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06-10-2014, 07:52 PM | #1 |
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Looking for salary cap help ...
I have two questions:
Is there a way to set it so that the salary cap, year in and year out, doesn't change? What would the salary cap have been in, say for example, the 1970's? The 80's? |
06-10-2014, 08:49 PM | #2 | |
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If there were a salary cap for the 70s/80s it would probably be about $6 - 10 million, unless you're talking late 80s, because that's when free agency started to amp up, and the PA won the collusion suit.
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06-11-2014, 10:32 PM | #3 |
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Tram, thanks for looking. For the 90's what would have been an appropriate salary cap? I see the player salaries of today, and want to throw up. Actually I have felt that way for a long, long time. What should top tier players, in a world of economics that seems fair to the common man, be paid per year? Bench warmers? Draftees? The thought of playing with finances turned off is appealing, but players have to support their families, so ...
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06-11-2014, 10:47 PM | #4 |
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This was a salary cap setup I used back in OOTP12 and 13. It's not perfect, and it was one of my early attempts, but it held pretty steadily for about 15 seasons.
The reason the Media Contracts and Cash Maximum were set the way they were was to ensure that each team made enough money to spend to the cap every season (I wanted some real parity). If you want realistic profits and all that jazz, you'd have to tinker with this setup. But the salary numbers on their own should still work. |
06-12-2014, 11:30 PM | #5 |
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I just set my modern cap where it hits the top four or five teams. Then try to personally spend between 1/2 & 2/3 of that. Figure that way the top spending PC teams have an advantage over me. It is interesting how teams can bump over the cap for a bit.
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06-13-2014, 05:25 AM | #6 | |
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MLB proposed a salary cap system in the run up to the 1990 lockout. It called for players to be guaranteed 48% of revenue from ticket sales and both local and national broadcasting contracts. Using 1988 MLB revenues as an example, the players' share would have been $401.4 million. That works out to an average of $15.4 million per club, which likely would have been the cap. The average opening day payroll for the 1988 season was $11.5 million, with the range going from $5.4 million to $19.4 million. Two other facets of real-world salary cap systems to note: (1) If clubs fail to spend the designated portion of revenues on player salaries, they are required to cut checks to make up the shortfall, with the proceeds being divided amongst the players. That means clubs may have an extra expense at the end of the season. Either that, or the salary cap is raised by the shortfall amount for the next season (it depends on the particulars of the salary cap system used by a league). (2) Salary cap systems have special accounting rules to handle how salaries are determined for salary cap purposes. That means what a player is actually paid during a season can differ considerably from what the salary is for salary cap purposes. Note that OOTP's salary cap system doesn't recreate either of the above items. |
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06-13-2014, 12:14 PM | #7 | |
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Operating revenues, operating expenses, and operating profits (losses) for the 26 major league baseball teams (28 teams beginning in 1993), as obtained by The Associated Press from management financial statements. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars after 1983, except for 1994, which is rounded to the nearest million. Year Revenues Expenses Profit (Loss) ------------------------------------------------- 1975 162,598,094 166,312,851 (3,714,757) 1976 182,035,149 186,704,462 (4,669,313) 1977 233,285,111 236,155,850 (2,870,739) 1978 265,308,026 265,303,440 4,586 1979 301,750,111 302,363,300 (613,189) 1980 351,404,824 371,177,557 (19,772,733) 1981 279,148,414 384,533,669 (105,385,255) 1982 442,642,488 534,737,436 (92,094,948) 1983 521,656,909 588,260,780 (66,603,871) 1984 624,223,000 665,211,000 (40,988,000) 1985 717,813,000 724,896,000 (7,083,000) 1986 791,875,000 780,347,000 11,528,000 1987 910,877,000 809,933,000 100,944,000 1988 1,007,519,000 885,915,000 121,604,000 1989 1,241,059,000 1,026,550,000 214,509,000 1990 1,336,530,000 1,193,663,000 142,867,000 1991 1,537,395,000 1,438,442,000 98,953,000 1992 1,663,367,000 1,641,146,000 22,221,000 1993 1,865,561,000 1,829,479,000 36,082,000 1994 1,208,000,000 1,584,000,000 (376,000,000) 1995 1,354,556,000 1,680,107,000 (325,551,000) Notes 1981 revenue does not include $46.8 million from strike insurance 1995 figures were preliminary estimates Original article listed 1978 profit as (4,586). This was likely a typo and is corrected in the above table. Original article listed 1990 profit as (19,772,933). This was likely a typo and is corrected in the above table. |
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06-13-2014, 11:28 PM | #9 |
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Thank you, everyone, for taking a look. I guess I would make for a boss most enjoying work for, but an investor would never touch my business. In my world there would never be inflation. The salary cap would be the same each year, all money coming out of nowhere. Let's just call it "the jackpot". Whether teams spent all of that money or not, the yearly contribution to them from the jackpot would be the same. If a team's balance at season end was 3.7 million, and the yearly gift to them is 40 million, the balance heading into the new season would be 43.7 million. In effect teams could "tank" for a better shot the next season or even five seasons down the road. Teams could trade away players for cash, raising their balance. There would be free agency so that players could seek an upper echelon salary, but that salary could never be higher than the allotted salary for said level. Allotted salaries would never change. Players in their prime would earn the better of the allotted salaries, those on the decline or less talented would not make as much.
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06-14-2014, 01:11 AM | #10 | |
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