Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Finally got my exports WORKING and got my GOAT back to WBL. MOAR SIMS
What’s a fragile?If he wasn't fragile I'd hold Orlando hostage for the 4 pick
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Into my WBL rotation:
P Flipp Zasypkin
SP Leen Wabeke
Demote from rotation:
Jesús Castro
Kadir bin Farid
Arms fall offPitch counts or throw them until their arms fall off?
Dusty forever
My salaries are ok. My owner for some reason is acting like a complete bastard. I actually don't know what I'm doing wrong to be honest. Winning games is all very well, but I have no money to fill the holes. I'm worried now this is a vicious circle and I won't have the money to sign my draft picks.
Your salaries are still pretty respectable, meanwhile I am paying 45M for 3 DHs
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Welcome to my world since 2062. The financial engine in this game is still broken but the HAVES don't want to hear that...
Meh, I think the nature of our set up is forgiving to high budget teams, so it’s less about “how do I increase my budget” and more “how do I ever catch up?”
If I was in BUILDING mode, I would avoid large long term contracts. TBONE is a great player, but do you have the luxury of paying a GOAT when you're a building franchise? I'm not sure. Anyway, what happens if he gets hurt or declines? He's producing now, but I'd hate to see a $15M BUM on your roster in 2084.
The only really puzzling salary you have is that TOM PYKE bum. He's not even an American, lol.
Keep in mind you have a draft budget which is separate from your main budget, so your available money for FA doesn't take into account whatever that amount is in order to sign picks
Also to double keep in mind, draft pick signing happens after the new year's budgets, so you can always release guys on arb to make room if needed
Well, I looked at the financials, and it said cash from owner -11,000,000 last year, which was also the operating loss, and the reason he squeezed the budget. Before that, he was topping up the cash, so fuck knows what's happened. At this rate, it's going to be impossible to get the team going again without trading the three good players I have on long term contracts. It doesn't seem at all logical to me, as I'm not paying anyone a large amount who isn't worth it , and those who I am are very good value (apart from a pitcher who I over paid and is on 8m).
Your budget is almost entirely dependent on last season's regular season revenue, then you get up to $10M in cash if you operated at a profit last year. Last year you operated at a loss, therefore you don't get the extra $10M in cash.
It looks like you have your ticket prices set very low ($12-13 based on last year's financial report?) This helped you generate a good amount of attendance, but it also really limited how much money you made. You had more attendance than I did last season, but my tickets are $31-32 each, so I made like 3x as much in gate/season ticket revenue as you did. I recommend increasing ur ticket prices to at least $20 and then slowly increasing from there each season as you begin to win more. There is a bit of a balancing act here, but it is definitely better to sell slightly fewer tickets at a higher price than regularly be selling out ur stadium at a low price.
@hayvis a few short term solutions
- you can sell picks or players for cash. If you’ve got a decent prospect who maybe you don’t need or who’s blocked by a better player, consider selling him (this was pretty easy at one point, probably less so now with owners)
- trade your picks for youngsters about to break through, either on the minimum or not on a WBL contract yet
- try and add some popular guys who are cheap via different avenues (trade, FA) whose attendance impact will outweigh their salary
For long term, you ultimately have to be cheap and successful for a few years to build things up. I got mocked for it but what worked for me was I had a window in mind that I wanted to try and grow my budget. So basically I tried to build a core group all roughly the same age who would be on the minimum and arb together so that I had room to add missing pieces in the areas where I was short. By the time they all started to get expensive, my budget had jumped up so I could afford them.
The hard part is getting over the initial hurdle. I agree with you that it makes it tough for a new owner to keep interest