Ok, yes i understand the sudden 9m in scouting expenses is what put the teams in the Red, but I suppose i'm not wording the question correctly.
Lets say I initially created my league with Scouting on. Maybe all teams would start with slightly higher budgets in order to compensate for their scouting expenses?
Lets look at it the other way around.
You start a league, scoutings on. Teams go about doing their thing, bla bla bla . One day I just turn off scouting . Now these teams are suddenly going to have millions of extra dollars to spend on free agents, which would throw things out of whack the opposite way.
It seems to me like having budget on vs off should adjust the OVERALL budget number, allowing teams to perform in a relatively normal manner either way. If you are running a league with scouting off and then turn it on, it shouldn't bankrupt all teams immediately, because if you had played with scouting on from the beginning, their finances would have been auto-generated in such a way that they'd have some wiggle room taking the scouting into account already.
I know what i want to say but i guess its hard explaining it.
In other words, having the Marlins have a budget of 29.5 million regardless of whether Scouting/Development is on or off doesnt seem right.