IF we actually get a new player, I think helping them would be nice. Should probably splash Hayvis some cash too, since he didn't understand the tickets and it might have hurt him a bit this year.
I would much rather start all over than give away prospects.
@NML what is your optimal gap between the high and low budgets? 50-60% seems reasonable, but maybe people want equal budgets.
From personal observation I’d suggest $35 as a ticket cap. OU, JD and myself seemed to cap there and it was plenty of money. More than that seems unnecessary. You’d probably be 180-185 ish with a 110-115 floor.
Hard to say, especially with the removal of IFA, which will naturally help control big clubs.
I’d just like to see the ability to succeed at the floor (which you can do over time now, but its almost impossible to be a contender with a small budget) and to struggle at the ceiling (i.e. not have our top budget make the playoffs 23 straight years)
One thing I wish I had tracked is the highest budget to ever not make the playoffs. Maybe you could do some manual research there, but that might be a good judge? On the flip side, the smallest budget to ever win a WS (or even make one).
So with the other stuff, that’s probably like 120/180? Those seem like good numbers
If that's the solution to the problem, I would rather restart.Well, you can choose to be a giant cunt if you want, it would be voluntary to DONATE prospects. I'm glad you're volunteerin to be a villain, we've been in short supply of them lately.
Also, I didn't even say they had to be PROSPECTS, lol, they can be lower case prospects. How many AAAA potential players you want to horde? I just sent like 5 AAAA dudes to Paris and I haven't been paying attention to my minors in YEARS.
I would just edit it if/when a new owner takes over. Give them a couple years of HELICOPTER PAYMENTS if they are under 120 so that they can splash some cash on FA!
I also think us HAVES should voluntarily donate AA and AAA players to new owners, because that's often the worst part of the OTTO RAPE... having a depleted system somehow because OTTO is drafting fucking 30 control idiot SP with the 2nd OVR. I will legit donate like 5 decent prospects to a new owner and if others do the same it'd help them build a system. A ball could be handled with compensatory picks in rounds 2-10 would probably help a new player build their own system as well.
I'm not a huge IFA guy, I just don't see how it helps small budget teams especially when small IFA buys can develop into good players.
That’s like saying FA helps small budget teams because small contracts can be productive players
Sure, they can, but it’s a market driven by who spends the most, which of course means big markets get the best and small markets get what’s left - which, occasionally, contains good players.
Remove IFA and the random pop up players, force prospects through a channel that we can control and give small markets their only chance to get first choice
What does this mean? Market sizes are reset every couple of years. What channel?
Isn't NML just describing the MLB Rule 5 Draft? There are TONS of guys that end up signing Minor League extensions that never hit FA that should.
I am really doubting you understand how the economics in this game with posts like this + fixing media contracts.That’s like saying FA helps small budget teams because small contracts can be productive players
Sure, they can, but it’s a market driven by who spends the most, which of course means big markets get the best and small markets get what’s left - which, occasionally, contains good players.
Remove IFA and the random pop up players, force prospects through a channel that we can control and give small markets their only chance to get first choice
I don't do minor league extensions anymore but getting rid of them (if possible) would be good.Isn't NML just describing the MLB Rule 5 Draft? There are TONS of guys that end up signing Minor League extensions that never hit FA that should.
I am really doubting you understand how the economics in this game with posts like this + fixing media contracts.
If you want to "even" things out-- the idea is to make big markets SPEND money. If you eliminate IFA, there will be MORE money for them to spend on ML FAs.
and I see the part of the script where someone doesn't play for 4-5 seasons, comes back and sees his team sucks and tries to neuter the league.That makes no sense. You don’t want big markets to spend money, you want them to have less money.
Any avenue where money rules is an advantage for teams with more of it. I don’t even see how that’s debatable
I see were in the part of the script where our big money teams backtrack and actually don’t want to give up anything
What the fuck is a minor league extension?Isn't NML just describing the MLB Rule 5 Draft? There are TONS of guys that end up signing Minor League extensions that never hit FA that should.
and I see the part of the script where someone doesn't play for 4-5 seasons, comes back and sees his team sucks and tries to neuter the league.
It's not that hard of a concept but let me spell it out for you: you want big league teams to be lighting money on fire on guys who won't be useful for 5 years vs. spending that money on free agents that will help them now. I have wasted so much on IFAs who suck. I know you haven't played for a long time, but the IFA engine is way less predictable than it was in previous versions of the game.
If you think getting rid of avenues to get players and make decisions/strategy is going to increase immersion, it's not. Now you go from in the off-season teams deciding if they're going to spend in IFA or FA to just FA. How is that good for small budgets?