Expansion Team Finances

Klew1986 · 03-31-2020, 09:48 AM

I will be GM of the Harrisburg Porcupines in my USBL game. They are an expansion team and I was wondering what you all would do with team finances. As you can see below, I have a team budget of $60 million. It auto-set them to have $24 million put towards the draft.

I did the option of not having the computer auto-fill my coaching staffs, so I will need to fill them out. However, it says I only have $6.8 million in cash available. Should I lower my draft budget by a few million to have more money to sign staff? I don't want to go into the red right away, considering I still have the expansion draft to do.

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Bluenoser · 03-31-2020, 09:58 AM

Lowering your development budget by a $2m or $3m for the first couple seasons won't hurt you any and will free up some money for other things.

You can up it again after a couple seasons have passed and you have a better grip on where/how your spending priorities are going to be.

Klew1986 · 03-31-2020, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bluenoser

Lowering your development budget by a $2m or $3m for the first couple seasons won't hurt you any and will free up some money for other things.

You can up it again after a couple seasons have passed and you have a better grip on where/how your spending priorities are going to be.

Would you also recommend I lower my draft budget from $24 million to say $20 million?

backupbatboy · 03-31-2020, 10:02 AM

I would argue that staff is the most important part of starting an expansion team with a Tiny budget. I would worry about them first, and worry about player payroll later. Obviously you have very little to work with, but the staff is going to be the backbone of the team until you can get some sort of competitive team fielded

03-31-2020, 09:48 AM	#1
Klew1986 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,723	Expansion Team Finances I will be GM of the Harrisburg Porcupines in my USBL game. They are an expansion team and I was wondering what you all would do with team finances. As you can see below, I have a team budget of $60 million. It auto-set them to have $24 million put towards the draft. I did the option of not having the computer auto-fill my coaching staffs, so I will need to fill them out. However, it says I only have $6.8 million in cash available. Should I lower my draft budget by a few million to have more money to sign staff? I don't want to go into the red right away, considering I still have the expansion draft to do.

03-31-2020, 09:58 AM	#2
Bluenoser Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In The Moment Posts: 13,684	Lowering your development budget by a $2m or $3m for the first couple seasons won't hurt you any and will free up some money for other things. You can up it again after a couple seasons have passed and you have a better grip on where/how your spending priorities are going to be.

03-31-2020, 10:02 AM	#4
backupbatboy Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 35	I would argue that staff is the most important part of starting an expansion team with a Tiny budget. I would worry about them first, and worry about player payroll later. Obviously you have very little to work with, but the staff is going to be the backbone of the team until you can get some sort of competitive team fielded