You get what you pay for.
Average 2016 Winning Bids by Position
C - $1,677,647
1B - $2,362,727
2B - $1,348,750
SS - $725,000
3B - $2,830,000
OF - $4,680,833
DH - $2,870,000
SP - $3,591,207
RP - $1,7969,186
Highest Paid 2016 Contracts by Position
C AJ Pierzynski - $4,800,000
1B Chris Davis - $7,250,000
2B - Logan Forsythe - $4,250,000
SS - Alcides Escobar - $1,750,000
3B - Kyle Seager - $8,000,000
OF - Giancarlo Stanton - $16,200,000
DH - David Ortiz - $7,980,000
SP - Jake Arrietta - $ 14,000,000
RP - Mark Melancon - $6,250,000
Interesting Facts
1. We only had 4 shortstops selected in Free Agency last year.
2. There were only 5 starting pitchers signed for more than $7m.
3. There were only 7 players signed for more than $10m in all of Free Agency.
4. There were only 20 players signed for more than $5m in all of Free Agency.
If I get time I'll throw together some pivot tables and graphs, but in the mean time I'll attach the spreadsheet. Note that I had to pull this data from the old forums so the formatting is a bit weird. In addition I used a macro to convert the salary to a dollar amount. I didn't see any errors but there could be some.
Here is some quick analysis for the results of 2016 Free Agency.
The blue bar is the actual salary cost while the orange and grey lines represent the relative value. You would want the data point for each year to be within the actual cost.
(http://www.runningrum.com/sources/images/sp_cost.png)
Darrell:
I'm not sure what that means. For Acrual salary (which I presume should be actual), is that MLB salary and the lines are cost in MSB? Because Liriano's numbers seem out of wack - his actual salary in real life was 13.6M in 2016 which isn't reflected by any of those lines or bars.
That's strange. I edited that typo in the original but its not updating.
The blue bar is their actual DMB salary. The 2016 and 2017 lines represent
relative value versus MLB production. There should be a third axis on this chart referencing that relative value.
Liriano's salary is $10,000,000. In 2016 that was great value.
84 FIP-
.72 HR/9
1.21 WHIP
etc.
But in 2017 those numbers went to
119 FIP-
1.44 HR/9
1.48 WHIP
etc.
There is little doubt that
@profjason and
@tigersfancj and others with actual skill and knowledge in this area would do this VERY differently, but every time I send an intake for DMB analysis to my corporate Strategic Analysis team I don't receive an appropriate response.
Okay I might change the years from 2016 and 2017 to 2015 and 2016 as it really is a reference to those real life seasons (and their impact on the 2016 and 2017 DMB seasons).
Also, without that third axis, the graph currently makes it appear like you are establishing a dollar value relative to their production in those years. So I read it as Liriano being worth $25 million in 2017, which didn't make any sense.
Here is the analytics department for the ACLs. Please do not think we have a plan, we don't want anyone to know that. :)
(http://www.delhidailynews.com/news_image/1398316016Monkey-Math.jpg)
I hacked Sweet's servers and found this formula: Y = C + I + G + (X − M)!!!!!
It's actually Y = C + I + G + (X * M), but who's counting...
I can tell who had a problem in my Principles of Macroeconomics course. :)
Thanks for the reminder about Liriano!!!