Are financials still broken or did I mess it up?

GmOfTheYear · 08-07-2017, 04:05 AM

I edited my financials just for my team to the max market size and all the other financials to give myself a really big budget. Not knowing what I was doing I changed my market size to 20 fan loyalty to 10 and fan interest to 100. I then changed the market size to 10 after seeing my budget increase to an insane 350 million. An issue I have is it seems no one in the league has any money, and I know this was an issue in previous versions but I'm not sure if the ai clubs all still end up broke eventually or if I messed the financials up myself?

At this point no one has any money even at the start of free agency. Is there any quick fix? Or how do I go about getting things back to normal?

GmOfTheYear · 08-07-2017, 04:23 AM

Hmm I think the financials are fine and the teams aren't broke even after my adjustment. For some reason teams have already started offering free agents money so no team has any money right now. Sucks because I wanted to offload some huge contracts to go after these 3 amazing 5 star international free agents

Mat · 08-07-2017, 04:25 AM

you need to plan ahead.

You can also reset financial settings under league settings

steady teddy · 08-07-2017, 07:22 AM

I usually play fictional which means the Market sizes are also fictional on initial setup. I edit them before starting a new league but try not to go too crazy. I check the financials each year of all teams Some teams might have a negative balance one year and positive cash flow the next year but it's nothing too extreme.
And a 10 setting for Market size is plenty. That's Yankess/Dodgers territory.

schreck · 08-07-2017, 09:24 AM

I had thought something was screwy too during the offseason, but I think what happens is that as you make FA offers, they subtract that from your available money. So, if you (or CPU) had $10 million available, and offered a FA $10 million, it would now look like you have $0.

That seems to be the case anyway, because I noticed some teams had obscene amounts of money available one week, then suddenly wouldn't have any and couldn't figure out why. Then realized after I made some offers that my money showing went down, and put 2 and 2 together. Moral of the story is, make your trades before the FA period begins, especially if you're looking to move salary.

GmOfTheYear · 08-07-2017, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by schreck

Moral of the story is, make your trades before the FA period begins, especially if you're looking to move salary.

Yeah this is definitely true but I give ootp credit I'm 17 years in my league and even with adjusting my teams market size to like 10-11 (tigers btw so they are close anyways) the league has run smoothly and no team runs out of cash anymore. I'm sure we can all remember when the games just weren't playable after about 10-11 years because every ai team was broke. I'm so glad they fixed it so I can finally play 100 years+ now with no problem.

08-07-2017, 04:05 AM	#1
GmOfTheYear Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 402	Are financials still broken or did I mess it up? I edited my financials just for my team to the max market size and all the other financials to give myself a really big budget. Not knowing what I was doing I changed my market size to 20 fan loyalty to 10 and fan interest to 100. I then changed the market size to 10 after seeing my budget increase to an insane 350 million. An issue I have is it seems no one in the league has any money, and I know this was an issue in previous versions but I'm not sure if the ai clubs all still end up broke eventually or if I messed the financials up myself? At this point no one has any money even at the start of free agency. Is there any quick fix? Or how do I go about getting things back to normal?

08-07-2017, 04:23 AM	#2
GmOfTheYear Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 402	Hmm I think the financials are fine and the teams aren't broke even after my adjustment. For some reason teams have already started offering free agents money so no team has any money right now. Sucks because I wanted to offload some huge contracts to go after these 3 amazing 5 star international free agents

08-07-2017, 04:25 AM	#3
Mat All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 652	you need to plan ahead. You can also reset financial settings under league settings

08-07-2017, 07:22 AM	#4
steady teddy Major Leagues Join Date: May 2003 Location: Macomb, Michigan Posts: 407	I usually play fictional which means the Market sizes are also fictional on initial setup. I edit them before starting a new league but try not to go too crazy. I check the financials each year of all teams Some teams might have a negative balance one year and positive cash flow the next year but it's nothing too extreme. And a 10 setting for Market size is plenty. That's Yankess/Dodgers territory.

08-07-2017, 09:24 AM	#5
schreck Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 53	I had thought something was screwy too during the offseason, but I think what happens is that as you make FA offers, they subtract that from your available money. So, if you (or CPU) had $10 million available, and offered a FA $10 million, it would now look like you have $0. That seems to be the case anyway, because I noticed some teams had obscene amounts of money available one week, then suddenly wouldn't have any and couldn't figure out why. Then realized after I made some offers that my money showing went down, and put 2 and 2 together. Moral of the story is, make your trades before the FA period begins, especially if you're looking to move salary.