Yeah, I noticed the same thing. That it gave broke teams money and I specifically did not want that to happen. But that's a flaw in the stupid game mechanics, because even when you turn off revenue sharing, it still tries to share out cash. Which is irritating. But I digress.
I changed the entire formula in the sheet I'm using now. What I did basically, was tweak the formula so that local media revenue was calculated differently. For cash, I simply replaced the national media field and issue each team the same amount of cash to start. Then with the tweaked local media formula, it makes things better because then you have your stark contrasts and teams won't be able to share revenue unless you specifically want that.
I guess what I'll do is, release the new file and you all can just use that one or the old one if folks prefer that formula to the new one.
It's attached here. The changes are listed below:
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-Eliminated the National Media category and replaced it with a new cash calculation mechanism. It's a flat rate calculation that you should apply to all teams.
-Reformulated the local media revenue category. It is now more reliant on the team's DMA and market size than before, to ensure that big market teams have a more natural advantage.
-Recalculated media revenue and budget categories based on previous changes.
-Expanded sheet for 32 team league.
-Reformulated luxury tax and revenue sharing formulas. Teams are now assesses the luxury tax at the rate in which they are over the set rate. For instance, if a team is $50 million over the tax, they will pay $50 million in luxury tax according to the formula.
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This is the same one I was using for my current league, so it'll be a bit different than the other one and isn't ready for a straight MLB league right now, because I set the numbers for 2020 and not for present in this particular one. It's why I'm leaving the other one up.
And one other anomaly on this particular sheet is that Boston's market size is set to include the entire regional population of New England, rather than just the Boston MSA. This is a weird thing, but because of the new local media revenue setup, I wanted to reflect that team's emergence as a dominant market franchise via their regional market share and that was the only way I could tweak it to reflect that. Feel free to change that or anything else however you want obviously.