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dcd111 · 08-19-2015, 02:32 PM

I'm a General Manager of a major league team, we're in preseason, I have plenty of Projected Budget Room and I'm not over the team salary cap. I am in control of setting budgets for scouting and development according to the team control settings. Yet, when I go to change my scouting or development budgets, I'm getting some very strange results.

The baselines are $2,430,000 for each of these budgets (late 1980's financials).

On the Finances tab, last year's amounts for each of these was $1,215,000. I have had to keep it low for a variety of reasons, but now I have plenty of available budget room, so I want to increase to at least be around league average.

When I type in $2,430,000, it changes to $1,444,360 instead. If I type over it again with $2,430,000, it changes to $1,673,720. Increasing by no more than $229,360 each time. Okay, annoying, but I can work around it.

Here's where it gets stranger. If I type in a number in the Scouting tab, it reverts to $1,215,000, no matter what I type in. Same thing in the development tab. It's acting like I'm over budget and forcing me to use 50% of the league baseline, but there's no reason it should be doing that. I have a projected balance of over $6,000,000, and a current balance of over $9,000,000. There's a hard salary cap of $14,000,000, and I'm not over it or projected to be.

I started looking around, most teams have the same budgets: $1,215,000, although some have up to $1,800,000 or so. But none are at the baseline. How can that be? Most teams have a lot of money and are under the salary cap, the league financials haven't imploded or anything like that.

What am I missing here? Is there an amount you can't go over the league average? And why is the average so much lower than the baseline in the league setup?

08-19-2015, 02:32 PM	#1
dcd111 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 131	Scouting and development budget issues I'm a General Manager of a major league team, we're in preseason, I have plenty of Projected Budget Room and I'm not over the team salary cap. I am in control of setting budgets for scouting and development according to the team control settings. Yet, when I go to change my scouting or development budgets, I'm getting some very strange results. The baselines are $2,430,000 for each of these budgets (late 1980's financials). On the Finances tab, last year's amounts for each of these was $1,215,000. I have had to keep it low for a variety of reasons, but now I have plenty of available budget room, so I want to increase to at least be around league average. When I type in $2,430,000, it changes to $1,444,360 instead. If I type over it again with $2,430,000, it changes to $1,673,720. Increasing by no more than $229,360 each time. Okay, annoying, but I can work around it. Here's where it gets stranger. If I type in a number in the Scouting tab, it reverts to $1,215,000, no matter what I type in. Same thing in the development tab. It's acting like I'm over budget and forcing me to use 50% of the league baseline, but there's no reason it should be doing that. I have a projected balance of over $6,000,000, and a current balance of over $9,000,000. There's a hard salary cap of $14,000,000, and I'm not over it or projected to be. I started looking around, most teams have the same budgets: $1,215,000, although some have up to $1,800,000 or so. But none are at the baseline. How can that be? Most teams have a lot of money and are under the salary cap, the league financials haven't imploded or anything like that. What am I missing here? Is there an amount you can't go over the league average? And why is the average so much lower than the baseline in the league setup? Last edited by dcd111; 08-19-2015 at 02:41 PM.