I had some time on my hands over weekend so decided to track average WAR, average PP earned per year, etc. on all the players on my roster for each of my teams. Here is the result for my Southpaws:
Batters:
Code:
Player OVR POS WAR OPS+ pp/year AH price
Smoky Burgess 86 C 3.8 116 248 14000
Carlton Fisk 89 C 1.3 78 61 5500
Rod Carew 87 1B 2.8 123 729 12000
Jose Reyes 73 1B 0.6 101 133 1200
Wade Boggs 89 2B 2.9 104 54 11000
Jim Gilliam 83 2B,SS 2.9 90 77 10000
Arky Vaughan 97 3B 4.1 138 1528 42700
Johnny Pesky 84 SS 2.5 85 105 16000
Darin Erstad 84 LF 4.6 108 151 7400
Cy Seymour 97 LF,RF 5.2 127 604 67000
Lenny Dykstra 91 CF 6.2 105 100 23000
Tony Gwynn 76 DH 1.8 117 202 4300
Al Kaline 84 RF,CF 2.5 88 66 7200
Carl Yastremski 100 RF,DH 4.0 145 1050 83000
Totals 87.1 3.4 109 5109 304300
Pitchers:
Code:
Player OVR POS WAR ERA+ pp/year AH price
Hal Newhouser 97 SP 3.8 111 724 47000
Clayton Kershaw 97 SP 3.3 105 1134 38500
CC Sabathia 94 SP 3.2 115 731 29500
Eddie Plank 94 SP 2.7 94 173 20000
Lefty Gomez 97 SP 2.8 111 1101 30800
Bruce Sutter 89 RP 4.5 152 291 12000
Pedro Borbon 80 RP 0.8 107 20 4000
Hersh Freeman 77 RP 1.6 99 18 2000
Dennis Eckersly 89 RP 2.3 138 146 9500
Bret Saberhagen 93 RP 0.6 112 41 17000
Steve Howe 77 RP 0.0 101 10 1050
Totals 89.4 2.3 113.2 4389 211350
For batters, average WAR was calculated by normalizing to 600 PA/year, for pitchers, average WAR was calculated by normalizing to 200 IP/year. So, relievers and substitutes show higher WAR than they actually got. This was averaging across all seasons in perfect league, but not before they got to perfect. Since this covers a ten-year span, this eases out the year-to-year variations..
Takeaways: there is definitely a pretty strong correlation between average WAR and PP/year but not perfect. For example, Arky Vaughan, who is a good hitter and a nonspectacularly fielding 3B, led all players in PP earned per year, but is only the fourth most expensive player on roster, and is only fifth in average WAR.
On the other hand, Lenny Dykstra leads my team in average WAR but only has 100 pp earned per year. I think, in general, this is the case for great fielders who are average or worse at the plate --- Pesky, Gilliam, and Kaline are other good fielders who suck at earning PP.
Inerestingly, the strongest correlation is between pitcher cost on AH and average WAR for the starting pitchers. The order between average WAR and average price for the starting pitchers is exactly the same.
If people find this interesting, I will post the same information about the Energizer Bunnies (and even possibly, the Caspers, though they are not an OL team).
One interesting tidbit: Since I had some pack luck with this team, the overall AH value of my roster is just over 500,000 PP. For my other two teams, it is closer to 300,000 PP.