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What happens if they are below the "max", but then because they are training players, the next season salary increase takes them over the cap?

We can implement something which allows them to exceed the cap with trained players. Something like Bird Rights.

I would suggest that only the initial salary of the player (salary when they are acquired) counts towards the cap. This figure is already used for training exemption, so we might as well just reuse it for the cap. Plus it would also encourage people to train players, especially their draftees, coz then that would mean they almost have a free player.

The downside is if you have an aging team and your player's salary drops, their initial salary will still count towards the cap, not their current salary.

Tanking team sells all their players and trains three players from scratch while hoarding money.

It's hypothetical, but in reality it doesn't really come hand in hand. Training the players would actually put a dent into you hoarding money. Players could only tank and hoard money because they don't have additional expenses, like training courts and high level trainers. Not to mention doctors to prevent injuries from lingering. I legit could have hit the 25 million cap way faster than I am now (I ain't even halfway there at the moment), but having to fork out 3 million to change a level 7 coach every now and then kinda put a dent to my expenses. Having to maintain an environment that gives my players the best training it can receive isn't cheap.

If you want to train in a way which won't hurt your expenses, then you'd need to get like... A level 4 trainer? How long will that take before you hit the cap of a HoF? 10 seasons?

I mean if you really spent 10 seasons while training 3 HoFs just for a championship, by all means you deserve a championship win over those who buy players without training anyone.

Last edited by BuzzRBeater at 2/22/2023 8:49:59 AM

As my BB colleagues say, there can be two caps, a hard cap and one with exceptions where trainable players would enter.

We could add a luxury tax.

Another factor that could be added to the Max cap and Min Cap is to make a League Ranking.

For example: Spain is the country with the most successful clubs in international competitions. Its Salary Cap would be $1,200,000 per month and therefore its box office income would also increase by the same % of the salary cap.

And if Venezuela is the country with the least successful clubs in international competitions, its Salary Cap would be $800,000 and also its box office income will not receive any type of Bonus.

To repeat what was correctly pointed out earlier, this needs it's own thread, it will be broken up by other real minor suggestions.

One huge drawback for me is that if you have caps that are different in every league, which sounds logical, then the BBB will no longer be between teams playing by the same rules.

Fixing that by perhaps exempting BBB teams would be impossible as then national leagues would be between teams playing by different rules.

But it is that the sport itself has always been like this, not everyone plays by the same rules.

Countries with greater audience and competitiveness always have better income.

Different incomes are not rules. Bringing in a rule knowing it will advantage some countries over others is entirely different.

Do you see it unfair that the most competitive countries receive better income? I think it's the most normal.

That's irrelevant

Not necessarily... it might even spread those players around more teams, depending on how it's implemented.
One of the purposes of a cap is parity.
But to your point, that might be accurate too... the implementation of the cap and the salary formula might have to be figured out in tandem, rather than separately. It really depends on the values and such.