Announcing Changes/Adjustments to Budgets - OOTP

[brwnbear]

Good day gentleman and nick

It is my pleasure to stand before you as co-commish for the first time and bring forth changes to our revenue model. I am making this decision independent of Trendon as he will be negatively affected by its affect. I believe the change will improve competition and restore fiscal responsibility.

Background:

When we made the change to OOTP12, there where several "improvements" in the model that we where not aware of. One such change was the addition of "Local Media Revenue." This was an change from OOTP 10 where it only had a National Media Revenue. In 10, we locked the Media Revenue at $25M per team. The purpose was to avoid having a situation where teams who are designated as huge markets, dont have an advantage over teams designated as tiny markets. Remember, the game does not accurately reflect the location of your team, as teams like Chicago and Toronto are designated small markets status while Sheltown and Port Orange is desiganted as a large market. Essentially, we dont want to have a NY Yankee team that can have a budget of $200,000,000 simply because they exist in the right city while others operate like the Royals, with no hope of retaining any of their best players.

Why is the media budget important, it is used, along with other sources of revenue to set your budget. A team with more revenue from last year, will have a higher budget. So if you have higher media revenue than everyone else, and everything else is equal (gate, merchandising, playoff) then you will have a higher budget for next year than every other team.

Current Problem:

When we upgraded to OOTP12, Trendon kept the media revenue at $25M. However, the game added additional revenue for "local media revenue." The bigger the market size the bigger the local media revenue. The game only displays the total Media Revenue on our budget screens (combination of local and national). Lets look at how this effects things.

Team - Media Revenue
NY - $72,166,666
Albany - $41,166,666

Team - Budget
NY - $202,830,000
Albany - $134,840,000

Albany is a playoff team like NY, but because NY is a bigger market it will get "rewarded." The game uses a multiple factor for increasing media revenue, meaning that the divide between NY and Albany will only incraese until Albany becomes the pirates of the NDL.

The adjustments:

What I have decided to do is adjust everyones Total media revenue at $40,000,000. I have also decided to adjust the budget by the amount ABOVE $40,000,000 by decreasing your budget. What this means is that most of you will have your budgets for this year decrease and 2 will see and increase. If I dont adjust the budgets, the game will never adjust for the "extra" incentive some teams got because OOTP12 almost always increases your budget on an annual basis. As a result, some of you will see your projected room decrease. Some of you will go into the red.

In order to even things out, I have decided that you will be able to "Drop" any free agent signing that you made this offseason. It does not apply to trades or extentions. You will only be able to drop a FA signing if you now find yourself in RED and you where not there before (sorry Seattle). The reason is that you should not have had the $ to sign said free agents in the first place. However, I am not going to force you to drop them. You may keep them if you like, just know that it may affect your budget for next year and it WILL affect your ability to scout for this year. It will be your choice. Those players that are dropped will go back in to the FA pool. Draft compensation will NOT be changed. That is part of the decision you will have to make.

Below are the adjustments.

Team Budget adjustment to budget Current Room After Adjustment
Albany -$1,166,666 $6,852,201 $5,685,353
Carolina -$10,166,666 $50,297,500 $40,130,834
Chicago -$4,166,666 $32,122,500 $27,955,834
Condordia -$12,166,666 $40,584,010 $28,417,344
Denver -$12,166,666 -$1,908,000 -$14,074,666
Hartford -$2,166,666 $12,676,510 $10,509,844
Las Vegas -$27,166,666 $35,256,515 $10,509,844
Miami -$17,166,666 $11,240,000 -$5,926,666
New England -$32,166,66 $6,757,955 -$25,408,711
New York -$24,666,666 $195,550 -$24,471,116
NorCal -$11,166,666 $89,107,420 $77,940,754
Philly -$5,166,666 $30,898,760 $25,732,094
Port Orange -$27,166,666 $41,481,100 $14,314,434
Seattle -$3,166,666 -$29,969,300 -$33,135,966
Shelton -$19,666,666 $63,351,850 $43,685,184
Sioux City $10,333,334 - -$4,143,991 $6,189,343
Steel City -$10,166,666 $4,145,540 -$6,021,160
Texas -$12,166,666 $8,933,510 -$3,233,156
Toronto $1,833,334 $23,929,810 $25,763,144
Washington -$3,166,666 $6,332,500 $3,165,834


As you can see Toronto and Sioux will be given increases. NY will have to make a tough decision as will Denver. Seattle was screwed from the beggining. And Steel City, Miami, and Texas will have to decide what they want to do. We will let the CPU figure things out for NY. Remeber, you where not suppose to have the money in the first place so keep that in mind as you get pissed off.

Rational:

I made the decision to go with $40,000,000 because it would keep most teams close to their respective budgets before the game made the adjustments. Remember, it was suppose to be $25M so everyone got massive increases as it is. I didnt make it $45,000,000 or $50,000,000 because there has to be a cutoff at some point and everyone is already complaining about the amount of cash available.

Effect:

The changes will deduct $223,000,000 from our collective budgets, hopefully bringing down the asking price of free agents in the future.

[ajalves]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

[nick]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

He said you can have them lol. Youre gonna pay for it. Think of it like a credit card and if you're in the red at season end your budget will drop, you won't be able to even offer arbitrations and you'll be fucked (see me)

[trendon]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

The only person who stands to lose anyone is me. I signed four people.

Ando
Dickson
Jacobs
Murphy

Ando and Dickson are in the clear; I had that money. Jacobs is questionable. I had plenty of money since Parnaby was grabbed off the waiver wire, but did I have $14m? I don't know. I think I did. Murphy's 2m contract was definitely with money I should not have had.

[trendon]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

He said you can have them lol. Youre gonna pay for it. Think of it like a credit card and if you're in the red at season end your budget will drop, you won't be able to even offer arbitrations and you'll be fucked (see me)

Port Orange is going to make 100m minimum this season; probably 50m in profit. They won't be fucked.

[brwnbear]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

I said you can keep them. Just know that your budget will be in the red and you will pay for it with a decreased amount for scouting and development and you will have to deal with the budget problems next year.

I am giving you the opportunity to drop them if you chose. But its your choice.

[nick]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

He said you can have them lol. Youre gonna pay for it. Think of it like a credit card and if you're in the red at season end your budget will drop, you won't be able to even offer arbitrations and you'll be fucked (see me)

Port Orange is going to make 100m minimum this season; probably 50m in profit. They won't be fucked.

I'm just saying, thats whta would happen if you DONT get outta the red, you'll lose it. I think I went -29 last yr which explains my drastic payroll drop

[trendon]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

I said you can keep them. Just know that your budget will be in the red and you will pay for it with a decreased amount for scouting and development and you will have to deal with the budget problems next year.

I am giving you the opportunity to drop them if you chose. But its your choice.

Hold up. I don't have the game open, but let's not scare people. I spent right to my limit, actually have a payroll that will go UP next year, had $24 million deduction, actually spent more than I technically had, and I am in no way scared of next season. I plan on profiting about 60m.

[kdog36]

I have been able to only update the file and that is it this week so I am not up to date on my sit.

So Texas is -3 mil? which mean I need to drop someone to cover that loss?

jut trying to clear this up for myself.

thanks

[shel311]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

[trendon]

I have been able to only update the file and that is it this week so I am not up to date on my sit.

So Texas is -3 mil? which mean I need to drop someone to cover that loss?

jut trying to clear this up for myself.

thanks

No, you just can't sign anyone else right now. At $3 million, you'll be fine by the end of April.

[nick]

now all we need to is rid ourselves of owners !!! motherfucker wont let me spend all my budget. I'm capped at like 80 million, fuckin charitable my ass

[brwnbear]

people should be allowed to keep guys they signed. Taking them away qwouldnt be fair.

regardless of wether the should have had the money or not, they had it

I said you can keep them. Just know that your budget will be in the red and you will pay for it with a decreased amount for scouting and development and you will have to deal with the budget problems next year.

I am giving you the opportunity to drop them if you chose. But its your choice.

Hold up. I don't have the game open, but let's not scare people. I spent right to my limit, actually have a payroll that will go UP next year, had $24 million deduction, actually spent more than I technically had, and I am in no way scared of next season. I plan on profiting about 60m.

NY budget for this year is based on the total revenue from last year (Gate, Playoff, revenue sharing, Media, Merchendize)

Your budget is $155M, your revenue was $155M (after revenue sharing) from "last year."

Last years revenue included:
Gate = $63M
Playoff = $0
MEDIA = $64.6M
Merch = $32M
Total = $160.8M
Revenue Sharing = ($5M)

Your Media should have been $40M (technically $25M), meaning that your current budget should be closer to $130M (technically $115M)

For this year, you can profit if your Gate, Playoff, Merch increase (revenue sharing improves) and you spend less than what you make. Currently your expenditures are estimated at $155M (payroll, staff, scouting, draft, development). Meaning that you need to incrase those things by $25M to break even.

[brwnbear]

I have been able to only update the file and that is it this week so I am not up to date on my sit.

So Texas is -3 mil? which mean I need to drop someone to cover that loss?

jut trying to clear this up for myself.

thanks

You can keep the guys you signed and drop expenses elsewhere (scouting, development) or drop one of the guys you signed as a FA, or make a trade. Its your choice.

[trendon]

OK, so raise ticket prices. Got it.

[brwnbear]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

Thats not going to fix anything. We are still going to have massive inequalities in budgets and revenue that have nothing to do with our managerial expertice. The problem is only going to get worse if we dont address the budgets.

[ajalves]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

Thats not going to fix anything. We are still going to have massive inequalities in budgets and revenue that have nothing to do with our managerial expertice. The problem is only going to get worse if we dont address the budgets.

there isnt a salary cap. there are always going to be bedget inequalities. the league was made that way on purpose

[trendon]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

Thats not going to fix anything. We are still going to have massive inequalities in budgets and revenue that have nothing to do with our managerial expertice. The problem is only going to get worse if we dont address the budgets.

there isnt a salary cap. there are always going to be bedget inequalities. the league was made that way on purpose

Yeah, we seem to be coming from all sorts of different directions. The biggest issue we corrected were budgets spiraling absolutely out of control and, in turn, free agents asking for 40 million soon. The initial budgets were set via the inaugural draft (teams that drafted talent got big budgets while teams that drafted potential got smaller budgets). Albany is one of the small-market teams, hasn't stopped them from winning twice while New York, New England, Port Orange, Miami, Texas, and Sheltown have one title combined. NorCal is the one example of a medium-sized budget that grew because of success.

[shel311]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

Thats not going to fix anything. We are still going to have massive inequalities in budgets and revenue that have nothing to do with our managerial expertice. The problem is only going to get worse if we dont address the budgets.

I'm not saying just do these things.

I'm saying do these things to allow owners to help offset the fact that we're about to have money we thought was ours taken from us.

[brwnbear]

Also another proposal on top of the salary decrease, or instead of the salary decrease:



Allow anyone to release any guy they signed in FA with no penalty, other than not being able to sign that person back before the season starts.

Thats not going to fix anything. We are still going to have massive inequalities in budgets and revenue that have nothing to do with our managerial expertice. The problem is only going to get worse if we dont address the budgets.

I'm not saying just do these things.

I'm saying do these things to allow owners to help offset the fact that we're about to have money we thought was ours taken from us.

If you read the book I wrote, I specifically say you can release a guy you signed in FA without problems. But I am only allowing guys who got pushed into the red as a result of the change.