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Scruff · 07-12-2009, 04:01 PM

I'm trying to build a historically accurate financials.txt file. The one that comes with the game is basically just a 'straight-line' file that goes back to 1871, gradually increasing everything. That's not how it actually worked.

I'm trying to build a file that has historically accurate minimum salaries, average salaries, attendance, ticket prices, media contracts (the first was a telegraph contract that paid each team $300 a year starting in 1897) etc..

I've found a fair amount of data through google, but has anyone started something like this already? I'd hate to be reinventing the wheel and if someone else is doing this it would be good to combine forces as they say.

Also, is there any 'collateral damage' from doing something like this? Will other things be impacted that I need to worry about? I've read the help file, is it possible to change financial settings as a world develops, so that I could say play without free agency until the late 70s, without arbitration until it actually kicked in, etc.?

Also, if I know the average league payroll, and say what the highest paid player made and the minimum salary, is there a formula I can use to project the Superstar, Star, Good, Above Avg., Avg, Below Avg, Fair and poor numbers the financials.txt file uses?

Thanks for any help. I have searched the forums as best I could and didn't find anything . . . I'm pretty new to OOTP, I had an old version, I think 7 or 8 and I'm trying to get back into it now.

07-12-2009, 04:01 PM	#1
Scruff Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 243	Historically Accurate Financials I'm trying to build a historically accurate financials.txt file. The one that comes with the game is basically just a 'straight-line' file that goes back to 1871, gradually increasing everything. That's not how it actually worked. I'm trying to build a file that has historically accurate minimum salaries, average salaries, attendance, ticket prices, media contracts (the first was a telegraph contract that paid each team $300 a year starting in 1897) etc.. I've found a fair amount of data through google, but has anyone started something like this already? I'd hate to be reinventing the wheel and if someone else is doing this it would be good to combine forces as they say. Also, is there any 'collateral damage' from doing something like this? Will other things be impacted that I need to worry about? I've read the help file, is it possible to change financial settings as a world develops, so that I could say play without free agency until the late 70s, without arbitration until it actually kicked in, etc.? Also, if I know the average league payroll, and say what the highest paid player made and the minimum salary, is there a formula I can use to project the Superstar, Star, Good, Above Avg., Avg, Below Avg, Fair and poor numbers the financials.txt file uses? Thanks for any help. I have searched the forums as best I could and didn't find anything . . . I'm pretty new to OOTP, I had an old version, I think 7 or 8 and I'm trying to get back into it now.