Financial Coefficient Help

bucketsndimes · 10-01-2007, 11:58 PM

What exactly does the financial coefficient do?

If you decrease it just it just make everything cheaper (Tickets, player salaries, media contracts, etc.?)

Wanted to know because I am making a Canadian League in my game and want it to start out small meaning like a huge salary would be like $150 grand.

Should I just adjust the financial coefficient or in the game setup just change allt he average salaries and ticket price?

Simmo13 · 10-02-2007, 04:20 AM

If you open Sports Interactive/OOTP7/Data/Financials you'll get a sort of spreadsheet with yearly salaries (superstar/star/average/etc) ticket prices and lots of other stuff so I imagine if you find a year where the superstar salary is $150,000 it will be a good guide as to other financial settings.
Hope this helps.

fhomess · 10-02-2007, 01:38 PM

There's two ways to adjust finances in OOTP. The first is to adjust the financial coefficient, and the second is to adjust the individual financial settings for salaries and the like. The basic question to ask yourself is whether or not you are hoping to have your league finances change over time. Essentially, are you going to model inflation or will it be a static financial environment.

If it's static, it doesn't matter if you adjust the financial coefficient or the individual settings. If dynamic, then you do NOT want to use the coefficient. The reason for this is that adjusting the coefficient doesn't change the actual stored values. The game merely scales them according to the coefficient. So if you set the coefficient to 1 and then a year later set it to 2, all you financials will double. A player making $500k will now be making $1 million, even though his contract wasn't renegotiated. If instead, you double the individual financial settings, then existing financial numbers will not change, and the effects of your new settings will only be applied from the time of the change forward. Existing contracts remain at their old values until the contracts are renewed and negotiated in the new financial environment. The $500k player continues to make $500k until his contract runs out, at which point he's likely to ask for $1 million.

bucketsndimes · 10-02-2007, 06:13 PM

Thanks that was what I was looking for.

10-01-2007, 11:58 PM	#1
bucketsndimes Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The States Posts: 409	Financial Coefficient Help What exactly does the financial coefficient do? If you decrease it just it just make everything cheaper (Tickets, player salaries, media contracts, etc.?) Wanted to know because I am making a Canadian League in my game and want it to start out small meaning like a huge salary would be like $150 grand. Should I just adjust the financial coefficient or in the game setup just change allt he average salaries and ticket price? __________________

10-02-2007, 01:38 PM	#3
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,693	There's two ways to adjust finances in OOTP. The first is to adjust the financial coefficient, and the second is to adjust the individual financial settings for salaries and the like. The basic question to ask yourself is whether or not you are hoping to have your league finances change over time. Essentially, are you going to model inflation or will it be a static financial environment. If it's static, it doesn't matter if you adjust the financial coefficient or the individual settings. If dynamic, then you do NOT want to use the coefficient. The reason for this is that adjusting the coefficient doesn't change the actual stored values. The game merely scales them according to the coefficient. So if you set the coefficient to 1 and then a year later set it to 2, all you financials will double. A player making $500k will now be making $1 million, even though his contract wasn't renegotiated. If instead, you double the individual financial settings, then existing financial numbers will not change, and the effects of your new settings will only be applied from the time of the change forward. Existing contracts remain at their old values until the contracts are renewed and negotiated in the new financial environment. The $500k player continues to make $500k until his contract runs out, at which point he's likely to ask for $1 million. __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.

10-02-2007, 06:13 PM	#4
bucketsndimes Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The States Posts: 409	Thanks that was what I was looking for. __________________

10-02-2007, 04:20 AM	#2
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	If you open Sports Interactive/OOTP7/Data/Financials you'll get a sort of spreadsheet with yearly salaries (superstar/star/average/etc) ticket prices and lots of other stuff so I imagine if you find a year where the superstar salary is $150,000 it will be a good guide as to other financial settings. Hope this helps.