The first screenshot below shows a team whose financial page indicates $9.3 million for signing draftees.
The second screen shot shows a screenshot during the draft indicating that the team has drafted players demanding $7.5 million and that this puts the team more than $5 million in the hole.
Based on OOTP 13, this would seem wrong. That $9.3 million for signing draftees was, in past versions, totally separate money from the rest of the budget. In fact, if you did not spend it all your draft money, you simply lost it. That money for always there for signing draft picks. (You could also, if you overspent that draft budget, spend additional budget room money, if you had it. Thus, the financial page below would mean, at least in 13 that the team had $9.3 million purely for the draft plus $2.3 million available for signings in general...budget room minus the cash shortfall from the previous year.. for a total of $11.6 million as an absolute upper limit.)
From the draft screenshot, it would seem this has changed. Apparently the team has far less than $9 million to spend on the draft, since they are far under zero after incurring a $7.5 million bonus demand... Thus, unless this is a bug, the "draft expenses" is really a meaningless item on the financial page. This team has $2.3 million to spend, so that is all they have for signing draftees.
1) First, I would like clarification from Markus (or someone in the know about 14 finances) that this is the case:
When determining how much money is available for the draft, we should not look at "draft expenses" but at $ for free agents.
2) If that is the case, I would question the clarity of the way this is presented on the financial page screen.
3) If this is the case, I am also uneasy about the design decision. I suspect that this is going to lead AI teams (and humans in online leagues) to end up signing fewer draft picks, leading to strange and unrealistic draft situations.
