I sense my league is gonna have financial problems.

[juanito89]

I just came out of the inaugural draft after 35 years of simming, and the teams in my league show a projected final balance of between - 30M $ and - 10M $ (I'm currently in the pre-season).

I drafted with fixed budgets, and then assigned fictional finantials to all teams, based on their payrolls.

Can I fix this?

[endgame]

If you want to rationalize an intervention, the easiest way is to go to League Setup, Financials, and select Assign Fictional Financials to Teams. Back up your existing, in the event you don't agree with the changes or simply prefer another method.

OTOH, dependent on total revenues, maybe the 10-30mil red isn't outrageous. The one element that would concern me- not that I know much about financials -is if all teams are in the red. That's usually indicative of a global problem. FWIW

After re-reading your post, if it's the inaugural draft after a 35 year history, maybe a renewed fictional adjustment is in order and can fit into the history you have for your universe. Always up to you, though.

[ike121212]

Teams showing a negative projected balance at this point isn't necessarily a problem. Projecting ticket revenue this early is notoriously rough. I'd take a look at what the financial projection tool shows and probably check the average budget vs the previous year's average revenue. If it's clear that the expenses are too high, you've got simple options to fix it, but there might not be a real problem.

[juanito89]

Alright, here's a screenshot of my league's financial report, showing payrolls, media revenues, and current budgets for most of the teams in my league. This is a day after the start of the pre-season.

I also include a screenshot of my team's budget info. I'm 80M in the red. My team is the worst in this department, but every single team more than 30M deep in the red.



I believe I would like to know the options to make my intervention :P

[ike121212]

What does the previous years revenue show?

-81m beginning balance...are owners on, and yours is generous?

[Shinobu]

OK, I love that your league is set in Westeros! (George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" book series...)

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by ike121212

What does the previous years revenue show?

-81m beginning balance...are owners on, and yours is generous?

Yes, owners are on. In most cases, they take the money to replace the preceding year balance (negative) from their own pockets. Mine is indeed generous, but this is the case even with economizing owners and such.

Here's the last year revenues for the team I posted previously.

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by Shinobu

OK, I love that your league is set in Westeros! (George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" book series...)

Thank you!

It's not much, really. I did get all the sigils for the team logos, gave every team the right colors (based on the sigil), tried to mimic the weather (the Mormonts, Starks, Boltons and such play in Alaskan weather ), divided the divisions by region - but I'm sure anyone could do a much better job.

[ike121212]

Good or bad, that's how owners work in 12. The massive negative numbers bother me, but they don't really cause problems in game play. I turn owners off (giving access to all revenue). This sets budgets closer to revenues and results in less red ink.

[juanito89]

Every time I re-assign fictional contracts and then fictional financials, budgets and contracts go up. My team's payroll just went from 180 million to 260 million.

Why doesn't the game just follow the financial setting in game setup?

[ike121212]

Originally Posted by juanito89

Every time I re-assign fictional contracts and then fictional financials, budgets and contracts go up. My team's payroll just went from 180 million to 260 million.

Why doesn't the game just follow the financial setting in game setup?

I could dig up Markus' comments on it, but the reality is that owner's are just set to throw way too much money away. Take their control over the budget away and you'll be happier.

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by ike121212

I could dig up Markus' comments on it, but the reality is that owner's are just set to throw way too much money away. Take their control over the budget away and you'll be happier.

Are you referring to the "team owner controls budget?" option?

I don't want the financials to be perfect in my league - in fact, the only thing I really want is to have some teams being generally stronger than others based on the fact that they have more money.

At the same time, I want this to be dynamic - I don't want the same teams always as the richer or poorer teams. I don't want nobody going broke either, or stars sitting in free agency because nobody has the money to hire them.

If I can get these things I'll be happy (although the fact that some players are now making $60M per year does bug me a bit).

[ike121212]

Originally Posted by juanito89

Are you referring to the "team owner controls budget?" option?

Yes. Give it a shot and then recalc the player contracts and team budgets. I think you'll be a lot happier with the results.

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by ike121212

Yes. Give it a shot and then recalc the player contracts and team budgets. I think you'll be a lot happier with the results.

Actually it didn't help, sadly.

I turned owners off, then recalced - the budgets and salaries went still higher. One guy in my team is making 90 million per year now

[jtnlange]

Did you mess with the financials.TXT file? Looks like you have cash max set to $0. Could that hae something to do with it?

Trevor

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by jtnlange

Did you mess with the financials.TXT file? Looks like you have cash max set to $0. Could that hae something to do with it?

Trevor

I didn't, cash max is set to $1,420,000.

Here's my game's financial setup. I imported the 2010 settings.

[ike121212]

Originally Posted by juanito89

Actually it didn't help, sadly.

I turned owners off, then recalced - the budgets and salaries went still higher. One guy in my team is making 90 million per year now

Hmmm, that really surprises me. I won't pretend to know too much about recalc though. Have you tried recalcing team budgets after the players? I believe that a big part of the teams budget is their salary obligations.

I play with owners off and a 60% revenue share. The high revenue teams have about a 10% advantage over the average and the poor performing teams are about 10% below. About 75% of the teams lose $ each year, but it's usually within 20% of their budget. I'm not completely happy with it, but it's working well enough.

[juanito89]

Originally Posted by ike121212

Hmmm, that really surprises me. I won't pretend to know too much about recalc though. Have you tried recalcing team budgets after the players? I believe that a big part of the teams budget is their salary obligations.

I play with owners off and a 60% revenue share. The high revenue teams have about a 10% advantage over the average and the poor performing teams are about 10% below. About 75% of the teams lose $ each year, but it's usually within 20% of their budget. I'm not completely happy with it, but it's working well enough.

I set revenue sharing to 60% (I had it set at luxury tax), then recalced again, budgets AFTER players. My payroll is at $400M now

Sadly considering turning off financials now.

[ike121212]

Originally Posted by juanito89

I set revenue sharing to 60% (I had it set at luxury tax), then recalced again, budgets AFTER players. My payroll is at $400M now

Sadly considering turning off financials now.

lol, don't give up that easy! Maybe try changing the year to like 1950, recalcing, then going back to 2011.

[jtnlange]

I redo personel contracts then players and then recalc teams and that always seems to work for me.

Trevor