Got a note from the "owner" saying:

"You have been informed by the team owner that the budget for next season.
You will have $55,795,065 available for total player and staff expenses."

Huh? That seems odd. Now my financials show as...

Player payroll: 80,330, 667
Current Budget: 55,795,065
Proj. Budget room: -24,535,602

Then on the financials page says: "Your financial situation is not adequate. You have no money left for player or staff signings!"

Just wondering what happened here. I made a profit last season (though it looks like I lost 145K because with the surplus I cut D.Mayon and his remaining 2 years on a cheap deal.) I know it can be fixed manually, but still seems odd. Maybe it's because the Media Contract figure is currently set at only 5,000,000 vs. 35,000,000. Now why the media contract lost 30,000,000 I don't know.

Hope ootp9 fixes this financial mess.

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Vienna Buzz

Yeah, something really odd is going on here, because I got a very similar message.

New York has been profitable for years, maintaining around a $90mil budget (which can't even be spent), and all the sudden, my budget this season dropped from $90mil to $61mil.

FYI, the same thing also happened to New Glarus's budget (almost a $30mil decrease).  So I think something is wrong/broken.  Maybe we can fix it once we move over to OOTP9.  I'm also not sure what bearing it has on anything.  For sure though, without this being fixed, no one can sign free agents or staff.  I'm not even sure about extensions or player options.  I have two players that I need to exercise options for, so hopefully this problem doesn't affect that.

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Caelon
GM New York Empire

Oh so sorry over budget.  No new players for you!!   I'll rule the WORLD!  Or maybe just the BBL.

 

Now for reality, I hope you're right.  This version has been a pita.

Zayx

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Chessie Ironhorse

seems to me that it's based on the media revenue (or lack therof).  Seems like everyone's been bumped down to 5Mil.  Now i'm concerned because no one will be able to do last minute contract extensions.  I've got a guy who wants 800k that i'd really like to sign, and i'm nearly 5M under the cap, but this over budget thing is making the game think i can't sign anyone...

any way to get that straightened out before we advance to let the FA's go?

Tempus

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South Beach Sunburn GM

I've got the game converted, and went through and double checked the settings, as well as the market size and fan interest.

I fixed the media contract, and added another 30 mil to everyone's budget, which gets them back to what they should have been with the $35m contract.

That took care of some folks, but extensions still may be hard to come by until arbitration hearings come around, which is soon.

The extensions thing is getting folks with a high payroll because it's estimating what the arbitration numbers will look like.

So here's the conundrum: we advance to arb hearings and get that out of the equation (or at least solidified), but then that only leaves 3 days till players go FA, so not a ton of time for negotiations. Or, we stay put to allow more negotiation time, but don't clear up the arb issue.

I think given how much time folks have had for extensions, I'm going to go ahead and fast forward to arb day so folks know what they have to do with their payrolls. I know St. Louis is already over as of right now, so they and others will have to take steps to trim salary.

I'll also work on getting the scouts in place, and adding the necessary money to make up for that. I'll try to get a comprehensive league file up tonight.

ok, I've added scouts in (haven't reset ratings to equal for everyone), but there was a 2m scouting budget added to everyone's numbers. I adjusted budget upwards by 2m, and added that 2m to the merch revenue from last season. (just adding it to merch revenue doesn't adjust budgets, since the owner had already calculated it)

On to adjusting scouts. By the way, editing financials is easier in OOTP9 already.

A couple more posts that provide some explanation for financials:

Projected numbers on Front Office page

Budget

so... good news, bad news, and wtf news :

good - I checked in game and with arbitration done, i've got plenty of room to sign extensions before we move on to next season.

bad - the guy i want to sign is no longer asking for 800k.  he's asking for 2.2M.

wtf - ALL of my potential FA's are asking for the exact same contract.  Was scratching my head a bit on that one.

Tempus

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South Beach Sunburn GM

Hmm. I see that Behn and Vidal are asking for the same thing, which is a bit odd I suppose. Who else is asking for that?

fwiw, I checked a couple other teams and that's not the case.

Also, I verified the typical salary settings to make sure they're kosher.

I think this has come up before, where OOTP2007+ tends to have players ask for a LOT...more than you'd expect, and depending on when you offer them extensions, they may ask for more or less.

Just offer what you think they're worth, but keep in mind that we only have a few days till players go FA, so there may not be much time left for negotiations.

FYI, thread on cash and extensions. We play with owner controls budget as off, so if you want to sign extensions and you have plenty of cash, but the game won't let you, send me an email and I'll do it in commish mode.

Thread

ok, so i didn't check anyone else.. just thought it was bizarre that thos two were asking for the exact same amount.  they certainly weren't before.  anyway, just coincidence i guess.

 

and i did send in a file with offers.

Tempus

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South Beach Sunburn GM