Determining Auction Hitter/Pitcher Split and Number of $1 Players

manbearpigs  3/9/2015 5:50 AM

I know this is a personal preference thing, and most people stick between 60-70% hitter (I tend to go 69% because I'm juvenile). I ALWAYS end up losing out at the top, but picking up plenty of value in the middle and bottom, which has worked well in the past, but I'm looking to eke out as much value as I can, so I'm really happy about the new $1 player settings. How do you determine the split and $1 player number in your league?

As an example, I'll use a standard 10 team ESPN league (13 hitter/9 pitcher/3 bench 25 total). I fiddled with the settings and compared them to the ESPN $ in the Draft Tracker, but no matter what I did, it always ended up with a lot of red (overvalued players) at the top and green in the middle, particularly the $18-30 range. I ended up setting $170/90 with 4 $1 hitters an 3 $1 pitchers.

Is it just true that it's better to ignore the top, fill up with high value $15-30 players, and aim to get some $3-5 players for $1? Or should I pay less attention to the $ value for the top players, "overpay" slightly for a stud, then try to get the value later on?

ken_admin  3/9/2015 9:34 AM

From what I've seen, you'll need to set your $1 of hitters/pitchers to about 1/3 of your total.  Typically, I will pay a more for the premier positions but not the more common since you can get a lot of those for little $ (I would watch the Positional Value).  As far as advice, I think it's different for each auction, and doing mocks doesn't help since computers end up doing most of the buying since it's hard to expect people to dedicate that much effort in a mock.