[Pelican]

I understand what you are trying to accomplish with your financial structure. It certainly will mirror the real world imbalance of MLB and professional soccer (meaning Euro football). Will you have an amateur draft, compensation for signing free agents, a soft or hard salary cap, or luxury tax? Without some guardrails, it is going to be virtually impossible for the poor teams to complete with teams spending many times as much each year. “Moneyball” can only take you so far.

My own preference - we each play our own way - is to even out the starting financials as much as possible, to prevent wealthy teams from simply dominating. Then some teams invest in free agents, others in their farm system, I like to lock in young stars to long-term contracts before I have to (before arbitration). Within the constraints of a financial system, there are still many different ways to spend the money. Just a thought.