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I think there has been an underestimation of the effects of the consolidation of the leagues in the minor leagues. (At least that's how it is for me, I didn't expect such a drastic thing)

After seeing the new arrivals in my league, I took a quick look at my country's IV Series. I've only looked at a few because it takes me some time, but the BBs should be able to check faster.

Average salary of the series watched (I excluded the bot teams which are similar in number in all the series I watched):
IV.1 -> 145,211 $
IV.2 -> 145,811 $
...
IV.18 -> 178,211 $
...
IV.61 -> 59,527 $
IV.62 -> 73,660 $
IV.63 -> 84,446 $
IV.64 -> 91,477 $

The "expert" series have an average salary that is roughly double the "new" user series.

Out of curiosity I looked at the difference in my league between last season and the one that is about to begin:
S57 -> 111,443 $
S58 -> 178,211 $

So I said to myself, the contract of the TVs will also have been reported since it should be adapted to the level of the teams in the series:

S57 -> 74,126 $
S58 -> 74,434 $

So the average salary of the series grew by 60%, while the TV contract by 0.4%.

In addition, a spontaneous question arises, but in the series for the "new" what is this TV contract like?

Because here I know that the situation will be a big mess.
Undeserving teams, both for experience and substance, will have a promotion given away (in addition to high TV contacts compared to the quality of the series, more games won and therefore easier collections) while other teams that maybe for some seasons have been resetting their roster to go up now they find twice as many pretenders to the promotion with lower takings and having to have higher expenses to be able to compete.
I don't know to you it seems fair and just such a situation?
When I imagined the "consolidation of the leagues" I would never have imagined a bloodbath like this.

Last edited by Dormouse at 7/27/2022 12:53:57 PM

If I remember correctly you wont see the new TV revenue until the economic update next Monday.

The new TV contract doesn't come out until next Monday. You have been playing this game for quite some time now, did you really not know this? The bloodbath was the fact that you wasted so much of your time just to have to re-edit this post next Monday.

Instead, from the time you spent on this game, did you think that the only five lines that posed a problem in my previous post were those in which we talked about the TV contract?

On Monday it will be enough for me to change a line compared to the previous post, but the problem will remain .. to be competitive in my league I will have to raise my salary by 60 / 70k, do you really think that the TV contract will increase in proportion?

Back in the day, Sharman Globetrotter days, he found a glitch in the TV contract. He had everyone add salary before the first Monday update, and everyone did and we had our TV contract go up quite a bit. After the Monday update, we just fired the old 200K a week guys and it worked out. I bet you are surprised to see the amount of the TV contract next Monday. Please post the totals for your league. Thanks

Top lithuanian league blew up in salaries this season, as people just went mental in the market. Very interested to see the TV contract on monday

Ok, Monday has arrived.
The average wage has dropped a bit.
The TV contract went up..

Player Salaries:
S57 -> 111,443 $
S58 -> 168,901 $

TV Contract:
S57 -> 74,126 $
S58 -> 78,129 $


So in the face of an increase in competitiveness of almost 60k per week, the increase in the TV contract was just over 4k..

Now, leaving out this aspect, which could have been a vague compensation for the situation created with the Consolidation of the leagues, the biggest problem remains in promotions.

At the end of the season there will be teams of totally inexperienced managers with non-competitive rosters, who will be allowed to be promoted when teams that are much more competitive and ready to jump in the category will not be, just for a mere anti-meritocratic question.