I proposed a trade but sim said it will violate my payroll next year. It shows budget only 65 million and the trade would make it 65.5 million. I'm sure my budget will be much higher next year when I set it but how can i make the trade work now?

Trade someone with at least two seasons at over 500k.

transfer money from prospect budget to payroll if you have any

Budget Information, Player Payroll Budget - This captures your current budget status. The player payroll figure represents the amount that you have allocated to your player payroll +/- any transferred cash from trades. The amount that you may allocate to future seasons is reduced by 80%, 70%, 50% and 50% in order to prevent trashing a franchise for the future. You may not allocate more than this payroll budget for any season.

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OK, the language used is horrible, because next season's payroll is not reduced *by* 80% but instead *to* 80%, but either way, by the HELP language, increasing this season's payroll (via transfer or cash included in the deal) should increase next season's available payroll as well...

EDIT - and it's clearly not 50% and 50% for each of the final two years (I'm guessing, without reviewing numbers, it should say 60% and 50%). Either way though, increasing this year's payroll should increase future season's payrolls as well.

It doesn't.

Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 1/24/2010It doesn't.

Going through examples in my current Worlds, I'll have to disagree -

Payroll Budget Old * New *
Season 3 $50,950,000 $47,278,201 $47,278,201
Season 4 $40,800,000 $2,600,000 $2,600,000
Season 5 $35,700,000 $0 $0
Season 6 $30,600,000 $0 $0
Season 7 $25,500,000 $0 $0

These are the numbers for someone who began the season with a payroll budget of $71M and has since transferred money out of payroll budget to get to a $51M payroll budget.

As you can see, his future season payroll caps are based on the *current* Payroll Budget, not what was initially budgeted.

I stand corrected. Has it always been that way?

As long as I've paid attention to it, it has, but I generally *hate* locking up future season's payrolls, so I have to admit it could have been different in the past and just slipped under my radar.

And so, to the OP's question - if he needs to raise next season's payroll by $500k, a transfer of $2M (-$1m tax) into payroll should up this year's payroll by $1M and next season's by $800k (80% of this year's increase), giving him enough room.

Or, to avoid the tax, offer the trade with $1M in cash coming back to you.

Quote: Originally posted by zbrent716 on 1/24/2010Or, to avoid the tax, offer the trade with $1M in cash coming back to you.

That won't do it. Future seasons' payrolls are based on your actual money, not money received in trades.

thanks guys

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