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professor ape · 03-26-2007, 09:52 PM

I'm just getting my feet wet with 2007. I am doing a 24 team fictional league with full minors. I am running some seasons to tweak finances. At this point I have no salary cap, the visiting team gets 35% of the gate receipts and have a $25MM cash maximum with revenue sharing. I cut the average media contract in half to $12.5MM and that seems to be working well.

I have not touched the player creation levels or modifiers and it looks like it is giving statistical results similar to the mid 80s which I like. 50 HR is an achievement and the leage ERA hovers around 4.00 (no DH).

I have the Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Cuban and Mexican leagues but no winter leagues because they don't operate properly yet. I have it such that free agents can move between international leagues but there is no trading.

I am trying the feeder leagues and like them. I am trying to find the right balance but think that I will be setting up an abreviated version of the NCAA for the college feeders (8-10 conferences). I will have a number of US high school teams but will also set up some foreign "high school" leagues to represent the youth development programs in Latin America and a few other countries.

I figure that I am going to spend about six and a half years setting up these leagues with logos and custom colors for everything except the HS level. Then I might actually play a game.

03-26-2007, 09:52 PM	#2
professor ape All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The belly of the beast Posts: 1,498	I'm just getting my feet wet with 2007. I am doing a 24 team fictional league with full minors. I am running some seasons to tweak finances. At this point I have no salary cap, the visiting team gets 35% of the gate receipts and have a $25MM cash maximum with revenue sharing. I cut the average media contract in half to $12.5MM and that seems to be working well. I have not touched the player creation levels or modifiers and it looks like it is giving statistical results similar to the mid 80s which I like. 50 HR is an achievement and the leage ERA hovers around 4.00 (no DH). I have the Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Cuban and Mexican leagues but no winter leagues because they don't operate properly yet. I have it such that free agents can move between international leagues but there is no trading. I am trying the feeder leagues and like them. I am trying to find the right balance but think that I will be setting up an abreviated version of the NCAA for the college feeders (8-10 conferences). I will have a number of US high school teams but will also set up some foreign "high school" leagues to represent the youth development programs in Latin America and a few other countries. I figure that I am going to spend about six and a half years setting up these leagues with logos and custom colors for everything except the HS level. Then I might actually play a game.