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As I said earlier taking money from everyone equally does not mean each team is equally effected. Taking money from each team equally (through the salary floor) will have the greatest impact on those making the least money.

The salary floor takes from everyone in your league equally. You have the same earning potential as your competition. What you spend your income on above that is what makes you feel like you will be victimized. A rule that would take money out of the game and lower inflation isn't responsible for poor financial decisions.

You have the same earning potential as your competition.

Not really. More experienced teams with larger arenas can make more money. You yourself said this :

An established player in your league can potentially make around $200k every week

I am not saying I am being victimized. I know that the strategy of trying to build a great team through drafting and training means I will make less income and I am perfectly fine with the way things are.

I do think that if they raise the salary floor , they should count trainers salary towards the salary floor since it encourages training and I think it will help keep users involved in the game. Currently teams, below the salary floor have no financial incentive to train since paying trainer's salary would mean they would make less money. If these teams are tanking, very little manger engagement is needed. They just need to log on every few weeks. This is a very boring strategy and many of these managers, whose interest in the game has likely waned, just end up quitting. If we count trainer salary towards the floor, it now makes good financial sense to train. Training takes more manager engagement and can help keep these managers interested in the game.

I do think that if they raise the salary floor , they should count trainers salary towards the salary floor since it encourages training and I think it will help keep users involved in the game.

If you add staff to the floor, it discourages training as it means less available salary for a competitive teams roster.

If these teams are tanking, very little manger engagement is needed. They just need to log on every few weeks. This is a very boring strategy and many of these managers, whose interest in the game has likely waned, just end up quitting.

This is the issue the salary floor resolves. Managers can easily do this and bank a fortune. They get rewarded for intentionally being uncompetitive. Increasing the floor for higher leagues just pushes teams to deliberately tank to lower divisions to make easier profit.

A minute of your time every few weeks until you have enough money to get motivated again is a real strategy. I've got one in my current league and another who was relegated to another league in the same division. That's 2 teams with 20+ seasons experience each I can point out without even researching.

If we count trainer salary towards the floor, it now makes good financial sense to train. 

It already makes financial sense to train (if you don't spend $140k per week on staff and scouting) with the current inflated market. Now the price of purchacing a decent trainer has doubled over the last couple of seasons because there is far too much income in the game, making it harder for establishing teams to get access.

Just a couple of my thoughts:

my Utopia-team plays in League IV. I don't really want to be competitive just now (or ever). Training is my main focus. Since it's Utopia, we don't have any bots in the league.

Our salary floor is at approximately 50k. I pay around 70k for my players and have tried to stay as close to the salary floor as possible. But since I've been training a couple of players, I was bound to have a higher salary than the salary floor at some point. If I remember correctly, we've got only around 3-4 teams that have higher salaries on their rosters. I make around 90-100k a week (without even trying).

My point is: the salary floor is definitely too low, also in the divs. 3-5. I have accumulated over 2.5 Mio without trying (and not counting the 800k+ I spend for a lvl. 5 coach) or the trainees that I acquired.

I'm not tanking intentionally but I don't really know what else I should spend the money on. My arena is developed pretty well. So I'm hoarding the money in order to be able to buy new coaches, maybe later on some new trainees. Or be able to keep my trainees on the team even if they get expensive later on.

If the salary floor was raised by 30-40k, my strategy would not change. I'd probably buy a decent 20k PG and would be a little bit more competitive even though I'd continue my training.

So I don't see your point, banana, why a raise of the salary floor would be bad in the lower divisions? I've got the feeling that it's just your strategy (or your spending quite a lot of money on your staff) that you want to continue without any new obstacles. But if the salary floor was raised, you'd just get a lvl 4 (or even 5) coach, those are still good enough to develop a franchise player for your team (Superstar+ potentional). And a lvl. 4 doc is not cheap but also not something that should cost 50k salary ...

I guess you'd adjust, your whole league would be more competitive and you could still train your draftees for your team (and maybe even make MORE money than before ...)

If you add staff to the floor, it discourages training as it means less available salary for a competitive teams roster.

Both of the things you're saying here are simply untrue. Adding staff to the floor does not discourage training since teams below the salary floor can save money on expensive staff salaries. Also, you do realize that there is no situation where, if staff were part of the salary floor, teams would be making less than they currently do; so how does this equate to "less available salary for a competitive teams roster."

The salary floor is good because as you say we don't want to reward teams for " intentionally being uncompetitive." But raising it too high (ie making it as high as a competitive playoff team's salary) will mean lower seeded teams make less money than higher seeded teams. If this were the case, it would be tough for teams to ever catch those above them. We don't want to reward tankers, but we don't want to take it to the other extreme where the best teams in a division always make the most money.

Last edited by banana64 at 2/11/2016 6:20:26 PM

You got me there. The frustration of failing to help you see common sense must have got me confused...

The reality of your situation is that you overspend on staff and think raising the salary floor would negatively impact your chance to develop. Rather than look at the fact that you could do things better, you think you need more than everyone before you who got to where they are by doing things the smart way.

You spend more than the floor on staff, so you still wouldn't be catching up as efficiently as you could by playing to your situation. If you did have more money to spend, you would just have more to waste thinking that the most expensive trainer your salary can afford is your best option. All that does is limit your finances.

Increasing the salary floor would (again) affect everyone equally. The result would be decreasing the amount of money teams can accumulate and overspend with less impact when purchasing staff and players. Teams like yourself who ineffectely spend their profit would be forced to learn how to adapt and become more efficient with your income. Keeping lower divisions exempt from an increased floor will only give teams in higher divisions more reason to demote.

You got me there. The frustration of failing to help you see common sense must have got me confused...

Why do you say things like that when you keep repeating this.

Increasing the salary floor would (again) affect everyone equally.

I have explained my reasoning why this is untrue and why teams who make less money would be more affected. I'd appreciate it if you addressed my response instead of completely ignoring it and simply repeating the same thing over and over again.

I'll explain it again, for teams with comparable salaries (ie at the salary floor), raising the salary floor would have the greatest effect on the teams which make the least money. Saying that all teams would be affected equally is like saying governments should implement a flat income tax of $20k because it will affect everyone equally. Taking from everyone equally does not mean everyone is affected equally.

I have explained my reasoning why this is untrue and why teams who make less money would be more affected. I'd appreciate it if you addressed my response instead of completely ignoring it and simply repeating the same thing over and over again. 

Sigh...

I haven't ignored your responses. I'm repeating myselp because you are ignoring the facts in my responses.

I'll explain it again, for teams with comparable salaries (ie at the salary floor), raising the salary floor would have the greatest effect on the teams which make the least money.

If you are spending the floor, you should make at least, if not more than, the weekly income than everyone else in your league. You spend about 3 times more than you should on staff and salaries. This is why you make the least amount of money...

Saying that all teams would be affected equally is like saying governments should implement a flat income tax of $20k because it will affect everyone equally.

Higher divisions pay a higher percentage of their tv revenue as their salary floor. Its explained in the game manual. If you think that lower divisions pay the exact same dollar value as the top divisions, you don't understand a thing about the subject that you are trying to argue.

Last edited by Perriwinkle Blue at 2/11/2016 8:29:19 PM

If you are spending the floor, you should make at least, if not more than, the weekly income than everyone else in your league.

Yes, this is true and it is also a good thing for the game. If teams at the floor weren't able to make more money than everyone else in the league, then they would have a very difficult time catching up to those teams above them unless they already had a lot of money saved up.

Higher divisions pay a higher percentage of their tv revenue as their salary floor. Its explained in the game manual. If you think that lower divisions pay the exact same dollar value as the top divisions, you don't understand a thing about the subject that you are trying to argue.

All my arguments and posts about salary floor having a greater impact on teams who make less money are based on teams in the same league. Sorry, maybe I should have made myself more clear.

All my arguments and posts about salary floor having a greater impact on teams who make less money are based on teams in the same league.

Don't waste your money and you won't be impacted.

Well, the reason I have a high level trainer is that I want to develop my players so that they can be the cornerstones at my team in all divisions. I don't want to spend many seasons training players only to have to sell them in div 2 because they aren't good enough any more. Yes, you can say its not a very money efficient strategy, but I'm fine with playing the long-term game.