How to make Money Count in MLB The Show

[MLB Bob]

How to Make Money Count in MLB The Show

I made a blog post about something I'd like to see in MLB The Show and know some have opinions on it. Read, discuss, enjoy. Thanks

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I understand budgets, payroll and contracts in MLBTS are not set to real amounts, but they are not to scale either. Mark Buehrle makes less than $2 million in-game. In real life he's on an $18-$20 million a year payday, making him a big contract and harder to move player. In game he would be no problem.Here’s my idea: Put all the features with Owners Mode back in and add some new ones so money means something again. These features will make this part of the game more fun and add depth in the process. My example would be: let’s say you make an historic roster and don’t want to see big contracts, set it to small budgets. Play The Show as-is with default scaled budgets or play a fantasy or even more realistic franchise and have closer to modern day salaries. The dream would be to set how much the elite, average and league minimum players would get manually and have the league scale itself from your manually set input value. The point isn’t to only make money important, but also make it necessary. To do this, it has to affect your franchise in different ways and you don’t want to make it so easy to accumulate mass amounts of money that it becomes a moot point in your franchise, as it has in the past. The key areas to have money and your profit directly affect your franchise is to have it adjust how much you can spend on things such as player budgets, international players and draft spending, trades that include money, facilities, staff and relocation. (Things like international spending and the draft has pots in real life, but many teams don’t use the max.) As an owner you sell tickets, do giveaways, set vendor prices and run your team to try and make a profit. (Also a nice little feature to “steal” from FIFA would be the Financial Takeover. Have a team get a new owner with big money and completely change the way a franchise is headed.) The set up would be to take your overall allotted budget you have as an owner and shift sliders to allocate money to the areas you want to spend it on at the beginning of every off season. A nice enhancement would be to choose to start your franchise at the beginning of current year’s spring training, which is the traditional method, or start in the off-season of previous year, allowing you to build your team going into spring training before you even play a game. These sliders would be broken down into categories. As Owner you would set them and play out your franchise for that season with your chosen allotted amounts. Every off season you evaluate your team and reset them according to your bank. You can only allot what you have available by earning it through your traditional channels of team revenue that year.

So the big things I think about that I mention are trades that involve cash. Id like to be able to add cash to deals to move high priced contracts or just straight up trade a player for cash. This process would be pointless unless money meant something.

Being able to upgrade minor league stadiums, add grass patterns, and all the previous facility upgrades that were offered before would be a great reintroduction.

Id like to see the International Free agent market available in game, and I want to to have more control over how big or small my budget for player personnel actually is, but money has to mean something.

I want to be an owner and say "Im increasing payroll, get me a championship"

I dont want to have to win so many games to gain 8%. I don't want to have it dictated by some preconceived idea of the market. And that's where my slider idea came in and the ideas to adjust it at the beginning of every off season.

[fantasyboi]

this is pretty much spot on to what I would like to c mainly but I highly doubt we r gonna get it all. U would assume we will finally c 3 team trades and the ability to trade cash and I would really love to c the ability to upgrade facilities or even build a new park (see Oakland). While u r in the same mindset as me, I just dont see all of this happening just yet. Although I think this years game needs to be tailored to the more hardcore baseball fan IMO.

[Still2REal]

Yeah I would love something along this line, but I highly doubt we ever get it. I don't even think they are allowed to put franchise relocation in the game with all these other restrictions they have placed on them.

Probably get new menus and ball physics this year along with the Online Franchise (and hopefully improved online to make it worthwhile)

[DesertFox]

Quote: Originally Posted by Still2REal

I don't even think they are allowed to put franchise relocation in the game with all these other restrictions they have placed on them.

I don't even know why people think this is possible. Why would teams and MLB ever agree to a relocation option in The Show? What incentive do they have to allow it? Sure, in something like OOTP, relocation is completely possible as they don't have any kind of licensing agreement with MLB, but for the Show, many of the stadiums have ad names (like Petco Park) or are quite historical (Fenway Park; seriously, why would Boston every allow their team to be relocated in a video game?).

Don't get me wrong, it would be an awesome feature. But it will never happen in The Show. Period. End of discussion.

[MLB Bob]

I guess I should have included the part omitted from my original blog that says the relocation part of the system is just a dream and not to detract from the rest of the article.

As we see the only part people seem to be focusing on and it was the least focused on in the blog for this reason. If anything Id rather see something like a franchise take over that wouldnt have to include a new park, new team or anything change other than a buyer like the LAD had. I like the discussion but please move on from the relocation bit being important in this discussion

I edited the main post so we can get past everything revolving around relocation

[dingleberryfinn]

I don't think it's a given MLB wouldn't be open to the idea of relocation in a video game esp. their premier video game. Maybe after Bud's out.
But heck you'd think after he was able to get the Pilots to leave Seattle he wouldn't object.
Then again he's so old he doesn't remember the 1970's lmao

[MLB Bob]

So the big things I think about that I mention are trades that involve cash. Id like to be able to add cash to deals to move high priced contracts or just straight up trade a player for cash. This process would be pointless unless money meant something.

Being able to upgrade minor league stadiums, add grass patterns, and all the previous facility upgrades that were offered before would be a great reintroduction.

Id like to see the International Free agent market available in game, and I want to to have more control over how big or small my budget for player personnel actually is, but money has to mean something.

I want to be an owner and say "Im increasing payroll, get me a championship"

I dont want to have to win so many games to gain 8%. I don't want to have it dictated by some preconceived idea of the market. And that's where my slider idea came in and the ideas to adjust it at the beginning of every off season.

Im not sure these sentiments got through with my post, if they didnt I may edit.