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Originally Posted by JeffR
The budget should actually be going up slightly after that move (and I just tested it a couple of times and it did), so it's more likely that the payroll, the other half of the available money equation, increased by a large amount in the new season. If you extended the contracts of a bunch of players, that's what did it. The "Available money" lines on the finances screen always refer to the current season; it's the Salary Obligations screen that you need to check to see how much money is committed next year. We should probably add another line or two on the financial summary to estimate what next year's payroll and available money will be, so the changeover on July 1 doesn't come as a surprise.
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Hmmm, this is odd. I had signed some FAgents in '81-82. That's what used most of my available money that year. I think I started with around $14 mil and kept about $3.9 mil unused. I wasn't sure if money carried over but in a previous game I had taken on too much in the way of salary and couldn't sign players so I was trying a different approach.
You're right that at the end of the season my available money when up from about $4mil to around $9mil. Then it disappeared! Currently it says I have just under $49mil in player salaries on the salary obligation page. On the finances page it says I have a $66 million budget with a $61.5 player payroll. Why the discrepancy? I think this is important because its says that I have negative $5mil to sign FAs when this seems like I should have positive $4.5 mil, right? It also says I have approx $9mil in contract offers out but I don't have any that I can tell.
Question: when you sign a player to a new contract is all the money for the entirety of the contract paid up front? I think the program might be doing this in some cases.
If you'd like I can send my save game file. Perhaps I just don't understand the mechanism. It wouldn't be as big a deal but the Rockies/Devils have a sad little budget....
EDIT: I had extended Rob Ramage by 3 years, but that was after I noticed my financial predicament. I was trying to see if extending his contract my alter the current budget like manipulating a salary cap. It didn't, which makes sense since I'm not working with a league cap but a self imposed spending limit.
I just cannot figure out where this "offered contract" money is coming from. I had a couple contracts with a $0 offer and I cancelled those just to be sure. Now I'm totally befuddled.