Finances ...

[Jabez54]

[&o] Thank you, Shaun!!! ...Imagine, I just came back from a little trip and got to see this over the weekend - Wowee - so I quickly (like a little kid with new baseball cards) downloaded the 1.73 and the game went very smoothly for me on my PC - so I created my starting point "1900" -

1.) I noticed immediately with finance on as is - what do good ball players make in that time period (177,000$!!) what setup a decent curve from 1900 onward as far as tweaking goes - I thought the Babe was the first one to make more than the president ....

2.) Whenever the draft ended, I noticed there are still some old ball players that don't have any pics - is there a way beside manually, instead for just fictional players add generic pics for those that doesn't have original pics? ...

3.) will search if any more crops up as I test the "game" add-ons ... many thanks Shaun!!! ...

[KG Erwin]

Jabez, on point 2, I suspect that these are in 2008 dollars, not early-1900s dollars. FYI, I set up a historical 2005 season, and the top salaries were $23 million/year. The major-league minimum is set at $100,000, with fictional scrubs making less. So, an early 20th century salary of $177,000 2008 dollars doesn't seem unreasonable.

Now, I've noticed that the Lahman database does include salaries for SOME, not all, modern-era players. PS doesn't import these values, as they are incomplete.

That being said, I believe the 1.73 financial model is much more realistic than previous versions.

[puresimmer]

I spent all day with era-specific model tweaks and things look really good.

The only downside (to retain stability) is in the real early years (1900's you'll see scrubs with super low salaries). I had to do it this way (scaling everything by a multiplier) so I would not have to go back to square one with re-balancing.

I'll post a screen shot of my 1927 salaries in a second...

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1910

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1927

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1951

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1961

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1974

[KG Erwin]

These look good, and provide a good basis for an alternative history. I always wanted to incorporate finances into the '30s - '50s, and now it looks feasible. [;)]

[KG Erwin]

One more thing: small-market teams need to have their overall financial base reduced. This is the one thing that prevents modern-era sims from being based on real-life business conditions, such as that faced by Pittsburgh.

For the old days, it only reminds us of why players-for-cash deals were common, as many teams were financially strapped.

[Jabez54]

Shaun, Many thanks for giving us with improvements of this tremendous game and the willingness, along with your personal time to achieve this ... I can't wait to see the "final" 1.74 ... Do you think KG's request is too much? - It would create more authentication of the era of past-time ... Again many thanks!!!

PS... The game has been doing well on my pc

Tomas