The 31st Player’s effect on Pricing

Hi Everybody!

So, the flex thing.  Chillo already wrote a fine piece on ways to use The Flex, and I don’t really have anything to add to that. But, I do want to look at the added player and how the added player affects team building from a price point of view. 

We used to have $10,000,000 for 30 players and now we have $10,000,000 for 31 players.  But to give us the same total amount of buying power, player prices were reduced to match.  Someone who used to cost $500,000 now costs $483,900.  That means the 30 player team we would have picked only costs us $9,677,400!  So we have an extra $322,600 left for player 31. 

Wow, an extra $322,600! We can add Mason Cox and have $14,800 left over!  That’s…not very existing at all. Well, if we pay up a bit, then we could get Oliver Hollands or Ryley Sanders for less than $20,000 more.  While chucking one of those guy in might be ok, or even good, well, that $322,600 is actually an awkward amount.

An easy way to deal with it financially is to add another cow.  Even if you spend $203,500 on that cow, that leaves 119,100 extra to spend on keepers.  As long as there is an extra cow worth buying of course. 

Another way to deal is to just take a mid-pricer around $322,600 and otherwise do what you would have done otherwise. 

What I bet will be the most common way to deal with it would be to not deal with it at all.  Pick a team based on available cows and then just fill in with who you can afford. Every year we have to fill up our team with non-cows and some years we have more cash to do that then others. So really, maybe the effect is sort of invisible and we sometimes have to stretch our money a little farther. 

Thanks for reading!