Budgets

Zeppelin462 · 11-30-2009, 09:53 PM

Is there a way to force CPU-controlled teams to stay within the owner's budget? I stay within the owner's budget for my team as an unwritten rule, but I cannot seem to find the way to force other teams to do so.

SteveP · 11-30-2009, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Zeppelin462

Is there a way to force CPU-controlled teams to stay within the owner's budget? I stay within the owner's budget for my team as an unwritten rule, but I cannot seem to find the way to force other teams to do so.

Two dimensions to answering your question:

1. The AI can use all the help it can get.

2. You are more likely to get useful insight if you could provide specific detail to show what you mean when you say the AI doesn't have to stay within a budget. It's possible that you are misinterpreting the data. Or something else.

jmknpk2 · 12-01-2009, 11:13 AM

I don't have an answer, but in leagues I just started (first season or so), the teams seem to go over budget. After a year or two, they seem to get their money in line.

Zeppelin462 · 12-01-2009, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveP

2. You are more likely to get useful insight if you could provide specific detail to show what you mean when you say the AI doesn't have to stay within a budget. It's possible that you are misinterpreting the data. Or something else.

When I observe the league financial report, it shows every team's budget set by the owner. It also shows player payroll. Almost half of the team payrolls in my league are well over the budget listed by the owner. The team with the highest payroll and budget (Baltimore) has managed to go $50,000,000 over a $100,000,000 budget.

And to jmknpk2: I am about to enter my fifth season in this particular league and the financials have only become more ridiculous. The first and second years were no problem, with teams only going maybe a percentage point or two over budget, but it is getting higher and higher. I just want to contain the problem to provide some level of parity (the teams with the highest budgets are the ones that go over their budgets by tens of percentage points while smaller teams tend to stay within their budgets), as well as allowing trading to occur more extensively than simply the exchange of minor league prospects.

Zeppelin462 · 12-06-2009, 01:44 AM

Bump in hopes of someone knowing of a remedy to my problem.

11-30-2009, 09:53 PM	#1
Zeppelin462 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 129	Budgets Is there a way to force CPU-controlled teams to stay within the owner's budget? I stay within the owner's budget for my team as an unwritten rule, but I cannot seem to find the way to force other teams to do so.

12-01-2009, 11:13 AM	#3
jmknpk2 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 982	I don't have an answer, but in leagues I just started (first season or so), the teams seem to go over budget. After a year or two, they seem to get their money in line.

12-06-2009, 01:44 AM	#5
Zeppelin462 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 129	Bump in hopes of someone knowing of a remedy to my problem.