As I understood it, the reasoning for limiting budget adjustments to -/+ 4 each year is to prevent someone from totally screwing up a team in one year, for the next owner.

However, it seems quite a few franchises have their budgets reset when a new owner takes over.

I just took over a new team and the budget values were all reset, without my request.  Normally that wouldn't bother me, but looking at the last owner's values, some of the categories were close to where I like them and it will now take me 2-3 seasons to get them back there.

So my question is, why limit budget adjustments when new owners can just reset the budget values anyway?

Two aspects to that question.

1)  It's been suggested that when a new owner takes over a franchise, they should be given an option to either retain the previous owner's budget (with the +/- 4 adjustment), or just get "reset" to 10 across the board (as it currently works now).  Seems to be a reasonable suggestion.

2)  The reason why there is a +/- 4 adjustment limit is to prevent owners from gaming the system, particularly with scouting.  For instance, one season you can bring your advanced scouting up to $20m, cut-and-paste everybody's projections into a spreadsheet, and then bump the advanced scouting budget back down to 0 for the next couple of seasons.  It also prevents owners from doing the same with their draft and/or IFA scouting budgets from season to season, i.e. one season deciding to go all in on IFA and punt the draft, or vice-versa.

Makes sense.

But as for the reset...I've taken over three teams in my HBD career (the fourth was a brand new world) and this is the first of the three where budgets have been reset.  And oddly enough, the one I'd have most preferred to be left alone.

Did you take over the other 2 as a replacement owner during the season?  Because if you joined a world at rollover, you should have gotten the reset.  If you take over mid-season, you're treated like an existing owner at the start of the next.

Taken over all three at rollover

If you get in before rollover, the budget doesn't reset.