15.0 Player Salaries
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Modified 11/29/2020
This page was updated and reorganized. The primary
change is that the salary calculation formulas that were
only present in the old written rule book (2008) were moved
to the web. Perhaps later in the off season, the
salary cap calculation will also be copied over.
15.2.5.3 Maximum salary for players who were
below salary 250 in the previous season
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Added 10/29/2020
In another attempt to limit bizarre and unintended
massive jumps in salary from one year to the next, there
will be limits on a new salary for players who had salaries
below 250 in a previous season:
- Calculate player salaries as normal - using
statistics from the current season and plugging into the
equation of 2/3 of this season's stat calculation + 1/3
of the current season's salary
- Inspect new salaries and limit as necessary:
- For players with salary this year of 100, the
maximum new salary will be 4000
- For players with salary this year between 101
and 250, the maximum new salary will be 5000
- If appropriate, players with limited salaries may
have additional increases during the Premium Player
Salary Adjustment phase
BWB Comments:
Partially related to the unique situation of the
pandemic-affected 2020 season, Devin Williams' 2021 salary
would have jumped from 100 to 7741. Despite an excellent
stat line (a 0.33 ERA and almost 2 K/IP), the shortened
season contributed to that large increase - a longer season
would likely have had evened out things. Rather than
to try to adjust the overall formula - and to prevent
Williams from being out of the price range for most teams in
2021 that had not signed him to a contract (primarily for
new 2021 leagues), I decided to add this in as a tool for
this year and a safeguard for future seasons.
The initial raw salary calculation for Williams was
11590. Because of
Rule 15.2.5.1 that limited salary increases from
player-to-player to 10%, his raw salary was reduced down to
9959 (producing a 2021 salary of 6705 and then 7741 after
the premium adjustments). Williams' final 2021 salary is
4640 after 16% was added in premium adjustments.
In the BWB history, this would have only been invoked a
few times, here are jumps of players from salary 250 or
lower to over 4000 (final results after premium player
salary increases):
| ID | Last | First | First Season | First Season Salary | Next Season | Next Season Salary |
|---|
| P9979 | Williams | Devin | 2020 | 100 | 2021 | 7741 |
| B3185 | Judge |
Aaron | 2017 |
105 | 2018 |
4975 |
| P0038 | Turnbow | Derrick | 2005 | 102 | 2006 | 4693 |
| P5124 | Papelbon | Jonathan | 2006 | 200 | 2007 | 4318 |
| B9714 | Trout | Mike | 2012 | 153 | 2013 | 4279 |
| P8408 | Hammond | Chris | 2002 | 100 | 2003 | 4109 |
| P3044 | Webb | Brandon | 2003 | 100 | 2004 | 4062 |
When looking at this list, the jumps for Judge and Trout
were probably justified, and so I created one tier at
players with salary 100 and another for salaries 101-250.
This will likely get tweaked again.
15.2.5.4 BWB Discretion to Adjust Salary
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Added 10/29/2020
With this rule, BWB reserves the right to adjust salaries
after the calculations are complete. I've never really
considered manually adjusting salaries - mostly because
there was no provision in the rules for that. However,
once in awhile there have been ridiculous salary jumps -
mostly in relief pitchers with a combination of low ERA,
lots of saves, and few if any blown saves (while blown saves
are not part of the BWB game score, they were added to the
salary calculation to try to limit big jumps).
So, in the past we've had jumps like:
- Eric Gagne: 7408 to 17609 in 2004
- Fernando Rodney: 527 to 15181 in 2013
- Zack Britton: 3475 to 15007 in 2017
This is not intended to prevent salaries over 10000, but
instead to look for anomalies that should be fixed. It
would be used very rarely, if at all, but provides a
mechanism to adjust if necessary.
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