Finances

[henry296]

I'm playing a real career started in 1962 and it is now 1966. All teams are only spending about 1/3 of their available budget. I didn't change any of the default financial settings.

[MPHopcroft1]

Not unexpected. I have yet to see any clubs spending their full budget in any of my games, even of previous editions.

[puresimmer]

ORIGINAL: henry296

I'm playing a real career started in 1962 and it is now 1966. All teams are only spending about 1/3 of their available budget. I didn't change any of the default financial settings.

This is a tricky one to balance. Are you seeing great players sitting in the free agent pool unsigned? I may need to simply tweak down the available budget size. I'll need to do a ton of testing though, since the flip-side is worse (teams running out of money and having to sign scrubs).

Let me know your thoughts.

[henry296]

Shaun,
 
No, I'm not seeing any great free agents sitting in the pool.  The issue is the reverse that unless a player doesn't want to sign a new contract, I never have to worry about keeping my team together.  The only players I let make it to free agency are all well over 30 and I'm able to sign the best available free agents.  For example, I had no problem out bidding everyone for Hank Aarron because I had so much free cash.
 
Can you explain the finanical model a little better.  In order to force teams to make decisions about players, I went ahead and significantly reduced the available finances to be close to what teams were spending.  However, now that it is the trading deadline, I have at least $2MM more in available money than I had at the start of the season.  I have some great players coming up for free agency, but no worries about keeping my team together for next year. 

[henry296]

Shaun,
 
Take a look at my "Trades" thread regarding my latest free agency period.  This was the first one of a new career started in 2003.  Yes, there are great, but older players available for free agency and every team could afford them.

[33sherman]

ORIGINAL: puresimmer

ORIGINAL: henry296

I'm playing a real career started in 1962 and it is now 1966. All teams are only spending about 1/3 of their available budget. I didn't change any of the default financial settings.

This is a tricky one to balance. Are you seeing great players sitting in the free agent pool unsigned? I may need to simply tweak down the available budget size. I'll need to do a ton of testing though, since the flip-side is worse (teams running out of money and having to sign scrubs).

Let me know your thoughts.

Recently started a fictional association with finances on at 1% and I'm having a problem with great players sitting around unsigned (after about twenty years of the association). Their salary demands are unreasonable (given team budgets) for contract extensions, but after the free agent period you can sign them for almost nothing ($80 a year) but none of the teams sign them even though they could afford it. Then when the season starts you can't sign them for less than $30,000 a year and no one can afford it.