Need some help with the offseason blueprint tool

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hey all, could you give this a look over and see if there are things that should be changed or added? We're way behind on this tool and the person I delegated to was struggling quite a bit to come up with the right placeholders and options. If you have any suggestions what to fix, please mention it here!

https://northsidebaseball.com/payroll-blueprint

[Bertz]

Looks like Shota has his AAV of 13.25 instead of his actual salary of 13.5.  That minor nitpick is all I can find

Otherwise everything else looks right.  I generally tend to think of payroll in terms of LT dollars, but unlike some years this year there's not a lot of difference between actual salaries and AAVs so it's probably not worth nitpicking.  $241 LT payroll limit vs. $220 but ignoring benefits and minor leaguers is very tomayto tomahto.

[Brock Beauchamp]

6 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Looks like Shota has his AAV of 13.25 instead of his actual salary of 13.5.  That minor nitpick is all I can find

Otherwise everything else looks right.  I generally tend to think of payroll in terms of LT dollars, but unlike some years this year there's not a lot of difference between actual salaries and AAVs so it's probably not worth nitpicking.  $241 LT payroll limit vs. $220 but ignoring benefits and minor leaguers is very tomayto tomahto.

Yeah, picking a payroll number is always hard but in this system, there is no penalty or reward for going over/under, it's just a baseline number. Fixing Shota now, thanks.

[Stratos]

I use dark mode on the site and the headers look dark too in that mode so they're very hard to read.

Not really sure how to "add" free agents to the team.  Guess we just explain them in the text box and add up the salaries ourselves?  That would seem like something to automate.

[Brock Beauchamp]

16 hours ago, Stratos said:

I use dark mode on the site and the headers look dark too in that mode so they're very hard to read.

Not really sure how to "add" free agents to the team.  Guess we just explain them in the text box and add up the salaries ourselves?  That would seem like something to automate.

You add free agents to the 26-man list with a salary and the payroll adjusts accordingly. Then type up your reasoning on the right in the comments box.

Fixing the dark mode stuff today, hopefully can finish it.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Actually, I think I've found a way to improve the format of this, should have it updated tomorrow some time.

[Stratos]

5 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

You add free agents to the 26-man list with a salary and the payroll adjusts accordingly. Then type up your reasoning on the right in the comments box.

Fixing the dark mode stuff today, hopefully can finish it.

Ok so you do this all manually?  I'm using Firefox, seems like its only manual.  I would suggest having a way to drag and drop or something?

[Brock Beauchamp]

54 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Ok so you do this all manually?  I'm using Firefox, seems like its only manual.  I would suggest having a way to drag and drop or something?

It's something I'm considering for next year. I've never been happy with how this presents and I feel like I'm just barely getting it to a satisfactory point this year (its second year of existence).

Before two years ago, it was a spreadsheet we just shared with users and I've been working backward from that template, figuring out how to improve it. And it never gets enough of my attention for me to really fix what bugs me about it.

[mul21]

@Brock Beauchamp Jorge Lopez is missing from your FA RP section.  I'd also add Brandon Lowe to the trade pool.

Edited November 19, 2024 by mul21

[Brock Beauchamp]

3 hours ago, mul21 said:

@Brock Beauchamp Jorge Lopez is missing from your FA RP section.  I'd also add Brandon Lowe to the trade pool.

To avoid ridiculous complexity, we just went with MLBTR this year. Top 50 free agents and top 35 trade candidates. Obviously, the actual pool of players is much larger than this, it just becomes a massive undertaking to add all those players and come up with dollar amounts that feel right.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Who should I remove from the bullpen when I add Morgan?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Kilian

[Brock Beauchamp]

6 hours ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Kilian

Awesome, thanks!