In OOTP 2006 there were several financial engine related input boxes where the user was allowed to input any number, but the game disregarded a range of numbers and sometimes defaulted whatever you input to a minimum or max value. The game would still show the text-box as having the number you added, but the financial logic of the game would ignore that number if it was out of it's range.
Example: It allowed you to put an average attendance figure, but if you input anything less than around 20K per game (I forget the exact minimum number) the OOTP finances would treat your input as 20K even if the average attendance text-box displayed 10K.
I'd prefer that all open ended OOTP text-boxes actually accept open ended input, but if the game does not do that then at least I hope the impacted text-boxes will limit user input with some validation logic.
Example: If OOTP defaults all < 20K attendance values to 20K then use the following text-box validation whenever someone inputs a number the game will ignore: "Average attendance must be over 20,000 per game".
Hope that makes sense

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