Confused by Franchise Budgets

[aboveprimetime]

Hello

So im doing a franchise starting off with the 1995 rosters. I'm a Braves guy so I'm using the braves. Im so confused by the budget and the payroll and how much you can spend. After 1 season, Maddox is making 31 million a season, Chipper is making 30 million and then Mcgriff is rocking at 19 million, and everyone else is pretty cheap, but after 1 season I don't even have the money avail to hire a coach. I had to cut some guys just to have enough money. I'm now dealing with some injuries and cant sign any free agents cause no more money! I'am confused as to how it works, looks like it goes by weekly or whatever. Any help explaining how it works? I got 3 guys on my team accounting for 78 million a year towards the payroll, and it looks like total we are at like 145 million, which i think it low??? I should have funds

[coach422001]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Typically to give you an idea of what the annual budget would be take the projected weekly intake and multiply by 26 (about the number of weeks in a season).

From what you're saying then i would expect that you'd taking in about 2.5 million a week if you take that 145 million, subtract out the 78 million and divide the difference by 26 (of course you have more players under contract so my numbers won't be precise).

[Ace2734]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

I turned budgets off. It makes no sense and is installed poorly. I still keep teams’ payroll under revenue but when I had budgets on, after like 3 years teams couldn’t sign anyone.


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[bravesfan1984]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Budgets off, problem solved

[Gagnon39]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Dang, too late for me on this. Oh, well. I usually add some budget money via stubs if necessary.

[Syrjis]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Budgets off, problem solved

So is better to play franchise mode with or without budgets?

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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I gave up in budgets and turned them off. They don't work right and the logic was never tuned to work with real contracts.

I love having the budgets, but they need major work. Even with budgets off teams try to stay within budget constraints.

Although the financial system was far from perfect what they did to the budget system is atrocious. No one should have to use a calculator and have an accounting degree to figure out a budget. Players are paid by year. Contracts are related to in years, why confuse with weekly?

The old system of budget increase decrease based on performance was much better.

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[Gocanes44]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Can we get a poll on this? Im at the AS break of season 1. I Have never played the show before this year. Im debating on having budgets on or off, and what will work best for realism in my franchise mode for years to come.

[bravesfan1984]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Can we get a poll on this? Im at the AS break of season 1. I Have never played the show before this year. Im debating on having budgets on or off, and what will work best for realism in my franchise mode for years to come.

Off, but you'd have to restart you franchise to change that option

[bravesfan1984]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

So is better to play franchise mode with or without budgets?

Unless you want to run into issues down the road, off...

[tessl]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

For reasons which remain a mystery they changed part of the salary calculations to weekly which needlessly confuses the process. Part is listed as yearly, part as weekly.

I believe the calculation is based on 28 weeks to figure annual salary. It's a mess.

[Gocanes44]

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Off, but you'd have to restart you franchise to change that option

Ouch. Just going to stick with it on. What kind of problems can I look forward to?

[countryboy]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Ouch. Just going to stick with it on. What kind of problems can I look forward to?

I play with budgets on. I have a carryover save from 2016 that I'm currently playing year 2025 on, so I've played 9 full seasons with budgets, and I don't see any major issues.

The only thing that bothered me was when they went to real contract values, in the offseason of my carryover, they re-figured the contracts to mesh with the new feature and it caused some contracts, especially to aging veterans to become significantly inflated. However, after that season and going into the next offseason, it started working itself out.

The only crutch I provide to the CPU teams is that I will go in and lower an aging veterans attributes so that his overall rating is 1, so they will retire. I only do this for players who are old, have high annual value contracts, and that didn't play in the majors the year before.

I don't know that you would run into that issue if you're starting fresh, but I do it due to the inflated contract issue I mentioned above.

[babman]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Just turn budgets off .

[Jr.]

Re: Confused by Franchise Budgets

Trading becomes difficult with budgets because teams usually spend up to their budget, so there isn't much wiggle room if you're trying to trade a good, MLB player

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