Payroll Budget and Broadcast type?

[HarmonKillebrew]

Can anyone explain what the connection is (in any given year in this game)between a team's "Payroll Budget" and the type of Broadcast that you use? :confused:

(Aside: I should point out, I play with the option for all market sizes, teams being equalized. So market size, while somewhat different to start, isn't quite as big of a problem for small market teams to start the game.)

Having started out with a team that uses local blackout for broadcast type, my team has around 66 million in Payroll Budget listed, but as soon as I switch it to either pay-TV or Local broadcast, the payroll budget drops by 10 million. :eek: Thus making my 7ish million projected profit into a 3 million loss for the year. :mad:
This happens no matter how many times I load the game, etc. and I've searched the boards and never found a good explanation as to what the connection is between a team's "payroll budget" is and what the broadcast type does to it.
Obviously, there should be a connection to local broadcast type and attendance, but how does it so directly relate to a team's pre-budgeted payroll?

Also... will the payroll budget ever go up if I put it on local broadcast and leave it there? Or am I stuck with the 2nd lowest payroll budget in the league for the next 20 years and having to sell players to make ends meet on one of the lowest payrolls in the league, every year?

For that matter: What factors determine what a team's payroll budget is?
And what factors determine if it rises or falls?

[JayC]

Check out this post:
http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showpost.php?p=555746&postcount=3

Basically what's happening is that you're starting out with "local blackout," so the only way your fan base can see your games is to buy a ticket. When you change to a broadcast type that makes your games available on TV, you're expected to see fewer tickets. Some people will stay home and tune in.

Payroll budget is just expected income minus expected expenses. Fewer ticket sales means lower income, but expenses don't change. So... less money left for payroll.

But these projections often don't pan out. You might end up drawing more people than expected. You might help make this happen by lowering ticket prices, for example. Or by winning a lot of games. And, since you've expanded your overall visibility by making your games "viewable" by more people, your fan support will likely increase in the long run.

[Alloutwar]

JayC has it right - the Payroll Budget is a frustrating feature. Change your ticket prices, then view your Payroll Budget. It changes just based on the new ticket price. So it often incorrectly forecasts your actual earnings.

For instance, my Payroll Budget starts over every year around $61M. But by the time I have gotten a few months into the season, in first place with some all-stars, it's up over $100M. Funny how it doesn't seem to learn, from last season...

[HarmonKillebrew]

Thanks for the responses.
Yeah, I see it going up fast as my team slowly crawls up the divisonal standings and is in 2nd place now.

Shades of the original baseball mogul game and the diminishing income bug that were in that game were tugging at me. LOL
Way back then, as I recall, the team's income would disappear and you had to sell your players to have income after about 15 or so years. About 5 years later and the pitchers Arm Strength would disappear (as I recall) and the highest arm strengths were a D, and all steadily decreasing... and about 5 years later and the same thing was happening to the power hitters, and a few years later it was something else.
I never got to the point of seeing the pictures of the animals or robots playing in the future teams, but I recall that they were suppose to be there.