Cash Maximum

[nuwildcat]

Has anyone played around with the cash maximum in this year's game? I like the idea of having a larger cash maximum than default, but I worry that it negatively impacts financials going forward.

[Brad K]

Been wondering, what does cash max do?

[NoOne]

it's how much you can keep from previous season.

You can run into a problem with too much cash being carried over. It has to do with the difference between money available to extend a player's contract vs signing a free agent.

Think general consensus is up to 30 million is safe (various forum posts, player types etc...). Not meant as a suggested ceiling. I'm sure you can push that higher, too.

why and ramblings...

i can't recall specific issues, bit too foggy at this point. I remember figuring out why i was seeing the oddities and it was tied to that eventually excessively extra cash available for extensions on some teams - typically the better ones for obvious reasons). think it drove FA costs down? Extending a player was always 2x as expensive as waiting for them to hit free agent market.. even with slightly overpaying to ensure you get them, still a huge cost savings -- had to wait for demand to drop from their initial extension demands that the poor teams could not afford (due to how much money others had, this impacted demand even on poor teams). So, a deep FA market, too... and the AI won't be that sophisticated to plan in same way, so you have a huge advantage... more production per dollar potential in an extremely augmented way. heh, not as foggy as i thought. took me a few minutes, lol.

-- maybe, if you leveled income for all teams (or toward that end of spectrum compared to normal), it would negate majority of issue or require a higher value to cause an issue at the least. But, once a team hits that lottery, albeit more often the larger markets, they typically keep that wealth for a long period of time. It doesn't rotate around quickly, and larger markets may stay there seemingly forever.

*something addressed in recent years? not entirely sure if it is an mlb related distinction anymore. you can see it on your accounting page. just turn on comissioner mode, go add a bunch of onhand cash to any team.. go to front office (or accounting?) page and look at money available for FA vs available for extensions.. it'll be apparent if this is likely* to still cause an issue.