Too many teams in the negative

[ASchatz]

OK, I've got a question. What is the penalty for being in negative cash? So far, I haven't found any. Teams go years with negative profit, negative cash, winning games with no penalty. Please help explain what is the negative to spending as much as possible.

Aaron

[Particleman]

The only penalty I can see is losing in the future, but by that time, the person who has loaded up his team has already left a lot of the times, in public leagues. As for computer teams doing it, I agree that computers need to take better care of their budget.

[jasinjoint]

i would like to understand the economic side as well i play with milwaukee and if you asked me on a difficulty scale milwaukee,minnesota,and detroit would be the hardest teams to play **** triple aaa,negative cash flow and garbage players with way to high of salary points that you cant dump make it very diffucult from my stand point to play with other than the top 10 teams

[AHSFL]

Everyone whines about how hard it is to run a small market team but I've done it, I even run large market teams like small market teams. Most of the time you can find a team that will take bad contracts if you offer the team that contract for nothing. Small market teams have to have a very through blue print that I've followed in almost all versions of the game. Spend money on the farm and scouting, make sure to get your young guys plenty of time in the minors whatever it takes (yes the short term is bad, but you might even luck out with a cheap retread player), and always try and stay a year ahead of the contracts a.k.a. lock up guys cheaply (under 10 as much as possible) and if you can't luck out with things like that, trade the talent for more younger guys, eventually you can work it out.

[ASchatz]

OK, that's not the point of this thread. I'm not asking how to play with a small-market team. I am saying that in my Fast Sim league, the computer-run teams (Baltimore, Montreal, primarily) will take nearly any trade. Montreal is hundreds of credits in debt and wins every year with no penalty. That is a problem. What is supposed to be the penalty for being in the negative, for having salaries too high for your income, and why is that penalty not working?

[James Grove]

Clay is spending this afternoon tweaking the computer trade AI.

I can't guarantee he will fix it today, but have no fear - we are working on improvements. Particularly as regards computers going over their budgets.

Thanks for your feedback,
James Grove