[Bristolduke]

I'll be glad to look at the file if you want to post it some where, but I'll address some here.


1) As I understand your concept all three leagues are playable (e.g. as opposed to 1 league with a couple of minors). So yes you will have set financials for all three. Whether they are the same or no is up to you, but my suspicion is that once you understand the first one the others will be easier to do.


I appreciate the comments on the post and afterwards maybe you can help me edit it to be clearer. The financial set is not obvious and has to be done in steps (league set up, after league creation but before the draft, after the draft). After that it can and should run with little to no tweaking.


As for the questions


1A) You don't need a hard salary cap, unless you want one.


1B) Revenue sharing is up to you, but my preference is Luxury Tax because it penalizes teams that try to buy titles, so that they are forced to rebuild sooner. Whether you use it or not, it will not help the poorer clubs significantly, it is more of a deterrent to GMs blowing up the salaries (not fool-proof as we are talking real people vice the AI).


2) I am not a fan of Cash Max. If you set the financials up correctly, cash on hand shouldn't be a constant issue.


3/4) No financial reason to change these, unless you want to (as we get into all the leagues you may want to scale down the scouting and development budgets.






Changes in setup.


I would reduce the average attendance to 25,000. As I tried to explain in the post, OOTP inflates these terribly, so limit them early and then adjust them later. With his setting you will get an average attendance of about 33,000.


We are just talking league 1 here as you will need to adjust the other leagues financials, but get one league running first.


From this setup, create the game. Then go in and adjust the seating for each park to whatever the game set as the minimum. What you have now create is a fairly level revenue system. It will move around a bit, but it is fairly constrained. That is the key.


Next go to the initial draft and set a draft budget. It will default to some value between 110,000,000 and 160,000,000, you want to enter 110,000,000 and set for all teams.


Then run the draft. After the draft is run, go to stats/team stats/financials and make sure all the teams have the same market size, fan loyalty and fan interest. Edit any outliers.


You will have to do these steps when you go live as well, this is not just for the test. If you set a cash Max what you want to see is that most teams don't make more that that in a season (there will always be a couple because of the AI, same is true for going in the red. However, what is the team average. Is that in line with expectations.


If you need more or less revenue, adjust the media values. The game will always inflate whatever value you enter in the local media, but not the value you enter in the national media. So you can add and subtract there (at least initially) to find your balance.


Once league 1 is done, you can either replicate for the other leagues or scale them down a bit.


I saw your PM. Feel free to PM with questions.


Hope this helps.