Question for those who have tinkered with salary cap...

[Ben E Lou]

I haven't played with it at all, but I'd LOVE to figure out how to start a new career in 1980, sim 1980-2002, and then start at the beginning of 2003. Here's the catch: I'd like the salary cap to be right around $75M in 2003, without having inflation just turned off the whole time. A little help?

[Ben E Lou]

I'm playing with it now. So, if I start at $6M in 1980, and set the range from 1 to 5, would that give me an average increase of about $3M per year over 23 seasons ($69M) and put me around $75M?

[Eaglesfan27]

In theory it would. Hopefully, you get average increases over time.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Eaglesfan27
In theory it would. Hopefully, you get average increases over time. Well, considering I have to start at a minimum of $10M, I can't do it that way. I'm gonna try it with $10M start, and a range of $1M-$4.6M.

[Bee]

I started my career in 1960. I set the cap at 100 ($10 million) and increase range of 5 to 20.

It's now the year 2000 and the cap is $63,200,000. I was trying to hit around $70 million for 2003, so it looks like I'm on track. Don't know if this helps you or not.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Bee
I started my career in 1960. I set the cap at 100 ($10 million) and increase range of 5 to 20.

It's now the year 2000 and the cap is $63,200,000. I was trying to hit around $70 million for 2003, so it looks like I'm on track. Don't know if this helps you or not. Yup. Thanks!

--Ben

[Eaglesfan27]

*bonks head* The increase is per TV contract, so you have to have a much higher gain Skydog. As I'm sure you saw from Bee's post. So, based on the average length of the TV contracts you are going to want about 10 to 21 gain if I did my math correctly to obtain your goal for 2003. Of course, you could undershoot or overshoot based on probability.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Eaglesfan27
*bonks head* The increase is per TV contract, so you have to have a much higher gain Skydog. As I'm sure you saw from Bee's post. So, based on the average length of the TV contracts you are going to want about 10 to 21 gain if I did my math correctly to obtain your goal for 2003. Of course, you could undershoot or overshoot based on probability. Are you sure about that? I *think* the increase is a constant over each TV contract, that falls within the specified range. That's what I am seeing so far, at least.

[Eaglesfan27]

Good point, I shouldn't try to do math this quickly after waking up. I was making a couple of errors in my thought process. Sorry about that!

[Bee]

Also, you can adjust the growth rate as you go along if it's growing too fast or too slow. I didn't find a need to, but I did keep an eye on it every 10 years or so in case things got out of hand.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Bee
Also, you can adjust the growth rate as you go along if it's growing too fast or too slow. I didn't find a need to, but I did keep an eye on it every 10 years or so in case things got out of hand. Yeah. I thought about that too.

[Buccaneer]

What I would like to do (whenever I get around to start playing) is to start in 1970 at a low salary cap (how low, I don't know, maybe $10m so it'll be $75m in today's dollars?). It appears in order to do that I need to start in 1950 with a 1 in cap (or something)?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
What I would like to do (whenever I get around to start playing) is to start in 1970 at a low salary cap (how low, I don't know, maybe $10m so it'll be $75m in today's dollars?). It appears in order to do that I need to start in 1950 with a 1 in cap (or something)? As far as I can tell, there is a $10M minimum (at least with Heavy Reign created rosters).

[Bee]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
What I would like to do (whenever I get around to start playing) is to start in 1970 at a low salary cap (how low, I don't know, maybe $10m so it'll be $75m in today's dollars?). It appears in order to do that I need to start in 1950 with a 1 in cap (or something)?

Are you wanting to start in 1970 with 20 years already played? If so, you could set the growth rate to 0 for those 20 years and have the $10 million cap in 1970 (then adjust it to what growth rate you want when you take over).

[Buccaneer]

Originally posted by Bee
Are you wanting to start in 1970 with 20 years already played? If so, you could set the growth rate to 0 for those 20 years and have the $10 million cap in 1970 (then adjust it to what growth rate you want when you take over).

Great idea, thanks. I assume then I need to start with the default player file since it kinda failed when I used Shorty's OPU one.

[Bee]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
Great idea, thanks. I assume then I need to start with the default player file since it kinda failed when I used Shorty's OPU one.

I used HeavyReign's player file generator that's linked in the sticky thread (to get completely away from real players with fake names). It worked great for me and gave me a well-balanced starting league.

[Buccaneer]

To continue asking dumb questions, does the well-balanced starting league also gives a variety of salaries or does it all start out the same and then diverge over time?

[Buccaneer]

I did see in the said thread that there was a problem with that and it was fixed. Is that right?

[Bee]

The salaries vary.

[Bee]

Originally posted by Buccaneer
I did see in the said thread that there was a problem with that and it was fixed. Is that right?

I downloaded it after HR fixed it and didn't see any problems that SkyDog mentioned.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Bee
I downloaded it after HR fixed it and didn't see any problems that SkyDog mentioned. Confirm. The problem is now fixed.

[kcchief19]

I haven't played with the salary cap feature too much, but if you are starting in 1980 with a salary cap of $10m and you want it to be $75m by 2003, then you want an increase of around $2.8 million per year ($65m/23 years).

If you put 28 in the min cap and 29 in the max cap, won't you exactly what you need? Or does the cap increase vary outside the min/max?