Re: Proportional contracts
Mate, you went to a lot of trouble. You didn't need to edit all the contract, just use a calculator to add them all up and divide by two! I understand what you're trying to do in the quest for 'real contracts'. It's futile. Here's why:
1. Even if they're proportional, they're not real contracts.
2. The luxury tax threshold doesn't add to the realism and doesn't reflect real life. Like you said, the Yankees payroll in the show is $122mm. Luxury tax threshold is $156mm. In real life they're at $225mm and $189MM respectively.
3. The new morale system is based on default contracts.
4. It get's ridiculous for certain teams and players. Go look at doing what you're proposing for the Giants. Trying taking 50% off Posey who is earning $25.9mm already. MadBum $21.8mm. That will ruin they're payroll making it too low.
5. It's insane (more of a personal one). I as much as anyone would love to play with real contracts. OSFM is great because it adds to the realism. So would real contracts. But players are not valued the same in game, are not on contracts that are dictated by overall or age. You are trying to get sanity from madness and it wont work. In the end you will have gone to a lot of effort for virtually no reward. In the end, the contracts might be proportional, but likely to still effect trade logic and free agency, will have unbalanced teams and most importantly, they are not the real contracts.
Okay, this above post states the Show NYY payroll at $122 mill. I should have clarified that as the 90 man payroll as opposed to the the IRL Yankees 25 man, $226 million payroll.
When I edited all 90 NYY players, at 50% for anyone on the 40 man, & $30,000 to $90,000 for the other 50 minor leaguers, that came out to $119.6 mill. That's $2.4 million under the original $122 million the default NYY payroll was. Which in effect, gives you $2.4 million to actually fine tune the 50 men in the minor leagues. More than enough wiggle room to get them right. The only thing is you cannot actually give those 50 men %50 of their IRL salary because you can't give anyone under $30,000 a year. But that is so minor, it isn't even noteworthy. I only mention it for sake of transparency.
The one thing I noticed in the NYY payroll, is the game most definitely needs each players salary adjusted, one only need look at McCann's contract vs A-Rod's to verify that.
But we knew that before hand already
When I edited all 90 NYY players, at 50% for anyone on the 40 man, & $30,000 to $90,000 for the other 50 minor leaguers, that came out to $119.6 mill. That's $2.4 million under the original $122 million the default NYY payroll was. Which in effect, gives you $2.4 million to actually fine tune the 50 men in the minor leagues. More than enough wiggle room to get them right. The only thing is you cannot actually give those 50 men %50 of their IRL salary because you can't give anyone under $30,000 a year. But that is so minor, it isn't even noteworthy. I only mention it for sake of transparency.
The one thing I noticed in the NYY payroll, is the game most definitely needs each players salary adjusted, one only need look at McCann's contract vs A-Rod's to verify that.
But we knew that before hand already
1. Even if they're proportional, they're not real contracts.
2. The luxury tax threshold doesn't add to the realism and doesn't reflect real life. Like you said, the Yankees payroll in the show is $122mm. Luxury tax threshold is $156mm. In real life they're at $225mm and $189MM respectively.
3. The new morale system is based on default contracts.
4. It get's ridiculous for certain teams and players. Go look at doing what you're proposing for the Giants. Trying taking 50% off Posey who is earning $25.9mm already. MadBum $21.8mm. That will ruin they're payroll making it too low.
5. It's insane (more of a personal one). I as much as anyone would love to play with real contracts. OSFM is great because it adds to the realism. So would real contracts. But players are not valued the same in game, are not on contracts that are dictated by overall or age. You are trying to get sanity from madness and it wont work. In the end you will have gone to a lot of effort for virtually no reward. In the end, the contracts might be proportional, but likely to still effect trade logic and free agency, will have unbalanced teams and most importantly, they are not the real contracts.
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