how do you fix this?
i cut payroll drastically, got my team under the cap, made very few moves to spend money at all then had my team flop and lost tons of money. how can you fix this if your players suck in the sim and now i lose a first round pick? aren't we as a league, doing a huge dis-service to that team losing more potentially good players from the draft that could help me get solvent in the next year?
can we not think of another method not to penalize a team who, in good faith, tried their best to get things right? maybe a team like mine, could be counseled by the league offices, like the real mlb teams would do and do, and give me other ways to get solvent? you are going to take away from me the one thing i need to get better; young picks i can develop without spending money on free agents. what really is the purpose of the penalty when it will probably not help my bottom line but hurt it?
i did what i was told and advised by the league offices during the season and last off-season and still, look how bad my bottom line is? i cut like 4 players who had big contracts, traded a bunch others, and really, i don't know how i can do anything else at this point! can someone help me out here? i am getting very discouraged about this whole deal and am contemplating just not participating any more if i can't compete.
one huge thing is nobody ever explained to me until after our initial 2007 draft of players, what was going on with veterans salaries and how much they were to be paid. then, i got hit with these ungodly high salaries on like 6 of my players when i had no clue, never before playing this game, what any salary would be. then, i get rid of the high salaries and cannot be competitive and lose money in 2008 again, because i did not know these things and nobody gave me a hint that pitching is so important.
i thought it would be more realistic like the majors and you would not need a team era under 3.00 to compete. this is totally unrealistic and why are my pitchers giving up over 5-6 runs a game when their stats before 2007 were much better?
anyway, help me out here. i am not having fun knowing i have to play scrubs and won't have pitching for 3-5 years at the rate of development i am at. then, take away my chance to get a solid pitching prospect in the first round and again, i am at another disadvantage. i really wish someone would have been honest with me before i started playing with guys who have been doing this for years like most of the owners. it sucks!
of all owners, i feel i am in the worst possible predicament and had the most to learn and least knowledge going into this game for 2007. i tried to learn it all but just one person giving me a bit of pitching advice and contract advice would have probably gotten me out of any of this money problem i am in now!
just so all owners will understand, i am very involved in my team and prepare very diligently for each sim. i set my own lineups, study stats, check the ratings and progress of all my players, look through waiver and free agents for steals (2 of my top 10 hitting prospects were from free agent minor league signings!) and generally do all i should and even more as an owner. but still, i am $26 million in the red? how does that happen?
plmk thnx!
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