.5%? Say you have a high profile pitcher lets say Sabathia and you get him for $9.9 mil so you're happy and you're like I could pay that for 5 years. so you sign him for no pay increase as you suggested and then in year 2 he blows out his elbow never to throw another major league pitch again. We're going to hold teams to that 3 yrs remaining on his extension right? I mean risk/reward is way out of balance on something like that.

My apologies to the league I'm certainly not trying to give anyone an ulcer. I just see some potential problems and I'm bringing them up. I guess I'm not doing it in a way that seems helpful. So let me say, I'd like to be helpful.

Here's my 2 basic concerns.... 1) rules we have in place now on draft day will be changed later in the season and will have effected the draft strategy for teams and made 1 route more optimal than the other 2) We're going back and forth a little too much on the rules.

Neither of these are huge issues. I will enjoy this league pretty much no matter what b/c its pretty f*ing awesome. I just think those things can be worked upon and improved. From now on I'll just bring up the most important issues I see as throwing up headaches for us midseason and not every little possible problem I can imagine. Which I agree I was doing, but it was in an effort to help.

I have been thinking it was 5 and would like to keep it that way, unless someone outbids me on Holliday.

Pretty sure we agreed on 5.

It's 5 in the auction room to boot.

I was thinking 5 as well.

nominate some playazzzz

I am crushing this auction.

New rules proposal for next year :

Instead of it being $100 a person league, make it $1 for every million in salary 1-100, and $2 for every million 101-200. A 200m salary team will be 3x more expensive than 100m, and 6x more than a 50m team.