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Post by David_ExposGM on Mar 19, 2017 20:48:37 GMT -5
Ouch... Cardinals feel your pain!!! Your owner even pocketed the $15M in profits from last season and only gave you $137K in cash to start next season.. Are you referring to the "revenue sharing" in the graphics above? |
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Post by David_ExposGM on Mar 19, 2017 20:52:04 GMT -5
Do I adjust my budget or leave it? I'm not sure the correct answer here. I don't get the timing and major drop Just curious. Are you able to adjust your ticket price right now? Personally, I would leave the budget when the owner has dropped it as the game is doing it's thing and others have experienced drops (not to that extent, but then again, you're among the richest teams in the league so everything is magnified). |
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Post by MetDaMeats on Mar 19, 2017 20:52:42 GMT -5
I think I know why he did it. It was the lack of contracts in 2043. He's basing his budget ideas on the fact that there isn't a lot of money on the books AFTER this year.
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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Mar 19, 2017 20:56:15 GMT -5
Mine dropped again by $4 million. I know it's not as bad as yours but...still...
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Post by NickP_DBacksGM on Mar 19, 2017 21:10:23 GMT -5
Do I adjust my budget or leave it? I'm not sure the correct answer here. I don't get the timing and major drop It goes back to what it was. I don't give a damn what anybody says this is beyond crazy. |
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Post by MetDaMeats on Mar 19, 2017 21:19:06 GMT -5
I was going to suggest we use our guideline from a couple years back to stop an owner from dropping a budget below 15% of the original. But that's still 27 million bucks.
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Post by Derek _ Red Sox on Mar 20, 2017 7:46:45 GMT -5
I gotta be honest, I'm actually getting tired of the financial side of (and the game) OOTP and trying to find the balance of what is right and just deal with what the game throws at you.
I don't understand how some don't see the OOTP financial engine as flawed. It is always, let the game do its things.
The Rockies are most likely right but damn, I got lack of contracts but I also have 5 of my top 7 highest paid players coming off the books, we are winning, the objective is to win now and the owner is demanding of a winning team now most if not all those guys (Jimmy Smith, Markus Price, Andrew Everett, Curt Peterson and John MacGamwell) are not able to come back leaving me with a huge budget slash to fill my top 3 spots in my rotation PLUS 2/3 of my outfield before I look at any other need.
They want to win now, they need to let the action take its course.
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Post by COL_PBL on Mar 20, 2017 8:00:32 GMT -5
My owner(s) have adjusted my budgets this time every year (just before spring training). I just got a message that he was leaving my budget where it was at this year.
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Post by COL_PBL on Mar 20, 2017 8:07:02 GMT -5
Also looking at revenue (190 -14 in RS = 176M) vs costs (182M) last year, the math shows you lost money last year (although you ended in the green in cash on hand since I assume you started with 10M in cash.
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Post by Derek _ Red Sox on Mar 20, 2017 8:49:55 GMT -5
Last year, the cash on hand from owner was $1.7m and I ended the year with a profit of $11.1m and a total balance of +15.2m
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Post by Derek _ Red Sox on Mar 20, 2017 8:53:30 GMT -5
Again even in the terms of realism, 5 years, 5 playoff appearances, 1 World Series and the owner wants to keep winning and  Doesn't make too much sense to me. |
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Post by Commish_Ron on Mar 20, 2017 9:48:10 GMT -5
As far as the timing of it Tampa GM is right. I believe starting in OOTP 16, maybe it was 17, budget adjustments happen at this time every season.
We do have precedent for capping budget decreases by 15%. Like it was mentioned that is still a big hit but not quite as severe as the one you are looking at now.
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Post by MetDaMeats on Mar 20, 2017 10:01:01 GMT -5
I would be amenable to taking a league vote on capping pre-season (Feb, as opposed to Nov) budget drops to something reasonable, like 5%.
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Post by NickP_DBacksGM on Mar 20, 2017 10:12:53 GMT -5
I would be amenable to taking a league vote on capping pre-season (Feb, as opposed to Nov) budget drops to something reasonable, like 5%. This is beyond reasonable! |
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Post by Sean_RedsGM on Mar 20, 2017 10:29:53 GMT -5
I gotta be honest, I'm actually getting tired of the financial side of (and the game) OOTP and trying to find the balance of what is right and just deal with what the game throws at you. I don't understand how some don't see the OOTP financial engine as flawed. It is always, let the game do its things. The Rockies are most likely right but damn, I got lack of contracts but I also have 5 of my top 7 highest paid players coming off the books, we are winning, the objective is to win now and the owner is demanding of a winning team now most if not all those guys (Jimmy Smith, Markus Price, Andrew Everett, Curt Peterson and John MacGamwell) are not able to come back leaving me with a huge budget slash to fill my top 3 spots in my rotation PLUS 2/3 of my outfield before I look at any other need. They want to win now, they need to let the action take its course. I haven't experienced this drastic of a drop at this particular time but I also have a lot of contracts coming off the books after this season. Despite that, my budget is getting reduced even further but my owner expects to win now. It wasn't that long ago that my budget was at $162 mil. I've had great fan support and have been top 5 and top 10 in attendance too. What I've noticed with 17 is that the budget is actually higher than what your projected revenue is or at least in my case. So I based my future budget/expenses off of that number, which has gone down each of the past 2 years when I should've ignored that number and just focused on revenue rather than what the game says I can spend. |
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