Post by Derek _ Red Sox on Feb 28, 2011 23:08:33 GMT -5
Let me begin by saying that this was not an easy process whatsoever. In fact, there was not one part of this that I can say we took lightly and it took a lot of work by a number of active league members who were willing to throw their ideas out there without bias towards their own teams or any other team, no matter the rivalry!
In the end, I created a formula based on a lot of their advice and made all the adjustments that I felt were needed. Without their help, this process would not of gotten done, especially with this much precision.
I know the biggest concern from the league was the amount of consideration the 2010 MLB budget would be taken into affect. I can now tell you that it was not taken into consideration, it was only used as a measurement to see where teams roughly were and where we should be now that we are three years ahead.
The 2010 Major League payroll was roughly $2.7 billion dollars while our 2013 Paramount Baseball budget was almost $4.1 billion. This was a difference of $1.4 billion dollars over three years. This was an unrealistic growth of over $400 million dollars a season!!!
The new budget set in place brings the league down to $3.15 billion dollar budget. This means we cut out over $1 billion dollars out of the league budget but we stilled showed a league growth of $400 million from the MLB 2010 budgets to where we are now in 2013.
To determine the budget cuts, each team was broken down into market size and an overall percentage was reduce immediately, before any other factors were considered:
Market sizes were broken down between Astronomical (2%), Huge (3%), Very Big (5%), Big (7%), Rather Big (10%), Above Average (15%), Average (20%), Below Average (22%), Small (25%), and Tiny (30%).
Then things were broken down by Fiscal personality, Owners opinion on your performance, Loyalty and interest. All critical factors to see where increases in the PBL should be made since these are in-game facts, not based on opinion. For each modifer, we used a +/- scale and then that cumulative percentage was either added or substracted out of a teams buget.
One of the biggest concerns were keeping small market teams in the mix. Teams like Pirates, A's and Nationals for example were some we had to keep in mind but in reality they still are $26-28 million over their real life payroll which should allow them plenty of flexibility.
After the budgets were made, there were 7 teams that were over budget (highlighted in yellow). I am working on fixing this.
Some options are converting some of the big salaries into signing bonus money in order to allow lower base salaries (might allow teams to do this with either 2 or 3 players MAX and make a rule that whatever player still needs to be highest paid player on your team. For example, Jason Kubel making $27M could be paid off $10M a year to bring his salary down to $17M annually.
Another option is allow teams to buy out a MAX of 1 or 2 players before budgets are firmly made in game. This would allow teams who operated under very inflated budgets and spent money they otherwise would not of spent to get out of those contracts, thus increasing some talent in the free agent pool.
Another consideration is for a team to accept it being over budget and trading whatever players they choose.
I know some teams might be a little disappointed in the assigned budgets but no team received an increase and every team seen a decrease (even my Red Sox where every aspect of our work showed we were due for a budget increase).
In the end, this was NOT an easy process and not something I was thrilled about doing but in order to keep the best interest of the league in tact, it had to be done. I know some teams based things on the 3-year window that PBL has been around but the goal is to have this league run for many many seasons, a lot more than just three. 3-years will be a small sample of where this league is going.
Like I said in the beginning, if you have legit concern over your budget, you have the right to question this and please have concrete reasons why it should be altered, not just well team-X has this payroll, I should at least have this...
We did this without ANY bias and the spreadsheets I used (ended using 3 different versions) all were so large that I did not see any team names when creating budgets only a bunch of numbers.
Without further adieu, here are the new 2013 PBL Budgets.
In the end, I created a formula based on a lot of their advice and made all the adjustments that I felt were needed. Without their help, this process would not of gotten done, especially with this much precision.
I know the biggest concern from the league was the amount of consideration the 2010 MLB budget would be taken into affect. I can now tell you that it was not taken into consideration, it was only used as a measurement to see where teams roughly were and where we should be now that we are three years ahead.
The 2010 Major League payroll was roughly $2.7 billion dollars while our 2013 Paramount Baseball budget was almost $4.1 billion. This was a difference of $1.4 billion dollars over three years. This was an unrealistic growth of over $400 million dollars a season!!!
The new budget set in place brings the league down to $3.15 billion dollar budget. This means we cut out over $1 billion dollars out of the league budget but we stilled showed a league growth of $400 million from the MLB 2010 budgets to where we are now in 2013.
To determine the budget cuts, each team was broken down into market size and an overall percentage was reduce immediately, before any other factors were considered:
Market sizes were broken down between Astronomical (2%), Huge (3%), Very Big (5%), Big (7%), Rather Big (10%), Above Average (15%), Average (20%), Below Average (22%), Small (25%), and Tiny (30%).
Then things were broken down by Fiscal personality, Owners opinion on your performance, Loyalty and interest. All critical factors to see where increases in the PBL should be made since these are in-game facts, not based on opinion. For each modifer, we used a +/- scale and then that cumulative percentage was either added or substracted out of a teams buget.
One of the biggest concerns were keeping small market teams in the mix. Teams like Pirates, A's and Nationals for example were some we had to keep in mind but in reality they still are $26-28 million over their real life payroll which should allow them plenty of flexibility.
After the budgets were made, there were 7 teams that were over budget (highlighted in yellow). I am working on fixing this.
Some options are converting some of the big salaries into signing bonus money in order to allow lower base salaries (might allow teams to do this with either 2 or 3 players MAX and make a rule that whatever player still needs to be highest paid player on your team. For example, Jason Kubel making $27M could be paid off $10M a year to bring his salary down to $17M annually.
Another option is allow teams to buy out a MAX of 1 or 2 players before budgets are firmly made in game. This would allow teams who operated under very inflated budgets and spent money they otherwise would not of spent to get out of those contracts, thus increasing some talent in the free agent pool.
Another consideration is for a team to accept it being over budget and trading whatever players they choose.
I know some teams might be a little disappointed in the assigned budgets but no team received an increase and every team seen a decrease (even my Red Sox where every aspect of our work showed we were due for a budget increase).
In the end, this was NOT an easy process and not something I was thrilled about doing but in order to keep the best interest of the league in tact, it had to be done. I know some teams based things on the 3-year window that PBL has been around but the goal is to have this league run for many many seasons, a lot more than just three. 3-years will be a small sample of where this league is going.
Like I said in the beginning, if you have legit concern over your budget, you have the right to question this and please have concrete reasons why it should be altered, not just well team-X has this payroll, I should at least have this...
We did this without ANY bias and the spreadsheets I used (ended using 3 different versions) all were so large that I did not see any team names when creating budgets only a bunch of numbers.
Without further adieu, here are the new 2013 PBL Budgets.