profitability report

[fredbeene]

I see rev and expenses.....where is the total profit report by team?
If i play in GM mode, ultimately my main goal for 1 way to play is to be the most profitable.

[ExeR]

Originally Posted by fredbeene

I see rev and expenses.....where is the total profit report by team?
If i play in GM mode, ultimately my main goal for 1 way to play is to be the most profitable.

Not a feature, as far as I know, but you can do it yourself through accounting tab in Front Office. They have last 2 years and btw that's one of the ways to forecast Owner Goals (two years in red may force even richest teams to create profit goal).
I would love to see this added too, but in general there are some obstacles:
1) Owners change.
2) Teams relocated or added.
3) AI not really going for profit, even if it's afraid of big/veteran salary.
4) Different starting conditions. Yankees, Dodgers, Angels dynasty will print money and trash you even if you run "the best of the rest" moneyball team perfectly. If you play w/o injuries it's almost guarantee some team will own the league.
So even if everything works, you can't really evaluate "profitability", because it needs to be relative.
F.e. I got Miami to max capacity, then dragged ticket price to same range as my division rivals, then increased market size. I used playoff luck vs Dodgers & never paying pitchers as fuel. Could've made more, but I paid some superstars and sniped some Int. FA (13 mil bonus one turned out to be instant bust). But in the end all those extra playoff games almost every year added up nicely.
So I suggest running a more complex "profitability". I used a spreadsheet for whole league. Make some goals or mark teams by scale. Pretty obvious point, as small teams want max capacity and drag ticket price close to rich&popular teams, middle of the pack don't want to fall into Pitt/Mia territory, rich teams must have success. After that it's all about relative performance. Small teams must have extreme outliers in production who are cheap. Not every 1mil guy will play like 10+ mil guy on rich team, so even if you have 1 or 2 it won't matter. Big teams are on other end of spectrum & will want to nail big signings & int FA & draftees who dropped because of high signing bonus demand. They operate in kind of "deny other teams with resources" mindset. So in FA, when all of them have 30+ mil, whoever gets to superstar wins, all other lose. And some of losers will run into season from hell that will drop their finances to the toilet. So longterm&consistency of not being bad is more important for them. I started one save in Pitt, and ran the best org for a time. But after I left they slowly rolled back and ended up moving. While big teams might've not won as much as they wanted to, but stayed in big boys bracket. Cleveland was like that in Mia save. They made 0 bad signings and had decent injury luck so they made it to WS almost every year. At one point Yankees were strangled by budget issues, while Cleveland was scooping best FA & Int. FA. Instead of 3-peat I got swept with some record margin by them, and next offseason they had biggest FA budget while being best team.
So big team might make less relative to budget number, but their mediocre/good year might be good for budget and put them into position to strike gold(reach max profit potential) next year. Small team might go to WS and still struggle to find CAP for superstar FA next year. And their bad/mediocre year will be really bad for everything, since they're on the clock for rookie deals getting closer to arbitration&FA.