revenue sharing, salary cap, equalize cities, nothing?

[frestyle29]

lots of debate over this lately, a poll seemed to be a good idea.

[GFunk911]

All of these are good ideas, I think they should all be options. These should be seasons where all the markte are equalized, and there should be revenue sharing and salary cap markets. However, I think the most elegant solutions would be a luxury tax. You could use a sliding scale if you wanted, every 3 points over 300 gets taxed a point, every 2 points over 400, and every point over 550 gets taxed a point (I don't mean that to be cumlative). All the luxury tax money goes into a pool, and is evenly distributed between the 30 teams. This way, it would be like a salary cap, but it only discourages overspending. IF a team wants to have a high payroll, they can, they just suffer the consequences

[muchomaas]

I think a better option than equalizing the cities completely would be creating sim leagues where the fan interest/payroll situation is much more elastic, and more readily responds to changes in team performance. As is, fan loyalty is a hard-won prize, and doesn't get to nearly the same level of help (in small markets) as, say the Yankees, Braves or Red Sox, whose fans seem oblivious to changes in ticket costs or TV coverage.

As a side note, I think TV broadcast could be more reflective of the size of the TV markets themselves, instead of (as it appears) being more related to the size of the fan market.

[Kyuss]

I think they are all good ideas, but I think it should be the users option when he/she joins a leauge. I personally like the the diparity between the cites, makes it more realistic.

[TGG]

Call it a cross post or what ever you want, I tend to speak up allot with this topic.


Now I DO NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF A POINT CAP That just leads to a very boring time after awhile an to much balance sucks.


Here is a cut an paste of one of my posts from before about this idea:

One real idea :

I few of my teams that I play are small market team, Pittsburgh, Montreal. ( In RL I do not believe in doing this, but for here I really must bring it up ) Revenue sharing

I have tried different combinations, to keep "cash" coming in an "fans" in the seats, an both these two teams have had to trade away good talent to make sure that they could make "payroll" for that year an the next. I could quickly lose interest in a game that I can never get ahead in. ( I knew what I was getting into when I pick those two teams to begin with)


Maybe at the end of each year, each team puts a % of thier over all income into a league pot/bank, That way during the next season, if a team is in the red they can burrow money out of this pot ( which would have to be payed back in a set amount of time, an with a interest rate applied to it , kinda like the sim city idea)
This would also help out those other owners who desided to be dopes an rack up -1k or more.

Now in RL this makes for one of the better debates in baseball ( revenue sharing) but here for this game, I can see managers bailing on teams pretty fast because of lack of money, an if something is not done about it ,it will only be a on going problem.

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If something is not done about these teams, when this does open up to the "real" market, all the better teams will be taken right away, Yanks,Redsox, ect........ just do to the the fact that they draw an make so much more money then the other teams. after a player gets his/her small market team into dept after a while they will leave, letting the good market teams pick the computer teams apart for the talent. This will make the leagues very unbalanced an would lead me to want to quit myself after a while.