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Originally Posted by BoSoxFan2
Definitely put the $$$ into player development. Don't go cheap. In my expansion league, I had the 31st ranked farm system, then after doubling my player development budget to $24,000,000 from the league average, my farm system went from 31st to 14th in one year, and then 14th to 2nd the next. Granted I added a couple of players in the draft, but more interestingly, I had a couple of 16th round picks make the bigs, which I don't think would've happened otherwise.
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Huh, interesting. Is anyone aware of a study on the affects of the budget? I've had my farm system makes similar jumps in online leagues with the budget turned off simply through drafting, trading and signing international free agents.