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Originally Posted by Vezna31
I recently started a new league, simmed it 10 years with financials on and then took over the worst team. The Detroit Tigers were 64-98 with a fan interest of 17 and -$5m in cash. The San Diego Padres also had the same record, but they had a fan interest of 19, so off to Detroit I went. I was a little bummed since I live in San Diego 
The first thing I did was come up with a plan on how to turn it around. Negative cash is a killer...no signing of coaches, free agents, or promotion days. So my first task was to analyze my salaries and revenue. With a fan interest interest of 17, not much attendance or revenue is going to be generated, so I immediately started trading off my top salary guys whom I didn't think were worth the money in exchange for 3-star or better prospects and as much money as I could get. One of the things that killed me was the trading of my total stud LF'er who had hit over .330 with over 30 HR's and had tremendous ratings. But he was making $10M a year which represented 20% of my revenue.
By the time I actually started the season, my highest salary was $798,000 and my total payroll was $15M and had accumulated $5M in cash by the trade deadline to start doing promotion days. I had a bunch of prospects that were going to get plenty of playing time. The season turned out like I expected. I went 52-110, but I made a $35M profit and had the first pick in the draft. My lineup was pretty decent. Most of my hitters had over 50 contact and I think my lowest starting batting average was .268. Where I got killed was pitching and killed even more in the bullpen. I was hoping to get a good SP as the first pick but there were only 2 top SP prospects and I didn't think they were that good, so I went with offense and banked on making a trade or 2 and Spring Training for my pitching prospects to really increase their ratings. Since I know MR's are usually the last to go, I went a little early and secured two 5-star relievers with already decent ratings.
I started out the 2nd season pretty well going 4-1 and quickly started getting shelled dropping to .500. But I am confident that my team can play .500 ball for the whole season. This game rocks!  |
are you playing out each game with this league or are you simming it slowly now that you've taken over the Tigers? if so how many games do you generally sim at a time before checking things over? Although I mainly play in online leagues, I've been trying to get a rhythm going with simming out a solo league, but I just can't decide how quickly or slowly I want to get through it.