ROTISSERIE: Dealing with a tight in-season salary cap
Jul 11 2013
Your keeper league enacted an in-season cap or tightened an existing one in response to those dreaded “dump” trades that begin popping up like so many weeds at this time of year.
What many may not yet fully appreciate is that, in addition to restricting player movement, they have also disrupted the value of most of the players in your league pool.
If your in-season cap is tight enough, the absolute value of a player matters less than the ratio of expected value to salary. There are only so many $45 Miguel Cabreras (probably no more than one) you can fit under the cap. But you can fit several $10 Nate McLouths onto your roster with room to spare.
Tight in-season salary caps also lead to an unintended consequence that, in a sense,...
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