[NoOne]

revenue is everything -- it is your "potential" as a GM. your ceiling is how many good players you can afford.

obviously, that's simplified. lots of tricks to the trade involving good financial management and timely trading.

ignore everything else that goes into 'winning'. if you have 20M more money to spend you can make a better team right?

now, you just need to devise and plan best practices of using that money in the most efficient ways possible to squeeze the most wins as possible out of your team.

if you have less money but better practices, you will outproduce larger budgets -- to some extent... it's possible the difference is just too great in some contexts too. however, take your same practices and get a larger budget and you 100% win more than before unless mildly ******ed, lol.

budget is the ceiling for anyone -- so it is "king" in that respect.

like thepretender said, trading for it is probably not the best option available. maybe it can be abused? if you trade to enough teams and the AI doesn't protect against raiding cash, they will not be able to perform normal offseason functions etc... buying worse players etc. if you can make your competition poor, it may very well be a viable strategy, although more of a loophole in video game logic than anything else.