Getting off track again,
Here is my thing with only allowing a 4 million dollar change a year per catagory. For Medical, Training, IFA, Prospect, and Coach budget, I totally agree. If you hadn't planned in the past, you only get to move a little bit. Deal with it. End of story.
My big thing is for the draft for College and High school. Lets say I have a team that is perennially getting into the playoffs either winning a weak division or taking the 6th wildcard spot with 88 to 90 wins, my current HS budget is 6 million and my college is 4. Now lets say in season XX that I drop my HS to 2 and my college to 0 to make a big splash in free agent signing and I get said free agent. Lets say my team underperforms and we end up winning between 70-75, the next season I have the 7-10th overall pick and the best scouting budget I can expect is 6 for my HS and 4 for my college. With the new 'fuzzy projections', I may as well punt the pick for the next 3 years until I can nab a guy that I have a vague idea how he will be.
Thoughts?