[Cliche]

Even when owner budgets are turned off, each team still gets a wildly different budget for the next season (and a projected budget for the season after that, etc).

I play in a very competitive league where we like to have the financial freedom to make the moves you want to make, but you must of course live with the consequences. So maybe you can sign your star player to that insane contract he wants, but it will restrict you in other ways.

We just want the ability to spend in accordance to the revenue generated by the teams, rather than an arbitrary budget set by the game.

In older versions, there were work-arounds to this. They were a pain, but it was doable. Now with the "projected future budget" factoring directly in to contract math, that isn't really possible.

Why is OOTP so hell bent on enforcing imaginary budgets, even when you turn them off?