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Originally Posted by scefalu
Has anyone tried choking the financials of the lesser leagues, but leaving the slary structure in place. As a hypothetical example, the Italian League would have an average attendance of 5,000 per game and a TV contract worth 2 million ($10 per ticket * 5000 tickets * 70 home games = $3.5 million + $2 million TV money ~ $5.5 million dollar budget). So, set the minimum contract at $50,000 to keep a plentiful amount of lower-end player money available. At the same time, set the salary structure so that superstars still want $16 million. How would this work out? Clearly, the really good players would continually want more money, but the teams in the league would be unable to retain high quality players.
I haven't tested this, but there is my idea.
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I believe darkcloud has done this and he seemed to like his results. I am a bit worried about some players wanting too much money for the league, yet not being good enough to get offers from major league clubs (thus putting them in free agent limbo). I havn't had a chance to test it yet, however.