Broken Bat - Help: Money

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#60684	08/31/2018 6:18:30 am	Jun 25th, 2037
maglor1 Joined: 08/20/2018 Posts: 2 Inactive	Currently, I'm super broke. I've already lost 6 million this year. Is my team too expensive? Am I not making enough money? What's the problem?

#60685	08/31/2018 6:22:46 am	Jun 25th, 2037
Pig_Cola Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 1445 Glendale Marshals III.2	You've got expensive players and your ballpark is kind of big for VI. I think you should be able to change your ballpark right now as you've joined recently.

#60686	08/31/2018 6:28:40 am	Jun 25th, 2037
AssumedPseudonym Joined: 10/26/2016 Posts: 1130 Deerfield Beach Rats V.7	Yep, that looks to be the issue. I’m not sure how much you can do about salary right now due to release restrictions, but if you can modify your stadium, looking at your current attendance trends, taking it down to about 20,000-ish should help a lot.

#60688	08/31/2018 7:25:10 am	Jun 25th, 2037
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2237 New York Lancers V.4	Losing $6M to this point in LLVI is really, really bad. Your ballpark will be costing you money - attendance only reaches certain levels at any League Level (league 6 in your case), so there is no point in having a huge stadium as those empty seats will never get filled and it costs you to pay for them (this is all in the Help link at the top of the page). Your main problem I see is that you have five players each making $2M+ and two more making $3.25M+...those guys are taking up way too much money, and five of them are 31-years old. Your entire team salary should be around what those guys make combined. They're good, but will they help you 1-2-3 seasons from now? So now you have to decide: do I want to try and promote for short-term gain, or do I want to get rid of the old guys, start banking up cash reserves (which you'll need at higher levels), and start over for long-term gain? If you can cut a couple of the older guys and break even and still contend for promotion, that is something else to consider. But you look to have some decent talent in the minors, so I'd look to the long-term. Back in 2030 I promoted with a bunch of old-timers, knowing they were all moving on and I would be demoting again in 2031 (which I did) when I brought in my youngsters. Those kids got valuable playing time in 2031 in what was essentially a lost season and now form the core of my team, a core which has enabled me to promote twice.

#60767	09/07/2018 6:24:13 am	Jul 21st, 2037
zonablazer Joined: 01/18/2016 Posts: 52 Inactive	Money means nearly nothing, though, yeah? Other then not being allowed to go totally broke.....?