Team budget

Post by **batdad** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:40 pm

Shadd--IF you recall correctly, rebuilding the Loafs was easy. Maybe not with our new challenge rules quite so easy. But it was simple for most with the old ones. IN fact if I recall right...we changed the challenge rules because the Loafs were so darn easy to rebuild from rubbish to super team.

Bah..you dealt Sundin? One of the best players in the freaking game. Only Laff I would ever deal for when using another team. Even when he has 5 speed he is one of the top scorers in the whole EHM game. Kept McCabe? Dump him and fast for nothing. Stajan, Steen, Wellwood are all useless. The next best Laff after Sundin was Ponikarovsky.

Anyway, one of the warnings SI gave about increasing the cap is there is no inflation in the game. Players negotiate for deals assumingthe cap is at the level set by EHM in the game. Editing the cap does not increase the way players negotiate salaries. Since they are not inflating what they ask for...the cap increase can make things much easier for a human GM. That being said, people wanted a roster update...so we gave them one. To accomodate the new contracts..the cap had to be increased or mayhem would have occured when you start up the game. So it is kind of a bit of this, bit of that.

jdh79 · Post by **jdh79** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:55 pm

I didn't deal Sundin; I just didn't resign him when his contract was up after year one. He wanted 4 M to resign, but because I had landed Jokinen I figured it wasn't worth it as a 2nd line center. In retrospect, I have only 300,000 less to Bobby Holik a week into free agency, so it was a bad idea.

The no inflation thing is kind of what I expected. I think it really kind of breaks the financial structure of the game, because it just lets rich teams stack too much talent and the poorer teams can't do that. Plus, it messes the financials up the first 5 or so years, because all the massive contracts like Briere, etc are there but the revenue structure doesn't inflate to compensate.

One suggestion that might work for a future update (I know it would be an insane amount of work) would be to take the total salary cap hit for the team with the highest league payroll, and then project tat as a percentage of the 44 M default database cap. IE, if the highest cap hit is 60 million, that's 73.3% of the 44 M cap. Then, put everyone in at their actual contract values multiplied by 73.3% to get the relative cost of the contracts without breaking the rest of the financial/inflation structure. It would probably only have to be done for guys with salaries of say 2M ore more.

jdh79 · Post by **jdh79** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:45 am

So I picked back up the Thrashers save game where they were demanding the Cup off a 35 M budget they refused to increase. This forced me to trade off Holik's salary and the best I could afford to sign to replace him was Marco Sturm for 2.6 M/year. I wound up about 1 M over the total budget. I wound up winning the President's Trophy, with Lehtonen having a breakout season and Sturm putting up 110 pts centering Hossa/Kovalchuk. In the playoffs, I beat out the Sens and Sabres before losing in 6 in the conference final to the Rangers primarily because Lundqvist was just unbeatable.

The board kept reducing it's opinion of me during the month of June from extremely pleased, to pleased, to generally satisfied, etc. However, the playoff run plus improved attendance from the top notch team performance led to a 10 M dividend, and my budget got increased to 43.9 M. And the same board that was demanding the Cup last year now only expects me to improve the roster. Maybe they are bi polar or something.

Anyway, the budget increase is especially sweet because the best UFA center available is Marleau, so it gave me just enough room to sign him for 6.1 M/year. Let's see if he is capable of handling centering Kovalchuk and Hossa. That brings me right to the cap and budget, but that probably will decrease once September hits. So, I can still keep Sturm to center the 2nd line and give Little 1 year in the AHL before he gets permanent duties.

Post by **philou21** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:59 pm

I play the thrashers and i'm in my second season in January. The first season gone well i clinched the president trophy and make the first round of the playoff before losing in the second round. Now in the 07-08 season the attendance are high and i make good dividence. I ask for a increase budget ( actually the budget is 39.6 mil ) and the told me they would raise my budget but they didn't do it.....Is the budget will raise at the end of the season or i should re-ask for the increase budget???

matt44 · Post by **matt44** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:07 pm

Whenever I have a good playoff run with the Coyotes the budget increases from around £27m to £30m so playoffs must have something do to with it.

You have to be very careful going over the budget in the first few season or you'll start haemorraghing(sp?) cash and be in trouble which i'd imagine will lead to the budget being slashed even further.

Post by **philou21** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:12 pm

Ok y budget for the team is 39 600 000 millions and ma salary is 40 900 000 millions, so it's just 1 million over so maybe it's not enough to get my budget increase? I'll see when the season an the playoff finish. But in 08-09 i've got bigger contract who going to start so maybe it would help.

marecone · Post by **marecone** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:35 am

My teamhad a salary budget of 730,000. I have won the league with salaries just above the cap. Maybe 20,000 over. Team was making money as my fans are hardcore. My salaries budget for next season droped to 640,000! Did this happen because I went over the limit? Would make sense to increese my budget and not to decreese it.

Thanks in advance