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Originally Posted by KWhit
Has anyone tried to run a career playing with a lower salary cap than all other teams? I was thinking of giving this a go (it has worked fairly well for a challenge in OOTP). Basically, play full out - no house rules except that your salary cannot exceed a certain percentage of the current league salary cap. I'm not sure what an appropriate number would be - maybe 75%.
I haven't played SP in a while, so I'm not sure if this would be enough of a challenge. It may be too easy to fill the roster with cheap free agents and keep your salary low.
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Originally Posted by QuikSand
For me, this turned out to be surprisingly easy to overcome.
In FOF 2004, there are quite a lot of solid players who simply don't get big contracts every year. Frequently, they are sitting around in the after-draft late free agency, dropping their demands, and often open to very affordable deals.
If you avoid committing big money and signing bonuses to single star players (including top draft picks) and focus on spending wisely among affordabl free agents and promising youngsters... it's not too tough to put together a dominating team for half the league's salary cap.
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Perhaps a limit on how many players you can sign in late free agency might boost the challenge. Reduce your cap by a certain % and perhaps allow yourself one guilty pleasure from the post draft FA pool. It might offer a decent challenge, as you might not be able to keep those high priced superstars. Yet, it doesn't really limit the player pool too much to make it a luck of the draw situation.
By limiting your splash in the late FA pool you not only hamper your own ability to pick up cheap, quality players, but you also help boost the AI teams by allowing them to pick up those cheap, good players.
I would imagine that this type of challenge would result in acquiring a large number of 'specialists' such as an offensive line that is very good in pass blocking but putrid in run blocking, thus making them more affordable. It would probably result in pretty good success in the regular season, but failure in the playoffs when you meet up with more talented and balanced teams.
Just tossing out an idea, FWIW.