How do you make Finances Matter in My NBA Mode?

[shel311]

So my favorite mode is just MyNBA where I control the GM functions but I generally never look at finances.

Not sure if anyone is familiar with the OOTP Baseball sim, but I've played that for 10 years and Finances are a big piece of that, and I was wondering if there's a way to translate that or just make finances matter in general?

What I mean is, I can have a team with a huge payroll for multiple years and get into the repeater tax to the point of having years of $400-500mil in total expenses, and I'm not sure how that means anything? I Just keep chugging along losing a ton of money but still having full access to do whatever I want financially.

Is there a way to have the owner set budgets or baselines financially I have to hit so there's that challenge of building a good team/roster but having to work with some kind of financial framework as well?

[TheDominator273]

This is something that has bugged me for years. It causes trickle down issues such as they being no contract that is toxic enough to pay to dump it such as we see all the time in the NBA.

[LSTX10]

EA, San Diego studios, and 2k, should all hire OOTP people to help their games. On these games every player has value, on OOTP it is hard to trade a bad contract, or you have to attach other value to it. Anything that gets us closer to OOTP while also having gameplay will get us to where we all want to be in franchise modes!

[shel311]

Quote: Originally Posted by LSTX10

EA, San Diego studios, and 2k, should all hire OOTP people to help their games. On these games every player has value, on OOTP it is hard to trade a bad contract, or you have to attach other value to it. Anything that gets us closer to OOTP while also having gameplay will get us to where we all want to be in franchise modes!

I hear ya. I've been playing OOTP for 10 years. And this is certainly not meant to bash 2K or talk about how inferior it is to OOTP, definitely not my intention.

I was actually genuinely curious as i've played 2K for a loooong time, but I've never messed or gotten that deep into financials, and I'm not sure if there is a way to do it other than obviously just self-policing yourself, if you will.

[itsmb8]

Are there actual budgets now in MyNBA? Also, how is the luxury tax handled?

[shel311]

Quote: Originally Posted by itsmb8

Are there actual budgets now in MyNBA? Also, how is the luxury tax handled?

The only thing I've seen is an option where you can set a budget yourself.

The answer to how it handles the luxury tax as I know it is it's applying it correctly just like real life standards, but there's nothing to detract you from it.

See my OP, I can have $160mil+ payrolls every year, get heavy into the repeater tax with seasons of $400mil in expenses and $100mil losses, and it doesn't matter. I can just keep doing that every year. It's basically just a number, it doesn't force you to do anything.

[itsmb8]

Quote: Originally Posted by shel311

The only thing I've seen is an option where you can set a budget yourself. The answer to how it handles the luxury tax as I know it is it's applying it correctly just like real life standards, but there's nothing to detract you from it. See my OP, I can have $160mil+ payrolls every year, get heavy into the repeater tax with seasons of $400mil in expenses and $100mil losses, and it doesn't matter. I can just keep doing that every year. It's basically just a number, it doesn't force you to do anything.

Does it actually hold you to the budget you set? Like if your budget is 150m, will you be able to go over that anyways to have a 160m payroll for the year?

If so, it might be another thing that has to be handled by 30-team control by manually setting a budget for each team. Once I get next-gen this week ill hop in and take a look.

[Deflo_]

Best thing to do is 30 team control. For the team you’re playing as set your own requirements, or scenarios. For example, a small market team shedding salary at the deadline even if trying to be competitive