ROTISSERIE: $1,000 FAAB vs $100
Jun 12 2012
Recently, BaseballHQ.com publisher Ron Shandler sent a note to a few BHQ analysts about a curiosity he’d noticed.
After four or five seasons and 15-20 leagues, Ron had informally observed differences in bidding levels between leagues with $100 FAAB budgets (Tout Wars, LABR) and leagues with $1,000 FAAB budgets (FSTA, NFBC).
You’d expect that bids would be relatively equal, with bids in the $1,000 leagues more or less 10x the bids in the $100 leagues. If there was any departure, you'd think bids would run higher in the $1,000 leagues, given the seemingly ample extra resources available to bidders.
But the opposite was true. Bids were relatively higher in the $100 leagues!
For example, Ron reported that Scott Downs (LHRP, LAA)...
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