Sorry..response to your post got posted before your post.

Here it is again.

Thanks Alex. If I have a 12 team league in the software, are the Patton$ based on the 12 team league while PK's bids remain for 13 teams?

Thanks Alex. If I have a 12 team league in the software, are the Patton$ based on the 12 team league while PK's bids remain for 13 teams?

The "bid" column is blank because this the column for your own bids. The recommended procedure:

Take PK5, MF5 or AP4 bids as your starting point. Use Transfer Values to copy one of these sets of bids to your own Bid column. Then enter the freezes prices in your league INTO THE BID COLUMN.

Using Mesoraco, for example, if you are using Peter's 5x5 bids, you enter 0 in place of 7. Peter's prices add up (more or less exactly) to standard 13-team NL budgets, which means that you now have $7 to spend on other players that is not being spent on Mesoraco.

That's the simplest and far the best way to deal with inflation.

Lots of vendors will say they will do this for you. And maybe they will. But that's not the way you want to do it. You should do a little bit of work yourself -- it actually qualifies as fun work, because you get to jack the prices of the players that you like -- and then keep checking the totals at the bottom in the software (or the Excel spreadsheet, which also comes with Patton $ Online) to see if they add up.

Dr. G - the software will not do the redistribution for you...you will need to do it manually. I use the blank "bid" column to put in my prices...when I first started out with the software, I would filter to see either Alex 4x4 bids or Peter/Mike 5x5 bids and my own bids for gut check purposes.

Thanks everybody. Alex, unfortunately its not my farm team. These are examples of players on various teams of the league that are at $0.

Alex, if I add say $3 to a top player under bid value do I need to subtract $3 elsewhere or does the software do that?

What Toz says, Doc G.

The software does calculate the inflation, once you've entered all the freezes in your league, but it is indeed "an unbiased blanket distribution." Much better to assign the money that you need to assign after entering the freeze lists to the available players on a case by case basis, with the best getting the lion's share.

A nice farm team you have assembled!

Mike, I assume since the inflation calculation utilizes total value and we are taking about $50 off of the total value of the league, then these players at $0 will contribute to inflation even though they are not on the 23 man roster. These guys are $0 reserves until activated after the auction (then become $5).

Toz, so it sounds like I should take the total Patton$ value of each of those players and manually alter the bids of, say, the best players available....that is the way I should do it? The software will not redistribute the money by itself? Although I assume if it did it would be an unbiased blanket distribution, since that is the way inflation is actually calculated, i.e the heavy and light hitters are adjusted by the same %.

Dr. G: I consulted with my inflation expert, Mike Gianella, and we agree. Take the bids off the $0 guys and list them as reserves. Redistribute the money to other players in the auction, which leaves the auction money in the pool and takes out the guys on reserve. This should leave your inflation calculation correct.

Do they not cost anything even if they start the year in the majors? That's the only way they would contribute to inflation. If they aren't on the 23-man roster, and don't affect what you pay for the guys that do, it's just free stats during the year.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, though. If you're asking about the auction software, I'd say keep the reserve-list players outside the auction, just on a list in a word or excel file. Players who can't be bought at auction should be excluded, no? (Have to admit, it's been a long time since I used the auction software, so I could be wrong about that.)

In Patton$ software, I need to put in our minor leaguers who are held in reserve at $0. How do I put that into the software so it contributes to the calculation of inflation? Reserve at $0? They are not taking up a 23 man slot, so putting them frozen at $0 is not quite right.

Not sure the difference it would make. These guys are at $0.
Cozart, Brothers, Harper, Alonso, Mesoraco, Teheran, Vizcaino, BJackson.
Its over $50 worth.