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Originally Posted by matttb324
Awesome thanks. Probably a dumb question but where would I adjust that league-wide?
Also, another question...about team finances. I noticed that every team in the league is in the green and even teams like Washington and Pittsburgh that have struggled seem to be doing OK in finances. I may not just be looking at it closely enough but curious, is the game subtle enough that finances can get dicey for a club if they don't win?
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Settings>Stats & AI
Look, finances are tough to replicate with regard to the historical and tricky to tailor with regard to the workable.
The default settings are, for want of a better word,
macroeconomic in nature. They consider only the ecosystem as a whole when comparing it to its historical equivalent, not its constituent parts. The rest of it is sort of left to how the save plays out and is very much driven by things such as market size, fan interest and ticket prices all working in conjunction. Things get even more convoluted when - as I think you have done here - you take historical franchises and "rebrand" them. IE Using the Chicago Cubs for one of your league's fictional teams still makes that fictional club the Chicago Cubs behind the scenes in areas such as financial properties - market size and the like.
The reason all clubs are in the green during this early section is because you are using historical salary settings, which greatly favour the clubs over the players - even if you are using FA rather than the Reserve Roster.
To get it working more realistically requires tinkering every season and you need to be really careful when you do so, lest you totally upset the balance to the other side. Even I don't bother with this apart from some small changes - it is why many of us are forced to use "House Rules" such as the ones I have applied for the Bucs save. Doesn't help you here, though, as you aren't running a team. In the end, my advice is to simply leave it be. The Draft should provide you with some element of parity.