Question about altered finances, does it crash next season?

Anti-Strike · 08-17-2002, 04:22 PM

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I've played a lot of OOTP4 but never tried what I'm about to do. I've put a lot of work into recreating a fictional baseball league that begins in 1900. I've fibbed a little compared to actual history by doing things such as enabling finances, approx. 25-45K stadium seats for most franchises and a 5-man roster/large bullpen in 1900. I wanted to keep everything the same and see what kind of records my fictional MLB would end up with by 2000. I set up the front office section with market sizes and media contracts that reflect the actual size of the city in 1900. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this was changed if I adjusted it before the overall initial league draft. So now the media contracts, cash reserves, market size and other things have been changed. I want to change them back to their original numbers so that my league can be historically accurate for the demographics of the time and also reflect the history of small/large market baseball. The only problem is some clubs have large salary totals and the same team won't be able to support the load after I change the finances into a smaller total to reflect the size of the city at the time. I'm going to sim a few games play-by-play so I'll be spending a lot of time on this one season. What exactly happens to the teams that can no longer support their current rosters with adjusted numbers? Does the game crash? Do they empty their roster at the end of the year? Am I okay? Thanks for the help.

JML · 08-17-2002, 10:16 PM

I believe you will end up with all of your superstars (and probably even scrubs) sitting in FA by the second season because none of the teams can afford them. They will probably play through the first season, but by season two everyone will be so far in debt that they won't resign anyone. As soon as everyone's initial contract has expired, you'll have them sitting in free agency.

The ability to recreate dollar-values of bygone eras is something that has been requested as a feature for future versions, so I assume that it cannot currently be done, though I have never tried it myself. If you use finances in 1900, you just have to live with the numbers being abnormally large.

08-17-2002, 04:22 PM	#1
Anti-Strike Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1	Question about altered finances, does it crash next season? Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I've played a lot of OOTP4 but never tried what I'm about to do. I've put a lot of work into recreating a fictional baseball league that begins in 1900. I've fibbed a little compared to actual history by doing things such as enabling finances, approx. 25-45K stadium seats for most franchises and a 5-man roster/large bullpen in 1900. I wanted to keep everything the same and see what kind of records my fictional MLB would end up with by 2000. I set up the front office section with market sizes and media contracts that reflect the actual size of the city in 1900. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that this was changed if I adjusted it before the overall initial league draft. So now the media contracts, cash reserves, market size and other things have been changed. I want to change them back to their original numbers so that my league can be historically accurate for the demographics of the time and also reflect the history of small/large market baseball. The only problem is some clubs have large salary totals and the same team won't be able to support the load after I change the finances into a smaller total to reflect the size of the city at the time. I'm going to sim a few games play-by-play so I'll be spending a lot of time on this one season. What exactly happens to the teams that can no longer support their current rosters with adjusted numbers? Does the game crash? Do they empty their roster at the end of the year? Am I okay? Thanks for the help.

08-17-2002, 10:16 PM	#2
JML Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The act or process of locating. Posts: 2,154	I believe you will end up with all of your superstars (and probably even scrubs) sitting in FA by the second season because none of the teams can afford them. They will probably play through the first season, but by season two everyone will be so far in debt that they won't resign anyone. As soon as everyone's initial contract has expired, you'll have them sitting in free agency. The ability to recreate dollar-values of bygone eras is something that has been requested as a feature for future versions, so I assume that it cannot currently be done, though I have never tried it myself. If you use finances in 1900, you just have to live with the numbers being abnormally large.