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Available cash clarification needed.
I have recently joined an OOTP online league. I am not seeing eye to eye with my commissioner on an issue. What is in dispute is how much cash my team has available to it. He claims -$5,837,290. I claim +$7,150,849. I realize he is a veteran of this sort of thing and is probably right but I do not see the flaw in my reasoning. Please see the picture below and both of our explanations and let me know where I am wrong. Thanks in advance for your insight.
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04-03-2009, 02:01 PM | #2 |
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You also have access to the cash field for your team. Look at your financial report from your team home page.
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04-03-2009, 02:32 PM | #5 |
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It looks like this
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04-03-2009, 02:35 PM | #6 |
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That report is says CASH at the same value the Starting Balance does on the other sheet.
For some reason it doesn't add in the media revenue I have already gotten. If you get that rvenue in a lump sum, does it not count towards cash until the start of the next season? |
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04-17-2009, 02:31 PM | #8 |
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Maybe we should be asking, what is the purpose for this argument over "cash"? Is it that you want to trade said cash? If so, I think it's pretty clear that "current balance" means cash, not "starting balance" which may as well be called "balance some time ago" or "cash some time ago". If it's for $ for FA or extensions, then no that's something else entirely.
As you already probably realize, OOTP is not at all good at naming or displaying or processing (why are some things lump sums when they probably shouldn't be and others are not?) financials and so it can be confusing, but just because the game calls it something (in the editor here which was probably thrown together) doesn't mean it is that something. Sometimes you need to use common sense to figure things out, which I think you have here, rather than just rely on what you see. I'm going to move the thread to the managers' lounge as I think it's more of an online league question.
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04-19-2009, 12:43 PM | #10 |
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Does that cash number (starting balance) update throughout the season? If not, and that is how it does it then it sounds like the game is using the wrong figure for cash. Surely it only makes sense to use the current balance figure and not the year's starting balance. Whether the revenue is earned or not I don't think should matter (that's more an accounting issue). If the money has been given to you (again, some of it probably shouldn't be, but that's a separate issue, then it should be made available to dispense how one sees fit.
I obviously don't make many trades involving cash otherwise I should have known this. |
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