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I always thought that attendence was set too low for the early years of baseball in this game. If you try to mimic MLB as much as possible, teams will already have smaller stadiums, have no media contracts, so the low attendence seems to compound the problem.

With FA off, after a while things seem to balance out, players definately get paid less than what they are worth since they get a contract based on their previous years performance mixed in to how big a market the team they play for. I know this because once I clicked to give every player a new contract, and the payrolls skyrocketed up.

In my OOTPX fictional historical league, I did have to give some cash to teams once in a while, and I usually gave the fanbase a boost when a club moved to a new stadium, just to keep things going up. Turned out all right, teams were making money, a few couldn't, and as a result sucked every year, my Washington club truly was Last in the American League, every single year, along with the Red Sox.

And you have to set up market sizes to as they would have been back in the day. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cinicnnati all would have been considered a bigger market in the 40's than they would be today, now with the west coast boom and many of the older cities shrinking.