Franchise Budget Question

[slyfox]

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From what I've gathered.....contract lengths are ok, but real dollar figures throw it off. I would encourage you to ask for more information in the rosters forum for ways to make contract lengths work.

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[Unlucky 13]

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From what I've gathered.....contract lengths are ok, but real dollar figures throw it off. I would encourage you to ask for more information in the rosters forum for ways to make contract lengths work.

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The dollars are just as important to me. Thank you, and I'll browse that forum. I've never wandered into that section before.

[Vanilla_Gorilla]

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I'm really confused on how the budgets work. I thought I knew, but after my recent White Sox franchise season end. I'm more confused than ever.

When I entered into Year 1 offseason I had about 64 million in the bank(63.75 exactly) with a cash flow of 1.11 million and a team revenue of 3.3 Million

When I exited Offseason I had a cash flow of 2.35 million.

Entering in the season I have a revenue of 3.5 million and a cash flow of 695k where the heck did all my money go?

I didn't hardly sign anybody I signed 8 players total. 2 were traded. 3 were youngsters on Minor league contracts and the other 3 aren't making more than 1.1 million a year.

I finished the year 77-85

[Unlucky 13]

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I'm really confused on how the budgets work. I thought I knew, but after my recent White Sox franchise season end. I'm more confused than ever.

When I entered into Year 1 offseason I had about 64 million in the bank(63.75 exactly) with a cash flow of 1.11 million and a team revenue of 3.3 Million

When I exited Offseason I had a cash flow of 2.35 million.

Entering in the season I have a revenue of 3.5 million and a cash flow of 695k where the heck did all my money go?

I didn't hardly sign anybody I signed 8 players total. 2 were traded. 3 were youngsters on Minor league contracts and the other 3 aren't making more than 1.1 million a year.

I finished the year 77-85

Those are really great questions. Its something that the team at SDS really needs to patch.

[Vanilla_Gorilla]

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Those are really great questions. Its something that the team at SDS really needs to patch.

My payroll only increased by about 5 million I think, but even then the bank revenue increase should've easily covered that.

[moTIGS]

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Thankfully I've rarely found myself in a position where the budget has mattered, as I've given up trying to make it make sense.

I more or less just treat it as I'm working for an owner whose goal is to make money, so the budget is whatever arbitrary number they give me and everything else is theirs to keep.

I really hope the system gets an overhaul next year.

And if not an overhaul, at least give us the option to turn it off (and adjust other things like team control) without restarting a franchise.

[Vanilla_Gorilla]

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Thankfully I've rarely found myself in a position where the budget has mattered, as I've given up trying to make it make sense.

I more or less just treat it as I'm working for an owner whose goal is to make money, so the budget is whatever arbitrary number they give me and everything else is theirs to keep.

I really hope the system gets an overhaul next year.

And if not an overhaul, at least give us the option to turn it off (and adjust other things like team control) without restarting a franchise.

I like how the system works they just need to take some more time and effort into accurately explaining it. They give next to no tutorial at all on how it works and the complicated method behind it.

Your revenue increase is based upon your record(attendance in irl, reflected by record in game) and bank, but they give no set in stone numbers on how the money transfers which leaves us confused as all hell.

[Other Guy]

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I see my weekly cash flow available and multiply that by 26 weeks and it gives me a rough estimate of what I have to spend.

Thanks for this! I just finished my first off-season, and using this guideline, I had no problems. I started with a cash flow 3.09M.

3,090,000 weekly x 26.7 weeks = 82,500,000 roughly.

So I had 82.5M to resign my guys and any new FAs. I kept all but a few of my guys, and signed a couple of role player FA's. I didn't go after big FAs (Harper, Bumgarner) and I missed out on Arrieta because I didn't want to pay what the Cubs offered.

After all that, my final cash flow was 0.682M weekly or 18.2M. I kinda left a lot on the table, but didn't want to spend needlessly. I hope it rolls over to next year. I did not have any contract offers cancelled or run into any budget restrictions of any kind. As far as the bank amount goes, I have no idea. I just ignored it completely.

[countryboy]

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Thanks for this! I just finished my first off-season, and using this guideline, I had no problems. I started with a cash flow 3.09M.

3,090,000 weekly x 26.7 weeks = 82,500,000 roughly.

So I had 82.5M to resign my guys and any new FAs. I kept all but a few of my guys, and signed a couple of role player FA's. I didn't go after big FAs (Harper, Bumgarner) and I missed out on Arrieta because I didn't want to pay what the Cubs offered.

After all that, my final cash flow was 0.682M weekly or 18.2M. I kinda left a lot on the table, but didn't want to spend needlessly. I hope it rolls over to next year. I did not have any contract offers cancelled or run into any budget restrictions of any kind. As far as the bank amount goes, I have no idea. I just ignored it completely.

You're welcome!

I honestly have no idea if my "formula" is 100% accurate, but it worked for me. And you.

[Unlucky 13]

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Thanks for this! I just finished my first off-season, and using this guideline, I had no problems. I started with a cash flow 3.09M.

3,090,000 weekly x 26.7 weeks = 82,500,000 roughly.

So I had 82.5M to resign my guys and any new FAs. I kept all but a few of my guys, and signed a couple of role player FA's. I didn't go after big FAs (Harper, Bumgarner) and I missed out on Arrieta because I didn't want to pay what the Cubs offered.

After all that, my final cash flow was 0.682M weekly or 18.2M. I kinda left a lot on the table, but didn't want to spend needlessly. I hope it rolls over to next year. I did not have any contract offers cancelled or run into any budget restrictions of any kind. As far as the bank amount goes, I have no idea. I just ignored it completely.

Holy cow! How did you manage to profit 3mil every week? Did you start with a big budget team and slash them to start over? I'm way, way under budget with the Cubs and I get about 1 mil/week. I've had times where its been under 300k.

[countryboy]

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I shared two screens from my in season franchise to show what I did in the offseason and it worked. (thanks to those on OS that shared this)

Basically if you take your weekly cash flow and multiply it by 26, you'll get your remaining/available budget. (26 isn't exact but its close enough)

Example below:

My remaining budget is $38.31M

If I go into the free agent screen, I see that my max weekly offer is $1.47M. Take 1.47 times 26 and you'll get $38.22M, which is close enough. The closer to exact, if not exact number would be 26.0612245.

Hope this helps.
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[Unlucky 13]

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So, lets say that you profit 1 million a week for 26 weeks. Does that mean that you cannot spend more than 26 million on players the coming offseason? No matter how much budget room that you show? That seems to be badly, badly broken.

[countryboy]

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So, lets say that you profit 1 million a week for 26 weeks. Does that mean that you cannot spend more than 26 million on players the coming offseason? No matter how much budget room that you show? That seems to be badly, badly broken.

Not sure I'm understanding what you're asking.

The amount it shows for your weekly cash flow, you take that amount and multiply it by 26 and that is your remaining budget, or very close to it.

[coach422001]

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Not sure I'm understanding what you're asking.

The amount it shows for your weekly cash flow, you take that amount and multiply it by 26 and that is your remaining budget, or very close to it.

Almost all my teams had in-season profit per week of < 1 million but had plenty of money (save the Red Sox and Astros) to spend in free agency and re-signs. Doesn't the off-season free agent window show you what your budget is before and what it is after the offer you're showing, in both per week and absolute budget? The one thing I haven't come across is the situation where at the end of the season a team has about 5 million in the bank (i.e. they were losing money per week during the year). That I can see having a big impact on what the final number for off season spend could be. So currently my Astros are -18K per week. So the amount the owner will give from the bank portion is going to be minimal compared to other teams. Someone else had just about worked out the formula in one of the other threads on this topic, but suffice to say that I would need to start slashing the 'stros budget to get a better off season budget

[Unlucky 13]

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Not sure I'm understanding what you're asking.

The amount it shows for your weekly cash flow, you take that amount and multiply it by 26 and that is your remaining budget, or very close to it.

Well, lets say that at the start in one year of my franchise, I have a budget of 200 million dollars.

At the trading deadline at the end of July, I trade away players with contracts totalling 80 million dollars, and don't add any large ones. (just prospects)

To me, logically, that means that I should go into the following offseason with at least 80 million in budget space. Regardless of how much profit my team has made weekly. That's pretty much how it always worked in previous versions. 80 million that I can spend signing free agents from other teams or extending my own guys.

However, it doesn't seem like that is the case now. Does that make sense?