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Originally Posted by georgecf
I had taken over a poorly-run team several years ago in an online-league and have been digging out of a financial hole . . .
I understood last off-season that I had no money for Free Agents, because we were deeply in the hole . . .
I had been looking forward to this off-season, but again there is no money for Free Agents . . . Yet there is $38,283,000 available for extensions . . .
Is there anything I can do, other than trading some big contracts away, to free up money for free agents?
TIA
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The first thing you need to do is understand your financial situation.
Go to your
Accounting tab and then
Front Office
Start with your
budget. That's how much your owner will allow you to spend. If you're not playing with owners, then you have your total
Revenue to use.
Then look at your
expenses
Player Expenses - those are your contracts
Staff Expenses - contracts for your staff and front office
Scouting Expense - money for your scouting department
Draft Expenses - this is either how much you have already spent on the draft, or money you plan to spend on the draft
Player Development Expenses - money for player development
Miscellaneous Player Expenses - I'm not sure, but I think, this is where money for bonuses and maybe retained salary goes.
**If you don't have an owner that sets your budget, you'll also have to consider any revenue sharing you'll expect to pay.
Those should be all of your expenses
Whatever is left over (plus cash) is what you have available for signing free agents (or increasing your scouting or development budgets, spending more on the draft, international free agency, etc).
The only way you can increase that is to increase your budget or decrease your expenses.
You can, sometimes, increase your budget by meeting owner goals.
You can decrease your expenses by:
-trading away players with contracts
-non-tendering players who are arbitration eligible
-lowering the amounts you spend on player development, scouting, the draft or international free agents.
That's it.
I gave up on using the accounting system within the game, because it was never clear to me how it worked. I do my own accounting. I don't know where the number for money available for extensions comes from.
Understanding the accounting will, I think, help you better run your team and, maybe, provide some useful skills for life outside of OOTP.