Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

[848]

I'm nearing the trade deadline, hovering around .500 and I want to make a push. Plenty of good vets on the trade block that I'd be interested in, problem is I'm right up against my budget limit.

I've made a trade before that put me over budget, but when I realized this I quickly made another move to drop down below the budget threshold. So it appears it's a "soft" cap so to speak.

But my question is whether or not exceeding the budget limit comes with any consequences. Has anybody gone over budget at the deadline and finished out their season?

[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Well I've played on about 3 weeks after the deadline, currently $8m over budget and haven't received any prompts or notifications related to it

My only concern is I'll be facing some sort of penalty in the offseason. Will have to wait and see I guess!

[ajblithe20]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

I'm not sure but I think you'll just have less room in the offseason. You probably won't be able to resign all of your big name guys in the offseason, and if you can, you won't have the room to sign any big time free agents.

Basically, I'm pretty sure you'll "feel" the penalty for going over budget when you try to resign or sign guys in the following offseason

[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Well if that's the case I might be alright. I have cliff lee and Fernando Rodney coming off the books and I have no intention of resigning them. That's a combined $24m in expiring contracts. And I also have Arod who is making $10m and I'm assuming he will retire after this season because he's 39.

So I have potentially 35-40 million coming off the books so hopefully I'm alright

[Jm0ney2001]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Seems like to start the franchise all of your players are in one year deals. So you pretty much keep who u can or want after the first season

[tessl]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

I'm not sure but I think you'll just have less room in the offseason. You probably won't be able to resign all of your big name guys in the offseason, and if you can, you won't have the room to sign any big time free agents.

Basically, I'm pretty sure you'll "feel" the penalty for going over budget when you try to resign or sign guys in the following offseason

Also can't sign draft picks.

[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

I've already signed my draft picks before I went over....so I should be good there. Hopefully all the money coming off the books in the offseason eliminates any penalties I'd face

[tabarnes19_SDS]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Also can't sign draft picks.

I think this year you can still sign picks while over. I believe I was over and signed them.

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[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Here's a little trick to shed some salary late in the year!

I was $8m over the budget, I just went into my scouting section and fired all of my scouts and hired the cheapest available ones. This saved me about $6m total, and since the scouts aren't scouting anybody during this time of the season it's not going to affect any scouting reports for the next seasons draft

[cardinalbird5]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Here's a little trick to shed some salary late in the year!

I was $8m over the budget, I just went into my scouting section and fired all of my scouts and hired the cheapest available ones. This saved me about $6m total, and since the scouts aren't scouting anybody during this time of the season it's not going to affect any scouting reports for the next seasons draft

Wow didn't know that.

Were you able to hire the good ones again next year? That would be the only drawback.

[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

It seems that you're allowed to hire/fire scouts at any time without any sort of penalty, unlike when you fire coaches.

But so far each offseason I've hired new scouts anyway so I assume it won't be a problem once I reach the offseason. But, I'm not entirely sure because I haven't simmed ahead into the future to find out. Crossing my fingers though!

[tabarnes19_SDS]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

It seems that you're allowed to hire/fire scouts at any time without any sort of penalty, unlike when you fire coaches.

But so far each offseason I've hired new scouts anyway so I assume it won't be a problem once I reach the offseason. But, I'm not entirely sure because I haven't simmed ahead into the future to find out. Crossing my fingers though!

Firing coaches right now has no penalty either. The money owed is credited back to the budget when you fire them.

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[848]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Firing coaches right now has no penalty either. The money owed is credited back to the budget when you fire them.

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Oh wow, interesting!

[Mrmagoo]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

Firing coaches right now has no penalty either. The money owed is credited back to the budget when you fire them.

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Why is that? I never fired one coz their contract wasnt up. It even states that if you fire them while still under contract you'll have to pay them accordingly. Why in the world are you credited the money back?? Another bug?

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[dregos]

Re: Does anything happen if you go over budget in franchise?

I always let the CPU handle the scouting and never hire / fire them because I think it is just cheesing the game. You should be penalized for having too many hefty contracts. Franchise mode is easy enough as it is with the flawed AI logic.

As for signing draft picks...you CAN'T sign them if you are over budget. However, you can set the CPU to handle contracts after you draft them which will allow your team to sign them (Automatically).