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Originally Posted by Pelican
Good on you for finding a workable solution. I have done something similar, at least manually increasing cash on hand, particularly for the "poor" or cheap teams, in an effort to approach parity. Of course, more money means more spending and higher salaries. Simply nudging up the average salary each year would be simpler.
My experience, as least in contemporary sims, is that salaries slide steadily upwards, basically due to the limited supply of quality players and the constant demands and deep pockets of MLB teams. I have not seen salaries decrease or hold steady, year-to-year. I would think you would need something external - like owner-friendly changes to arbitration or luxury tax - to restrain that growth. Or a global depression.
It's also true, as you found, that you can fiddle with the revenue side, such as by increasing TV revenue nationally ("rising tide floats all boats") or locally (favoring the big markets). The game seems to put great emphasis on the average ticket price. You can only increase before the regular season. Too much of an increase can cause attendance to dip. But a modest increase can produce added revenue for players.
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Something funny did happen around 2031/2032. The average payroll did start going down. A small amount but for about 2-3 seasons the average payroll went down. I didn’t sim much further after that but it seemed like imo maybe it was hitting an even ground for salaries and settling. I think maybe as bigger real life salaries like ohtani, soto etc came off the books the games avg payroll came down with it and balanced out payroll. Even the dodgers budget in like 2032 went down like 15 or 20 mill one year, then 5-10 mill the next. Went from having the largest budget out of all the MLB to about 2nd or 3rd. Don’t know why it went down like I said but the Mets, dodger, Yankees and Phillies were still the biggest budgets in the game along with teams like the braves, Red Sox right behind them