2091 Season Thread - Into the Future

[TheGobOne]

Offseason File is up. Reports and S+ to follow. NO SIM TOMORROW. Sims will resume on Friday.

- Reminder that your budget is set to last year's regular season revenue. The email you get from your owner is incorrect. Check your Finances page to see the correct number.
- The new Qualifying Offer is $17,769,803 (up from $17,532,361) based on the average salary of the top 125 players.
- National Media Revenue has been equalized and Local Media Revenue has been removed. All teams will now receive $45M/year equally.
- Please read the offseason schedule and let me know if you have any issues.


- The following teams had excess cash (cash over $50M remaining after revenue sharing) converted to stadium seats (this is something I'm going to do default for all teams going forward):

• Cookeville - $23.15M - Already at max seats....cash burned

• Los Angeles - $21.34M (rounded to $20M) - Added 4,000 seats

• Philadelphia - $15.85M (rounded to $15) - Added 3,000 seats

2090 Champions
NDL - Prosper Eagles
AAA - Saskatoon Riot (Moose Jaw)
AA - Huntsville Rocketeers (Bloordale)
A - Black Hills Miners (Edmonton)
A- - Fairbanks Gold Hearts (Bloordale)
R - Los Oros Sharks (Baltimore)

News
Julian Reyes is running for Congress
Donnie Johnson (San Francisco) named the #1 prospect

Sim Schedule
to Nov 27th - Salary Arbitration complete - Free Agents file - Awards announced - HoF voting starts
to Dec 11th - Winter Meetings start (last chance to set ticket prices)
to Dec 25th - Rule 5 Draft Pool revealed - Winter Meetings end (ticket prices lock)
to Jan 8th - Rule 5 Draft takes place at the start of sim
to Jan 22nd - Yearly History Reports uploaded
to Feb 5th - Preseason Begins - Schedule loaded
to Feb 19th - HoF results
to Mar 5th - Spring Training Begins
to Mar 19th - Draft Pool revealed
to Apr 2nd - Opening Day - Waivers/DFA return to 14/15

[wdoupis]

I am ok with the 3 week sim to get to preseason but not the 4 week sim. The off-season only takes a week and if we wipe out free agent negotiations then what are we doing here? If you get the favors offer you are in a horrible spot now and that is with two week sims. I just think a week long off-season is not that long and gives us a proper free agency period.

[TheGobOne]

I will wait for others to post, but I did now realize that FAs come back to you at the Preseason sim with the "Let's re-visit talks" so going back to 2 weeks makes sense there.

[GeorgesGoons]

Sim it all in one some for all I care

[plasma1896]

whats the rush to get into the season? i see making the all star game week a 2 week sim instead of a 4 game sim, but going thru the preseason fast is really going to screw fa offers, and i like to bring some guys up for the 1st 2 weeks of spring training to get them a taste before they hit the 40 man roster.

im not sure why we need to race thru offseason stuff which is probably more important then during the season.

[TheGobOne]

Ok after some input and talking to a few of you I will revert it back to the 2 week sims across the board (or as close as I can get to 2 weeks at a time.)

[TheGobOne]

I updated the offseason schedule. Have a look. Note the 1 week sim for Salary Arb. After that it's 2 weeks all the way until the season starts.

[Wasted Memory]

- The following teams had excess cash (cash over $50M remaining after revenue sharing) converted to stadium seats (this is something I'm going to do default for all teams going forward):

• Cookeville - $23.15M - Already at max seats....cash burned

I'm actually surprised we had that much surplus. I knew there'd be some but didn't want to pay into revenue sharing if I could avoid it. I went after several FA's last season too.

[TheGobOne]

- The following teams had excess cash (cash over $50M remaining after revenue sharing) converted to stadium seats (this is something I'm going to do default for all teams going forward):

• Cookeville - $23.15M - Already at max seats....cash burned

I'm actually surprised we had that much surplus. I knew there'd be some but didn't want to pay into revenue sharing if I could avoid it. I went after several FA's last season too.

Ya honestly you are usually close or at maximum....open them purse strings!!

[GeorgesGoons]

- The following teams had excess cash (cash over $50M remaining after revenue sharing) converted to stadium seats (this is something I'm going to do default for all teams going forward):

• Cookeville - $23.15M - Already at max seats....cash burned

I'm actually surprised we had that much surplus. I knew there'd be some but didn't want to pay into revenue sharing if I could avoid it. I went after several FA's last season too.

We take charity over here

[nick]

[Cnasty]

Can we do a divisional type, college football payout to share across the divisions for bowl games, titles?

I’d like some of that cash!

[nick]

Can we do a divisional type, college football payout to share across the divisions for bowl games, titles?

I’d like some of that cash!

ya send Bly and i'll send you 75 mil of it.

[TheGobOne]

File is up. Reports and S+ to follow.

- Arbitration complete. 2 weeks (1 sim) before FA to negotiate with those who you declined arb or are still trying to re-sign. (declined options...etc)

- Hall of Fame voting now open! This is a league requirement.

Sim Schedule
to Nov 13th - Salary Arbitration complete - HoF voting starts
to Nov 27th - Free Agents file - Awards announced
to Dec 11th - Winter Meetings start (last chance to set ticket prices)
to Dec 25th - Rule 5 Draft Pool revealed - Winter Meetings end (ticket prices lock)
to Jan 8th - Rule 5 Draft takes place at the start of sim
to Jan 22nd - Yearly History Reports uploaded
to Feb 5th - Preseason Begins - Schedule loaded
to Feb 19th - HoF results
to Mar 5th - Spring Training Begins
to Mar 19th - Draft Pool revealed
to Apr 2nd - Opening Day - Waivers/DFA return to 13/14

[Cnasty]

Can we do a divisional type, college football payout to share across the divisions for bowl games, titles?

I’d like some of that cash!

ya send Bly and i'll send you 75 mil of it.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[TheGobOne]

Wanna give a quick explanation why we don't sim straight to FA. I've had a few people asking so I wanted to clear it up. The reason is to give people a chance to decline Arb And then try to sign them lower. For example, on my team Juan Burgos was due to make almost $15 million because his base arbitration amount had climbed to $11 million. I have declined arbitration and I'm now going to try to sign him for much cheaper. If we don't have this sim that's not possible and they go straight to free agency.

[TheGobOne]

Wanna give a quick explanation why we don't sim straight to FA. I've had a few people asking so I wanted to clear it up. The reason is to give people a chance to decline Arb And then try to sign them lower. For example, on my team Juan Burgos was due to make almost $15 million because his base arbitration amount had climbed to $11 million. I have declined arbitration and I'm now going to try to sign him for much cheaper. If we don't have this sim that's not possible and they go straight to free agency.

Well it turns out I am retarded and they just go straight to FA after being declined arb. I swear to god they didn't leave until FA and you got a chance to sign them. From now on we'll just go straight to FA (through Arb) in the first sim. My bad guys lol.

[Cnasty]

Prosper has officially submitted our HOF ballot and open to public record:

Michael Chamberlain-SP
Al Conner-CF
Alberto Villanueva-SP

[qazhby]

Make the playoffs 6 years in a row, win a championship and now finally have a "good" fan loyalty rating

[GeorgesGoons]

Make the playoffs 6 years in a row, win a championship and now finally have a "good" fan loyalty rating

This part of the game is absolutely broken. Burnaby has been hot garbage for nearly 30 years and they have Good fan loyalty.