MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

[dwayne12345]

So in my modern day MyNBA mode with 3 expansion teams I'm noticing a small issue regarding revenue. It's 2025 currently and the only teams that had positive margins in the entire league was the Knicks, Nets, and Heat. Even the Lakers had a -4% margin ($999k in luxury tax costs).


Is this normal? Should the entire league be in the negative. The Utah Jazz were under the salary cap and lost $41 million with their terrible team.


Is there something I should look into to get the league profittable? This is next gen Xbox Series X. The expansion cities are Seattle, St. Louis, and Las Vegas.

[Scvllp]

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I’m in the 99-00 season and every team is 2.1 billion dollars in the negative. But that’s because I have the salary cap off.

[disturbingcreation]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

Select all teams, turn pricing on (if it isn't already), and crank those ticket prices. They are WAY undervalued by default. You can raise them 150-175 dollars higher with them still listed as "good value"....and that will fix most teams being in the negative.

[dwayne12345]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

Select all teams, turn pricing on (if it isn't already), and crank those ticket prices. They are WAY undervalued by default. You can raise them 150-175 dollars higher with them still listed as "good value"....and that will fix most teams being in the negative.

Question on this. If I do this. Will the ticket prices stay high after I unselect the teams? I don't want to do full user control.

[disturbingcreation]

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Question on this. If I do this. Will the ticket prices stay high after I unselect the teams? I don't want to do full user control.

Yes, they should, in my experience. At absolute worst, you might have to change it once every season at the start of the year, but I'm pretty sure it holds.

[Scvllp]

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Just looked at the ticket prices for all teams…80k a ticket. No wonder there is hardly anyone at the games. Won’t let me adjust it up or down either.

[aimlessgun]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

How much does profitability matter for the AI anyways?

[dwayne12345]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

How much does profitability matter for the AI anyways?

It's just an immersion thing for me. Like when a small market team that misses the playoffs has a $100million dollar luxury tax bill, it throws me off.

[DustinR49]

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I wondered lately why there are no fans in the stands for most games. Im also in 99-00 and noticing the same thing. It explains too why all the teams arent able to pay their staffs anything either.

[dwayne12345]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

Select all teams, turn pricing on (if it isn't already), and crank those ticket prices. They are WAY undervalued by default. You can raise them 150-175 dollars higher with them still listed as "good value"....and that will fix most teams being in the negative.

OK so I tried this.
The Good: It solved the issue, as projected profits go up immediately after bumping up ticket prices around the league. It also helped teams get more funds from profit sharing since there are more profitable teams now.

The bad: It's temporary if you don't do full league control. After putting the other teams back on CPU control they lowered their prices each day until they were unprofitable again. Now there are a dozen teams back in the negative for projected profits.

[taildog]

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If you have videos of this let’s report it to 2K support. Seems like a logic issue.

[DustinR49]

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OK so I tried this.
The Good: It solved the issue, as projected profits go up immediately after bumping up ticket prices around the league. It also helped teams get more funds from profit sharing since there are more profitable teams now.

The bad: It's temporary if you don't do full league control. After putting the other teams back on CPU control they lowered their prices each day until they were unprofitable again. Now there are a dozen teams back in the negative for projected profits.

What do you have the ticket prices set to as well as everything else if you're willing to share? I am running into the opposite. In the year 2000 everyone except 4 teams are profitable but the stadiums are empty. I am paused in a last week of the season game and the stadium does not have a single fan in it. The minimum price the game will let me set tickets to is $908! I dont want to have to start over for this but not having fans in the stands is really a bummer. Any advice?

[dwayne12345]

Re: MyNBA: Nearly Entire League Losing Money 3 seasons in

What do you have the ticket prices set to as well as everything else if you're willing to share? I am running into the opposite. In the year 2000 everyone except 4 teams are profitable but the stadiums are empty. I am paused in a last week of the season game and the stadium does not have a single fan in it. The minimum price the game will let me set tickets to is $908! I dont want to have to start over for this but not having fans in the stands is really a bummer. Any advice?

This sounds like an era specific issue on your end. I'm playing modern era with 3 expansion teams added. (Seattle, Vegas, St. Louis). I set every team's price to the max value that it would allow before becoming red "prices are too high." It's different for each city. Small markets like Utah hit around $150, but Los Angeles, NYC, Dallas, Chicago were at around $325.
The CPU is resetting prices to be in the green at around 50-65 dollars for those teams.

[DustinR49]

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This sounds like an era specific issue on your end. I'm playing modern era with 3 expansion teams added. (Seattle, Vegas, St. Louis). I set every team's price to the max value that it would allow before becoming red "prices are too high." It's different for each city. Small markets like Utah hit around $150, but Los Angeles, NYC, Dallas, Chicago were at around $325.
The CPU is resetting prices to be in the green at around 50-65 dollars for those teams.

It might be era specific. Even weirder, I paused the game and then unpaused and now the stadium is half full in the same game! This game is so buggy. Thanks for the tips, if I do a modern era save I will try that.

[xelalex24]

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Did you change the number of games per season?

MyNBA everyone is going broke in the first season and I realized that it is because I have the season at 30 game or something...and no team is making enough profit at the gate.