Adjusting Financial Rules ?

[RoteLaterne]

To take my next step towards a more complex game I will have Financial Rules now.

What are reasonable numbers to start working with?

I use the default settings and
put the salary cap to $ 80,000,000 (fully available to all)
and the media contracts to $ 20,000,000 (for every team)

Are these numbers far away from realistic ones?
What else are realistic adjustments?

Here is another important question for me:

How can I play with a hard cap?
Le't say $ 80,000,000 and not one single dollar more!
Which settings do I need for this?

Pleas help me. Many thanks for your quick help.

[Kelric]

I might raise the salary cap to $100M, I think.

[RoteLaterne]

Originally Posted by Kelric

I might raise the salary cap to $100M, I think.

Thx. Might be more realistic.
Any ideas on how to play with that hard cap?

Has that s.th. to do with the option Revenue Sharing?

[RoteLaterne]

Wow, the Financial System is very hard to understand for a newbie like me.

1) Please can s.o. explain the difference between a Type A and Type B Free Agent?

2) Which date during the course of the off-season is the day when players become free agents and their contracts won't count any longer on your payroll? Must be sometime in mid November, I guess.

3) Moreover I don't understand why teams, which are far below the salary cap, don't sign good free agents? They have the money to spend but they don't use that "free cap".

I set all media contracts, fan interestes, market sizes and modifiers for all teams to the same level, salary cap is 85,000,000 but some only have 40,000,000 with some really good FA availyble.

[bgeno]

Originally Posted by RoteLaterne

Wow, the Financial System is very hard to understand for a newbie like me.


3) Moreover I don't understand why teams, which are far below the salary cap, don't sign good free agents? They have the money to spend but they don't use that "free cap".

I set all media contracts, fan interestes, market sizes and modifiers for all teams to the same level, salary cap is 85,000,000 but some only have 40,000,000 with some really good FA availyble.

I'm still a newb as well, but...

There is something in the financials that lets you turn off whether or not the team owner decides how much money you can spend. If you change it so that all money is available to the GM's, it MIGHT help.

[RoteLaterne]

Originally Posted by bgeno

I'm still a newb as well, but...

There is something in the financials that lets you turn off whether or not the team owner decides how much money you can spend. If you change it so that all money is available to the GM's, it MIGHT help.

I know that option.

One is "let the owner decide"
The other "full budget".

I know these are not the exact descriptions but the meaning should be clear here. I play with the second one "full budget", but the problem is still there.