EXPENSES DIALOGThis dialog gives you a quick breakdown of the expenses for running your franchise. Here, you can control how much you're spending on Medical Staff, your Farm System, and Scouting. Each category has a ranking, comparing your budget to that of other teams. This way, you can see if what you're spending is commensurate with the rest of the league. The numbers shown are expenditures on an annual basis for each category. Typical amounts vary by season, with teams generally spending 5-10% of their revenue on each of these categories.
The more you spend on each of these catagories, the better results you'll get from each. However, these expenses eat into the money available for player salaries. To stay within budget, compare your "Projected Expenses" to your current year's "Projected Revenue". To see the degree to which your expenditures are paying off, go to the Finances Page and click on one of the column headers. Choose 'Farm System', 'Scouting' or 'Medical Staff' to see how your franchises components are rated compared to the rest of the league. For the most part, it is not how much money you spend on these expenses, but instead how your spending compares to the other teams. The ballclub that spends the most on scouts, for example, will attract and retain the best scouts in the league. But spending more money on them will not make them appreciably better. So, for example, if you can be the #5 ranked ballclub spending $12,000,000, then there is little reason to spend $15,000,000 unless it bumps you up to the #4 ranking or better. Farm System Medical Staff Scouting Staff Scouting also affects the accuracy of the Auto-Sort feature, since your coaches rely on the scouts reports when they choose the lineup and pitching rotation. If you have poor scouts, you had better pay close attention to the actual performance of your players when you place them in your active roster. |
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