Great video as usual! You are the only content creator who is actually teaching something besides hitting, pitching and stealing. Thank you. I've been trying to sort out why the budgets work the way they do. One theory I have is, you run out of money signing your renewables, because you have to be able to cover the costs of the contracts you do sign, using your "today's dollars" so all that money is already earmarked for those players. That still doesn't explain why you would be able to sign a guy out of the organization to a big contract if you are allegedly out of money. My only conclusion is that budgets are just broken.
I think I agree that it's honestly just broken. Thank you for watching the videos! I'm happy I can help teach concepts of the game. Thank you for leaving a comment as well! I'm not great at responding all the time, but I want you to keep leaving comments when you can.
Thank you! I found an 18 year old pitcher that was an 84 overall so I didn't want to screw this up. He basically wouldn't take anything over three years even at ridiculous amounts but at keast I'll have him fkr a long time.
Dang, wish I saw this an hour ago before I lost my entire farm in my first off-season because I didn’t make offers to the guys that didn’t show “contract renewable” next to their name
Great video! Just finished my first offseason and I'm annoyed at the budget. Going into spring training I had a little over $7 million in available budget but then when I entered the regular season, my budget went down to -$5 million. Not sure what happened and why the game decided I had less money than before. Any tips or insight?
Revenue sharing and estimated team revenue updates at the beginning of the regular season. This means that you could potentially run into trouble financially based on what you do/do not do in the off-season and you won't know it until the regular season. Do you have a save file that you can load in your off-season to compare the amounts?
I had a question about DFA. I know what it is but why would you DFA someone rather than just releasing them? I've never DFA'd any player. If I needed to get rid of them quickly I'd just release them.
It's useful when you want to remove someone from your 40-man but you don't want to release them or pass them through waivers to a minor league assignment. This gives you a period of time to shop the player around or figure out what you are going to do with him. Technically, time isn't scarse unless you simulate forward. You can figure out what you are going to do with the player without moving forward (irl you need this figured out before a game) The only benefit in the show I could see is if you had an aging heavily declining veteran at a position and you wanted to add someone new to that position. You could remove the veteran from your roster with the hopes of moving him for something In the DFA period. This is still a fringe case imo when you would use it
Irl It basically alerts teams that the player will be on waivers which creates trade interest for teams that might want the player but are one of the last teams for wavier claims.. does not really affect anything in the game though
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Great video as usual! You are the only content creator who is actually teaching something besides hitting, pitching and stealing. Thank you. I've been trying to sort out why the budgets work the way they do. One theory I have is, you run out of money signing your renewables, because you have to be able to cover the costs of the contracts you do sign, using your "today's dollars" so all that money is already earmarked for those players. That still doesn't explain why you would be able to sign a guy out of the organization to a big contract if you are allegedly out of money. My only conclusion is that budgets are just broken.
I think I agree that it's honestly just broken. Thank you for watching the videos! I'm happy I can help teach concepts of the game. Thank you for leaving a comment as well! I'm not great at responding all the time, but I want you to keep leaving comments when you can.
Thank you! I found an 18 year old pitcher that was an 84 overall so I didn't want to screw this up. He basically wouldn't take anything over three years even at ridiculous amounts but at keast I'll have him fkr a long time.
Dang, wish I saw this an hour ago before I lost my entire farm in my first off-season because I didn’t make offers to the guys that didn’t show “contract renewable” next to their name
That is the worst feeling.
Yes very useful I didn't know alot about the contracts u help me out alot
I don't play 22 but they've changed it so little from last year, this info you share applies to 21 as well. 👍
Good stuff as always. Great stuff…
Great video! Just finished my first offseason and I'm annoyed at the budget. Going into spring training I had a little over $7 million in available budget but then when I entered the regular season, my budget went down to -$5 million. Not sure what happened and why the game decided I had less money than before. Any tips or insight?
I can’t say I specially know why it would do that, but I can attempt to test it out to find out!
Revenue sharing and estimated team revenue updates at the beginning of the regular season. This means that you could potentially run into trouble financially based on what you do/do not do in the off-season and you won't know it until the regular season. Do you have a save file that you can load in your off-season to compare the amounts?
I was thinking some of those contracts probably were getting more money later in their contracts. Might wanna check your contracts by year.
thank you
I had a question about DFA. I know what it is but why would you DFA someone rather than just releasing them? I've never DFA'd any player. If I needed to get rid of them quickly I'd just release them.
I’ve been wondering the same
It's useful when you want to remove someone from your 40-man but you don't want to release them or pass them through waivers to a minor league assignment. This gives you a period of time to shop the player around or figure out what you are going to do with him. Technically, time isn't scarse unless you simulate forward. You can figure out what you are going to do with the player without moving forward (irl you need this figured out before a game) The only benefit in the show I could see is if you had an aging heavily declining veteran at a position and you wanted to add someone new to that position. You could remove the veteran from your roster with the hopes of moving him for something In the DFA period. This is still a fringe case imo when you would use it
Irl It basically alerts teams that the player will be on waivers which creates trade interest for teams that might want the player but are one of the last teams for wavier claims.. does not really affect anything in the game though