Franchise budget?

[zippy2212]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShowSavage

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...work-year.html I have to be honest, there are so many absurd comments in the thread linked above. It's one thing when people are genuinely trying to figure how things work, and then it's another thing entirely when people don't love a new feature so they act like it doesn't work and must be replaced with the old feature. So lets review some facts....athletes get weekly or bi-weekly paychecks. You do not receive a check for $5 million on the same business day that you sign a 1 year/$5 million contract. By the same token, a team that acquires a player who is on a 1 year/$5 million contract does not pay him his salary for April, May, June, or July if they acquire him in August. The new budgeting helps simulate more realistic conditions surrounding personel decisions throughout the league. If your team sucks and you have big contracts, you're supposed to dump them for future considerations, temporary salary relief, and get your cash flows up to ensure that business isn't a total loss for the season. If your team is unexpectedly good and is operating soundly, you're supposed to invest in good talent that is on bad teams to help you get into the playoffs and beyond (which equals additional revenue as well). The weekly budget system creates more urgency for these moves to happen. And for everyone whining about how the money and your bank goes away? Bruh..you get a cut of that in additional revenue the following year which depends on how many wins you have. So if you win the World Series and you had no money in the bank...don't expect your budget to go up next year. Baseball is about business, and you can run the coolest business in the world, but if you don't make any money, you won't be around long.

In a way I like the new system but it really needs to be better implemented and understandable. What I mean is, I know how much I have in my bank and how much I can afford to spend, then why can't I spend it?

This is a real example from my franchise:
Year 2020, 7th year of a carryover, I'm in 1st place on July 20th, have $18M in the bank, can make a max offer of over a million and make 687k per week. Why can I sign a free agent for $11M per year but I can't make any trade that would add more than $8M to my payroll?

I think if SCEA would just explain or offer a tutorial in how the budgets work this year people would love the new system. I know I would. This is the only game I own for my PS4 and play year round.

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[disk]

The only problems I see with the new budget system is no AI team ever seems to have any budget space during the season making trades extremely difficult. This issue has been around for a while I think and in my opinion is the number one reason you see crazy Kerhsaw for Trout like trades, all trades by the AI need to be 1 for 1 dollars wise.

And it's all well can good showing budget as weekly cash flow, but don't show me my remaining budget in ONLY weekly when you show player contracts in both WEEKLY and YEARLY. Totally seems like something that fell through the cracks and has never been fixed. No reason I need to be multiplying my weekly budget by 26.2 or whatever so I know how much my annual budget is during free agency, show me everything in either $/week or $/year.

This isn't FIFA, contracts in ALL SPORTS in the US are reported as YEARLY averages and TOTAL value. Justin Turner signed a four-year $64 million contract, not a four-year ~$308,000 a week contract.

Maybe if The Show has some kind of owner mode where things like cash flow and revenue really mattered weekly cash would be fine but come on...

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by zippy2212

In a way I like the new system but it really needs to be better implemented and understandable. What I mean is, I know how much I have in my bank and how much I can afford to spend, then why can't I spend it? This is a real example from my franchise: Year 2020, 7th year of a carryover, I'm in 1st place on July 20th, have $18M in the bank, can make a max offer of over a million and make 687k per week. Why can I sign a free agent for $11M per year but I can't make any trade that would add more than $8M to my payroll? I think if SCEA would just explain or offer a tutorial in how the budgets work this year people would love the new system. I know I would. This is the only game I own for my PS4 and play year round. Sent from my SM-G950U using Operation Sports mobile app

Agreed.

The new budget system is actually more "realistic" just extremely cumbersome to manage and unfortunately, poorly explained in how it actually works.