Help with team budgets

[dnashifter]

I want player salaries in my fictional league to be based upon average 1938 MLB salaries, forever, but with a modern day arbitration and free agent system. Unticking the option to automatically load new financial info every year seems to do that, but budgets rise over time regardless, so that 25 years in I have an average player salary of $9000 or so and a median budget of close to a million dollars. Every team is well in the black, suffice it to say.

I know I can manually edit all these down to where I want them, but is there a way to stop them from rising again? I don't mind fluctuations in budget, but would like it be around a fixed point.

[SteveP]

Originally Posted by dnashifter

I want player salaries in my fictional league to be based upon average 1938 MLB salaries, forever, but with a modern day arbitration and free agent system. Unticking the option to automatically load new financial info every year seems to do that, but budgets rise over time regardless, so that 25 years in I have an average player salary of $9000 or so and a median budget of close to a million dollars. Every team is well in the black, suffice it to say.

I know I can manually edit all these down to where I want them, but is there a way to stop them from rising again? I don't mind fluctuations in budget, but would like it be around a fixed point.

Off hand, that strikes me as a bit odd. If all the financial parameters are staying the same, then I don't know how budgets could be rising. The cash wouldn't be there. Are you saying that total payroll is staying at 1938 levels, but that everything else (ticket prices, media dollars, etc) is going up? Looking at a team's financial page ought to show what is inconsistent with 1938. Unless there is a bug in the way the budget is being created, so that it's out of line with cash.

[dnashifter]

Originally Posted by SteveP

Are you saying that total payroll is staying at 1938 levels, but that everything else (ticket prices, media dollars, etc) is going up? Looking at a team's financial page ought to show what is inconsistent with 1938. Unless there is a bug in the way the budget is being created, so that it's out of line with cash.

Yeah, you're right, thanks. I should have played with it more before posting. The average ticket price that loads up for 1938 is 99 cents, but apparently that's just way too high for my league, between it and merchandising, teams were raking in money hand over fist. I slashed it to a quarter as an experiment and it made an immediate difference. Now to find the perfect value.