Worst Expansion Draft Ever

[thm000]

8 years into my league Arizona and Tampa Bay joined the League,

Arizona Diamondbacks expansion draft

Payroll Budget 23,380,288
Current Payroll 68,376,288
Expected Revenue -45 million

30 Major League ready pitchers for 10 slots
9 Starting Pitchers earning more than 1 million dollars (for those weeks when you have to go 9 deep)
9 relief pitchers earning more than 1 million dollars

Starting Lineup 19 million total budget
Pitching Staff 14 million
20 players in Minor Leagues earning 500,000 or more
10 players scouted at 7.5 or worse earning 9 million dollars (will almost never start in majors)

The same draft Tampa Bay spent 28 million from a 9.6 million dollar budget and spent 5.3 million on its first expansion pick expect -18 million in revenue

Tampa Bay has 1 Starting Major League Pitcher. 9 capable major league relief pitchers, and 22 major league quality position players

Tampa Bay has 3 Starting Pitchers who do not belong in Rookie Ball

Rotation
Dave Eiland Age 31 89/90
Rodrigo Lopez Age 21 74/88
Ben Ford Age 22 73/86
Dan Kung Age 20 49/89
Carl Jackson Age 18 50/93

[CatKnight]

Might want to arrange (force) a trade between them to even out their rosters.

[thm000]

I already had to fix the Marlins and the Rockies manually. The problem with this draft is how to get rid of 45 million worth of players who have poor trade value. Mant of these pitchers are overall 80-82 with health of 50-65 which most teams shun. The other problem is that my team currently is the best run financially and I will make 13 million profit this year. With every team in the league added together I don't have 45 million available to cover these salaries to fix one team.

I wouldn't mind modding an expansion draft if there was a way to do it.

[thm000]

Ok I found a simple fix that works. I traded every player who made more than 1/10th of the team's budget for prospects from a large market team. So if the expansion draft put a filter on it to not draft anyone more than 1/10th of the budget of the team drafting you would see a better draft instead of the computer ruining the simulation.