spending over budget

[Admin]

do we need a rule that prohibits spending over budget in future years? since none established, pitty is WAYYYY over budget for next year.
1) disallow overspending for future years
2) allow but you cant trade out of it. you must drop players to get even.
3) ?
4) who cares--leave it alone

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

any new rule would have to be put into place for a future year.

real life leagues dont have any rules for future years i dont think.

that said, im ok with a rule that you cant go over, say $110,000,000 or something.

[Detroit]

I will chime in...

I think overspending for future years is ok, but I agree to put a cap on how much you are allowed to go over the 90million mark.
It should be up to that manager to adjust his roster at the end of the season for the next season to get under budget of 90 million.

I vote to allow it, but put a cap on it. Major league teams don't usually go over cap more than 10% of their budget, so I say 100 million is about right.

[Detroit]

I agree with #2. A team should be penalized to not allow him to trade out of it, he must make corresponding drops at the end of the season to get him under budget for next season.

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

i dont like any rule that restricts trading.

[Deleted]

As long as the team is under the cap at the beginning of the next season and stays under it during that season he is totally in compliance with the rules. I also doubt that this is the first time someone has gone over the cap in a future season. He should also be able to use all means possible to get under the cap as long as the existing rules are not violated. If you don't want this type of situation to occur again, simply quit paying the salary for the current year when trading players with contract years remaining past the current year. Much ado about nothing.

[Deleted]

I don't see a reason to change anything. A team that is over budget for the next year has to address that problem when final rosters are submitted for the next year.

That can be addressed by trading with another team before the deadline, or cutting players to make it to the cap. It can backfire on the team if that team does not find a trading partner, causing him to cut players and eat a portion of the salary for the remaining years of the cut players contracts. That is a risk that someone has to be aware of.

[torontobluejays]

I do not see a problem with being over budget in future years, either. It is the current season that matters. As long as he is under budget this season, everything is fine. Pittsburgh has to deal with next year. If someone wants to trade with him, that is their decision. Otherwise, he will be making some major cuts.

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

i think the solution is to encourage more teams to 'go for it' in the current year rather than encouraging teams to be in a constant state of rebuilding. its more exciting when more teams are competitive.

nobody thought i had a chance this year with all the FAs i lost last year. but here we are at the halfway point and im back at the top because i 'went for it' this season. more teams should go for broke imho.

of course, ill pay for it next year. that's the way it works and is exactly the reason we have a salary cap league.

(unless that is, i have a super secret plan for next year. bwaaaa haa haaaaa!)

[torontobluejays]

It may be time to send in James Bond or Austin Powers to disrupt your super secret plan.

[Deleted]

As long as u are under budget by the date roster are due (in October) I'm ok with it. If u are still over at that point a 10% penalty should be imposed and team should be suspended until corrected.

[Minnesota Twins]

I vote no penalty. If we are going to penalize anyone it should be everyone who keeps giving Pitt cash in every deal, but then again I'm guilty of getting cash too. This seems to be a case of boys being boys...

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEPVGtwsO8

[Deleted]

Personally, I'm fine with it as is as long as you are fine in the current season. It still has to be accounted for by the team in question.

[Deleted]

Pitts is the new America. I don't see anything wrong with being over the cap for future years. Teams will have be under it for next year.