Post by Chi-Town Sox on Oct 17, 2010 19:37:34 GMT -5
I realize this might not be a popular arguement/idea, but I'm going to throw it out there anyway.
I've been here for almost a full season now, but from what I've heard re-learning about the league before I joined from Scott, and from my 1 off season experience, it would seem that FA at the end of the year never really has players that can make a huge impact on teams. For example, this past off season there was 2 players that received a contract of 3 million or more (Wayne Garret and Ruppert Jones). Essentially what that means is the talent pool in FA at the end of the year is not real high and doesn't help much with owner activity/interest
I find the problem comes with the amount of cash allowed for teams (150 M). Having cash this high has enabled teams to hord enough cash that it doesn't matter what their payroll is. This has many problems and complications that could be exploited.
Having an extremely high payroll (above payroll budget) obviously means you are going to lose cash. But if a team is up there at the 150 M limit, this isnt much punishment to deter from these teams that hord a ton of high paid talent. More over, having that high payroll will end up raising your payroll budget at a greater pace. If a team has enough cash to withstand a few seasons of 30 Mil + loss, they could raise their payroll budget to fit an extremely high payroll, and in turn make a team turn into a dynasty that is impossible to beat. (I.E MLB Yankees...and everyone HATES how the Yankees can buy a couple countries with their payroll...)
Currently in TMBL, 8 teams are expected to lose more than 10 million due to their high payrolls. This includes 1 team that is expected to lose up to 30 million dollars. 12 teams in total are expected to lose money. Yet none of these teams are in any kind of danger of going bankrupt.
Im not condoning the fact that teams have high payrolls trying to compete, i think its a legimate strategy to win for 1-2 seasons. but if there are no repercussions to having this strategy (I.E going bankrupt), some teams could turn into dynasties that no one will ever be able to compete against.
Im not certain what all would go into fixing this since i dont know how the innards of mogul baseball work. (whether you could control how much a payroll budget goes up or not?) However, I think there is an external way to deal with this problem..I think its time to lower the Cash cap from 150 million to 100 million (or even 80 million?)
The effects would be that teams that take the hording high paid player approach would only be able to compete for a few seasons until they have to start unloading payroll. This would keep budgets down. Also, the off season would become much more interesting. With these high paid players needing to be released, there would actually be players in FA worth bidding on. It would give teams that may be middle of the pack to low end of the scale the opportunity to gain some talent and compete.
Also it could make owners more active which seems to be somewhat a problem in this league. They would actually have to manage a budget and if you have these higher paid players, you might have to trade them away (increasing trades) or let them go (increasing off season activity/interest)
what are your thoughts on this subject? Is there a problem? or do you think teams that are currently adopting this strategy will end up not resigning straight studs? Do you think reducing cash would help? or is there another solution that is more acceptable?
I've been here for almost a full season now, but from what I've heard re-learning about the league before I joined from Scott, and from my 1 off season experience, it would seem that FA at the end of the year never really has players that can make a huge impact on teams. For example, this past off season there was 2 players that received a contract of 3 million or more (Wayne Garret and Ruppert Jones). Essentially what that means is the talent pool in FA at the end of the year is not real high and doesn't help much with owner activity/interest
I find the problem comes with the amount of cash allowed for teams (150 M). Having cash this high has enabled teams to hord enough cash that it doesn't matter what their payroll is. This has many problems and complications that could be exploited.
Having an extremely high payroll (above payroll budget) obviously means you are going to lose cash. But if a team is up there at the 150 M limit, this isnt much punishment to deter from these teams that hord a ton of high paid talent. More over, having that high payroll will end up raising your payroll budget at a greater pace. If a team has enough cash to withstand a few seasons of 30 Mil + loss, they could raise their payroll budget to fit an extremely high payroll, and in turn make a team turn into a dynasty that is impossible to beat. (I.E MLB Yankees...and everyone HATES how the Yankees can buy a couple countries with their payroll...)
Currently in TMBL, 8 teams are expected to lose more than 10 million due to their high payrolls. This includes 1 team that is expected to lose up to 30 million dollars. 12 teams in total are expected to lose money. Yet none of these teams are in any kind of danger of going bankrupt.
Im not condoning the fact that teams have high payrolls trying to compete, i think its a legimate strategy to win for 1-2 seasons. but if there are no repercussions to having this strategy (I.E going bankrupt), some teams could turn into dynasties that no one will ever be able to compete against.
Im not certain what all would go into fixing this since i dont know how the innards of mogul baseball work. (whether you could control how much a payroll budget goes up or not?) However, I think there is an external way to deal with this problem..I think its time to lower the Cash cap from 150 million to 100 million (or even 80 million?)
The effects would be that teams that take the hording high paid player approach would only be able to compete for a few seasons until they have to start unloading payroll. This would keep budgets down. Also, the off season would become much more interesting. With these high paid players needing to be released, there would actually be players in FA worth bidding on. It would give teams that may be middle of the pack to low end of the scale the opportunity to gain some talent and compete.
Also it could make owners more active which seems to be somewhat a problem in this league. They would actually have to manage a budget and if you have these higher paid players, you might have to trade them away (increasing trades) or let them go (increasing off season activity/interest)
what are your thoughts on this subject? Is there a problem? or do you think teams that are currently adopting this strategy will end up not resigning straight studs? Do you think reducing cash would help? or is there another solution that is more acceptable?