[NoOne]

note about diminishign returns:

you can set these budgets after you sign all the players you need for the upcoming year... if there's one heavy contract bid you intend to make an dthe demand isn't dropping you can guesstimate close enough to leave room...


just set these after that point... if you can't max it, set it lower.

always spend all the money you can (not necessarily on payroll, that has to be smartly spent money with an eye to future concerns, of course)... stuff that's set yearly should be maxed as much as possible after you have other concerns mapped out.

leave whatever wiggle room you want to build in.

diminishing returns doesn't matter if it's money unspent at the end of the year... rather get somethign than nothing.

adjust scouting to how ootp works... it's not equal amounts of inaccuracy all over...

ie major league scouting requires less for good accuracy than the others. overspending doesn't help much here. spend only enough to be accurate with MLB players to give coach good info for decisions and trade info etc. ~4-6M will be good. i like to keep it at ~6 and zero out international spending.

international scouting: if you don't have these leagues activated, it doesn't apply to fictioanally created international FA and IAFA on july 2nd.. it may apply to scouting discoveries, but that's a very small piece of the pie and you'll still get a rare good one.. maybe less often but it was so rare anyway it doesn't matter. you can easily argue that you'll get more ROI if you dump that into MiL and Amateur spending.

if you mostly trade for MiL prospects, spend more there than the draft.

equal alottment satisfies some OCD needs, but it won't be optimal. allow context to dictate. high accuracy when drafting 30th still nets you a middling prospect etc... trading for a high-end prospect more often nets you a better propsect. after 2-3 years in mil, they are very accurate ratings with a high budget and a legendary scout.

IAFA - buy up as many as you can afford.. as many as will take your 5M cap ... quantity over quality because the ratings are incredible inaccurate no matter how much you spend. every other year, splurge and time it with payroll dumps, if you can... those years you lighten payroll should coincide with the non-penalized years for IAFA spending.

note that there's a 100% penalty for every dollar spent when you go nuts like this, and budget appropriately.. if 50M budget set in offseason, you can spend ~25M. if closer to 5M, don't penalize yourself next year etc etc... wiat for a year you can really splurge.