Fixing Cash Abundance

[AndyP]

Here is a suggestion we floated about in XAT today and I think it's a positive way forward to eliminate some of the excess cash sitting in the league:

1. Cap team banks at 50M. This will force teams to keep cash on hand which will result in fewer fans attending games and players demanding higher salaries to resign.

2. Eliminate cash incentives for lineups.

Any thoughts/objections?

[Rhendricks]

What about teams like mine who are already well above the 50 Mil cap? Also, maybe just lower the incentive cash instead of completely eliminating it?

[AndyP]

We'd revert the cash in banks currently back into the file. So if you had 75M in the bank, we'd put 25M back into the game.

[Cdawg]

What he saying is the most your allowed to keep in the bank is 50M, any more than that and it will be put back into the file.

[Rhendricks]

Yeah, I understand that. Just seems to me that it will penalize those that have a nice sum in the bank currently since putting it back in game will trigger the effects that you mentioned above. I don't know, I guess I just have a skewed or biased opinion.

[AndyP]

It won't take effect until next offseason, but we have to do something about the mash cash banks we have building up. It's not very realistic and we want people running things realistically. So you have plenty of time to blow through some of that cash if you want.

[mike]

I think this would be a really bad route to take. It sounds good in theory but just think about it for a minute if it were put into practice. All of a sudden you have a huge influx of teams that now need to spend that cash or else essentially lose it. If they don't spend it, it will drive up their salary demands. People wouldn't be able to get rid of big sums through dealing cash for picks because the team that would be taking the cash would just have their own demands go up unless they planned on spending that cash right away. So that narrows it down to two options, stadium building/upgrades or FA. If you go the FA route salaries are going to go through the roof. Which isn't bad on the surface but the ripple effect would be enormous. Think Jrod's contract is big now just imagine if teams had nowhere to spend the cash except on fa's. What that would do is also drive up the demands on every player at that position that is similary rated. Guys like jrod would get bumped up to the high 30mil's and now every pitcher like him is going to demand that in the re-signing phase.

The only way this would work without completely throwing off the balance is to force teams with more than 50mil at the end of next season they have to spend it on stadium stuff so its completely flushed out of the league.

This is something that would have had to be done years ago if not right in the beginning. In 5tm theres no banks and people still have loads of cash so its not even guaranteed to solve any "issues" in the first place. There really isn't a problem here. Teams having lots of cash haven't hurt the league so let them hoard it and hopefully then one day just build a stadium.

I've never really liked cash incentives for anything let alone something you should be doing like posting lineups so yeah do away with that. Or make it something miniscule so its more of a thank you. Say 1mil, which would be enough to pay for a couple league min guys.

If the goal is to eliminate cash put a cap on cash. 50mil in game cash (or less). Anything after that "goes into the owners pockets" and deleted from the game. However in doing that you cant punish people who have saved and to get away from them just spending it all on FA's just give every team in the league a new stadium with excellent everything and in exchange the league has to be ok with anything over x amount is deleted at the end of the year.

In conclusion, there doesn't really seem to be a problem that's getting solved here other than trying to eliminate some cash from the league which really hasn't been an issue anyway. For what its worth it would simply have the potential to create a few really big problems all for the sake of eliminating some cash. Hopefully you can follow this long post im tired and have been up awhile.

[AndyP]

Those are fair points mike, I'm not particularly worried about it either, but others have expressed worry. Part of the problem with capping in-game cash is that is eliminates the ability to rebuild a stadium and I don't want to take that option away. You bring up a fair point about forced spending this week.....would it be better if we made a gradually decreasing cap? Like start really high (200M) and progressively year-by-year drop it by 20M.

Just a thought.

[mike]

I think enfotrcing the rule where you have to have your cash at 30mil in game would be a good start. I know I'm guilty of forgetting about that but I've also had years where I didn't bother telling anyone to take cash from in game and it into the bank. Maybe up that to 40 or 50mil mandatory in game cash.

A progresive system like that might work. If we went with still trying to get rid of cash it would be a decent start. What needs to be avoided is the mass spending in FA that would happen thus driving up demands essentially for every player when extensions are due. Maybe impliment a system where there is an in game cap of lets say 50mil and anything after that has to either be spent before the start of the nest season or it gets put into a stadium fund, and cannot be touched unless its used to build a stadium/upgrades. This way it still gives the option of staidum building but also gets rid of the cash since its all earmarked for stadium use.

[AndyP]

Well, we could allow for banks to be increased if the money is earmarked for a stadium. I'm not all that worried about the problem myself, but just wanting to talk about it.

I think it's safe to say the lineup rewards are probably gone.