now my goal in this game is to master the TL -- every season it makes a fool out of me:
like others, i was fooled by the late season rush by many managers to buy anybody that could help with salvaging the season or winning. prices were crazy.
the initial post-"playoff eligibility" period brought a different set of bidders, including myself. having a few bucks in the bank and, in retrospect, little patience, a number of young (below 32) players went for extraordinary amounts. Hinkle's price was very much an anomaly, one that i still don't understand, but i bet we see him on the market sometime this season and he will go for well over $4 million then.
now we have moved to very discriminating buyers -- a buyer's market, i suppose -- where to be over 32 or over is to be treated as extraordinarily toxic. i have my Pintore for sale, well below what BB thought was his market value (which i now realize reflects the late-season madness, not now) and he is drawing very little interest and certainly no bids. i figure there is a pretty decent chance he is not sold, and a good likelihood he is sold to the first bidder, with a small chance of a bidding war among the managers who have bookmarked him (which would mean a higher price for me!). i'm in a position to live with any result, but with a little sense i could have had a much better outcome.
