I might add that draft budgets are one thing, and IFA budgets another. Even with IFA scouting $2mil you can still play the IFA game by focusing on bonus demands and current ratings. Generally, guys I've seen asking for bonuses over $2-2.5 mil are always ML prospects.

Quote: Originally posted by MikeT23 on 1/20/2010It's an easy to solve problem.   IF the incoming owner wants to reset the budget, create an alias to transfer the team to before rollover.   Then let the owner sign up and have the team back, with reset budgets, at rollover.Do it above board and I don't think anyone in your world would object or be forced to wonder why shobobsbuddy ran a team for one season(since it would show on your saved standings).

Yes. That's the way that I will do it from now on. I made a rookie commish mistake thinking that he "should" be able to reset his budgets in the offseason just like a new owner.

Quote: Originally posted by gjello10 on 1/20/2010I might add that draft budgets are one thing, and IFA budgets another.  Even with IFA scouting $2mil you can still play the IFA game by focusing on bonus demands and current ratings.  Generally, guys I've seen asking for bonuses over $2-2.5 mil are always ML prospects.

yep

I made the mistake of bringing my IFA scouting down to 6 instead of up to 14 with a newly acquired "trash heap" team (I think I was drunk on budget day - all day). I ended up having to use the demands as a method to determine an IFA's value. I ended up overpaying (because I knew I wouldn't see many others) for Pepe Cortes. I'd say it worked. All you zero adv scouting users, you can still tell this is a good prospect.

Quote: Originally Posted By shobob on 1/20/2010I made the mistake of bringing my IFA scouting down to 6 instead of up to 14 with a newly acquired "trash heap" team (I think I was drunk on budget day - all day). I ended up having to use the demands as a method to determine an IFA's value. I ended up overpaying (because I knew I wouldn't see many others) for Pepe Cortes. I'd say it worked. All you zero adv scouting users, you can still tell this is a good prospect

Yup. Tony Diaz for $4 mil bonus with $6 mil scouting. No more than a platoon player at the BL level eventually, but a dynamite vsR platoon player is worth a lot to me, on the grounds that vsL platoon halves are easy to find cheap. He's gonna kill RHP.

I picked upWillie Vazquez as the other half of the platoon for 760,000 this season

Quote: Originally Posted By gjello10 on 1/20/2010Yup. Tony Diaz for $4 mil bonus with $6 mil scouting. No more than a platoon player at the BL level eventually, but a dynamite vsR platoon player is worth a lot to me, on the grounds that vsL platoon halves are easy to find cheap. He's gonna kill RHP

Did you notice his 37 makeup?

Isn't makeup overrated? $4 mil isn't too much of a gamble I'd say.

tec the only 37 I noticed was the number of seasons you've played without winning a championship. Instead of giving your negative feedback on every subject maybe you should try focussing on winning something instead.

OH!!! THAT'S GONNA LEAVE A MARK!!!

$4 mil is a pretty cheap IFA gamble. And yes, his makeup is low, but he doesn't have too far to go in his key offensive ratings. The point was (and maybe I wasn't clear enough) is that he looked terrible on my $6 mil scouting projections, but I signed him based on bonus demands, and once he was in my system, my advanced scouting told me I had a good value. If you have $6 mil scouting in IFA but a ton of cash, bid on any player asking for $3 mil+ in bonus. It's not like the draft, where lots of guys are asking for $2.5 mil to pass up that hoops scholarship, but they aren't worth a 5th round pick.

Quote: Originally Posted By timf on 1/20/2010tec the only 37 I noticed was the number of seasons you've played without winning a championship. Instead of giving your negative feedback on every subject maybe you should try focussing on winning something instead

Does anybody (sniff) have a tissue?

Are you whacking it while reading the forums again?

Ewwww.....

Only to your posts, big guy!

Quote: Originally Posted By timf on 1/20/2010tec the only 37 I noticed was the number of seasons you've played without winning a championship. Instead of giving your negative feedback on every subject maybe you should try focussing on winning something instead

But will he win his first before he plays his 46th season?