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I just did the math for my league - and having everyone put in 20% of their revenue and split that pool up among all the teams seems to be the best solution - any teams with a negative balance get pulled out of the gutter ever so slightly (instead of just being brought back to $0 using the old Cash Max method), and teams with very large payrolls/revenues get cut down to size a bit, while still maintaining a decent amount of cash for next year. This is nice, because with the old system, about two-thirds of the league came into the following year with the exact amount of the cash max as their starting balance, since so many teams had over that amount.
Using the luxury tax method didn't yield as good results. Assuming that money from the luxury tax pool only gets paid to the bottom spending half of the league, some teams that were in the red spent too much to qualify for the luxury tax benefit, or the benefit wasn't enough to get them out of the red. It hurt the big spenders more, but it didn't help the struggling teams as much, unless my assumptions about how OOTP allocates money from the luxury tax aren't correct.
One other question though - I've got OOTP setup to automatically import adjusted financial settings after each year, so it always imports a slightly higher cash max. Problem is, I think I want to get rid of the cash max altogether and set it to 0. If I set the cash max to $0 now, is OOTP just going to overwrite it when it imports the financial settings? I want to keep that enabled so salaries, ticket prices, etc. automatically change from year to year, but I'd like to keep control over cash max. I'm hoping I don't have to edit the financials.txt file to make the "cash max" column all zeroes in order to keep that from happening.
At some point I will back up my league and try all these different scenarios to see exactly what happens.
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