I voted âExclusively Off-season Planningâ, but I wanted to clarify that I just donât really use the Roster Organizer for anything from Opening Day until either when I decide to sell or towards the trade deadline. And then I use it for ânext season planning.â
Iâm constantly using it, switching between this year and next. When Iâm shopping I plot out my roster and what it would look like with additions/subtractions. When Iâm looking towards next year, Iâll add phantom players to represent arbitration and allocations. This way I can have a grasp of what my off season focus should be.
I use the roster organizer year round; itâs one of the most useful tools on the site IMO. I find it quite effective when mulling trade offers, always with an eye toward the future. I feel it would be beneficial to add $2 player salary increases and future position eligibility to present a more accurate depiction of next seasonâs roster. It would also be helpful to include a box where you can manually enter a rough estimate of arbitration allocation. I tend to make a rough calculation in my head.
I donât care who gets arb dollars on my team, so instead of using the organizer Iâll usually just export my roster in excel. Then add the standard league inflation of $1-$2 and then $33 to the bottom line salary. Gives me a worst case scenario of who to cut going into next season. If we could have the ability to assign arb dollars for next year based on what we think will happen that will make it so much more functional as a future planning tool in season.
When you add a target on the Roster Organizer, is it supposed to search for the player in our league and then populate their stats? Because itâs not doing that in my browser - Iâm running Safari version 15.1 on a Mac - and instead itâs just accepting the name as plain text. For instance, I enter âC.J. Cronâ and it doesnât suggest his name, and then no stats appear next to his name. Is that how itâs supposed to work? Thanks!