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I'm going to spend some time pouring over the data because it'll help me understand things better. But one thing to note so far is that over the ten season span I simulated (2008-2017) only four teams failed to make playoffs over that time (Toronto, Minnesota, St. Louis and Seattle) and of those teams, only Seattle came into the first season when I put things together with actual financial problems (they were about $12 million in the hole cashwise) but that got wiped out because for the first two years I screwed up and OOTP got rid of everyone's cash and so I had to put it back in for Year 3. (Didn't have an appreciable effect and so I opted not to start over..)
But anyway...the point is, there is some measure of parity of that many teams -- all of whom remained in the same cities and with no human intervention -- were able to find some measure of success over that time.
Also, 14 different teams made the World Series over the span and there were only two repeat champions (Texas and Colorado) and the AL was still dominated by the Yankees and Red Sox (though neither won a title in the span, but five pennants among them, Texas won two), the National League only had one repeat pennant winner during the span (Philadelphia) and a host of small market teams made appearances.
What's great about this revelation is that money still stays where it "ought to" with the big market teams dominating in the total revenue/budget categories, but it doesn't assure them ridiculous amounts of success that the other teams can't at least participate, yet they still have an advantage and that's all I wanted...was for them to have the advantage that we all know they have in real life.
I'm off to do some plotting, but I wanted to share that information for those who care.
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