Best Financial Set Up

Klew1986 · 07-04-2018, 09:28 PM

I am woking on setting up a fictional league that will start with 16 teams and am having trouble deciding on a good financial setup. I don't want it to be too crazy (like todays financials), but I don't want it to be too low.

pgjocki · 07-04-2018, 10:30 PM

I like starting with 1978 financials and having a slow gradual increase.

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NoOne · 07-05-2018, 03:28 AM

i think a hard cap helps set the market price(s) too. even if it is slightly beyond what any team can reach. could be wrong, but it seems they stick to % of hard cap as max salary. when i switched to this a year or 2 ago, all other things remaining the same it seemed to at least rein in max contracts a bit. i don't think they will stray far from ~15% of cap for max contract in league, or even without cap if you control revenue to the same range.

you may need to do a little investigation into local media contracts and expected gate revenue for poor/avg/good fan interest. obviously the media portion is relative to market size too.

you can use baselines to know non-player expenses and set league average revenue roughly in the middle of what you want for average payroll.

don't be afraid to shift the contract values where it "works" for what you want... maybe you end up upping the money, but only use markets 1-5 etc.

market sizes can change over time, and a slight chance they have a general pull toward a normal distribution curve -- a few rich, a few poor, fatter in the middle.

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NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	i think a hard cap helps set the market price(s) too. even if it is slightly beyond what any team can reach. could be wrong, but it seems they stick to % of hard cap as max salary. when i switched to this a year or 2 ago, all other things remaining the same it seemed to at least rein in max contracts a bit. i don't think they will stray far from ~15% of cap for max contract in league, or even without cap if you control revenue to the same range. you may need to do a little investigation into local media contracts and expected gate revenue for poor/avg/good fan interest. obviously the media portion is relative to market size too. you can use baselines to know non-player expenses and set league average revenue roughly in the middle of what you want for average payroll. don't be afraid to shift the contract values where it "works" for what you want... maybe you end up upping the money, but only use markets 1-5 etc. market sizes can change over time, and a slight chance they have a general pull toward a normal distribution curve -- a few rich, a few poor, fatter in the middle. Last edited by NoOne; 07-05-2018 at 03:33 AM.