Plaw and I have been discussing the league settings and he will be making three hopefully innocuous changes:
1 - After the draft is over, players go on waivers instead of the free agency list. This change was made to give people a couple of days to study their teams and see who is available rather than being obligated to do this studying immediately.
2 - Wins count for +7 instead of +6
3 - Save Opportunities count for -6 instead of -4
For the last two, Plaw and I discussed the "breakeven" concept - i.e. what type of record should a pitcher have to be considered average. An average pitcher should get no points.
We agreed that the breakeven point for a starting pitcher should be .461 since a win is harder to get than a loss. With change #2, if a pitcher has 6 wins and 7 losses, he gets no points for those wins and losses.
We also agreed that the breakeven point for a closer should be .750 - i.e. he should convert 3 out of 4 save opportunities. Change #3 corrects for this.
