end of season clear-out

[strewth78]

so my 3rd season has finished (beat the dodgers in the 7th game of the world series 1-0)

I want to add a salary cap to the league 0f $150m. Can I set this straight after the WS? On my salary reports it still lists the year that I won. Should I wait until a certain point in the offseason so that the game sees it officially as the next season? I ask this because I spent over 150m that year and dont want to somehow get penalised for it. Probably not, but thought Id check.

Can I also set a minimum salary? Wish I could. Ive upped everyteams budget to atleast 100m.

What is soft cap? is this for if you go over the salarycap? what is meant by 120% of the soft cap?

....also (sorry, Ill stop after this one!), if i want to reduce my salary for the next season, say 2011, and my salary report shows that Robbie Cano is signed for 10m in 2010 and then 14m in 2011, if i release him now (2 days after the 2010WS) will the 14m i will have to pay him count on my 2010 cap number or 2011?

thanks

[strewth78]

wow, no one....

[Afino]

Sorry no one has helped you before now.

The financials "roll over" on the day Free Agents file. Until then, you'll see what you're currently seeing with the salary reports. So at that point you'd want to switch it to be safe.

Unfortunately, you can't set a salary floor. Setting budgets higher will not help things. Giving them more cash as well may, but it will also likely inflate FA demands.

Soft caps. The manual explains in detail here: OOTP Baseball Manual - Rules Page

Revenue Sharing Determines whether or not the league uses revenue sharing. There are three options:

* No revenue sharing - The league does not have revenue sharing
* Luxury Tax - The league sets a "Soft Cap" as a % of the league average payroll, and a "Tax above Soft Cap" as a %. On the first day of the offseason, OOTP totals the payroll expenses of all teams in the league and averages them. It multiplies this number by the Soft Cap % to determine a cap figure. Any team that spent over this cap pays the "Tax above Soft Cap" into a revenue sharing pool. This pool is split equally between the bottom spending teams.
* Set Percentage of Income - On the first day of the offseason, all teams pay a set % of their income into a pool of money. That pool of money is then divided equally between all teams in the league. (When this is selected, an additional field will become available to allow you to set the desired percentage.)


Soft Cap (% of average payroll) Only used with Revenue Sharing (Luxury Tax), see explanation above.
Tax above Soft Cap (%) Only used with Revenue Sharing (Luxury Tax), see explanation above.

If you release Cano right now (prior to the FA declare date), the $14 million will be charged against 2010.

[strewth78]

thanks for spending the time to clear it up for me.
shame about no salary floor option....would be fine addition (to the game and the real-thing!)