Financial ERA settings

[Giants44]

To me the greatest part of OOTP is the flexibility. I would like to see some flexibility added to the financial situation.

For example. There could be an area to set either the era or totals of the financials so that in the early 1900’s – the top player salary would be 25k and in 2087 it could be 65mil. (or something to that effect)

Here is how I would do it:

A financial totals similar to the statistical totals on the setup screen with these options:

Average ticket price – this would basically be what fans are willing to spend. For example in 1900 it probably cost a quarter to get into a game and today I believe the average is around 15 bucks. This setting of course affects everything. If the average is 3 bucks and you are charging ten, then attendance would be way down, charge 1 and they are lining up to get inside. Your basic Adam Smith supply and demand curve.

Average TV and radio contracts – obviously they Yankees didn’t make 50 million from TV in 1910 and they will probably bring in 100 million by 2020.

Minimum salary – clear enough
Average salary – again self explanatory
Top salary – top end that a player will demand.

For those who don’t care for great detail there could be some default eras such as pre – FA, early FA, wide FA, etc. When choosing one of these eras all the numbers are automaitcally set to a preset number coresponding to the era.

Finally (and this may be an OOTP6 instead of 5 thing) but a setting for dynamic or static. When set at static these numbers only change when you change them. When set as dynamic, they automatically increase slightly every year to allow for a natural progression (should actually be pretty easy to do if you simply take the numbers from say 1900 and compare them to 2000 and divide the deference by 100 you should be able to calculate the average yearly increase)