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theawesomestevr posted...

KCF0107 posted...

I can consider going up to $159-160 mil next season. The in-game cap space is something like $204 mil, which is insane.

That being said, I do prefer forcing teams to make tough decisions and the well-off teams to spread their "wealth" around.

What's the user cap currently at?

Also, is the issue with the $204 mil cap that the AI just won't spend money to compete with users (I know it's been explained before by KCF; I just don't remember)? Obviously with more cap space in real life, it just means that everyone spends more, so it doesn't quite matter so much since everyone is going to devote a certain percentage of their cap to certain positions/players, but I guess if the AI for some reason doesn't spend their money, then it becomes a competitive balance problem.

I feel like in the last couple of year some of the AI teams have acquired some of the big name free agents though, so maybe we're in a good spot and should up the cap slightly each year for users, but I'm just guessing and leave that in the more knowledgeable hands of KCF.

It's at 157m and I want to say it has stayed at that for maybe 4 seasons now.

The issue with 204m is that the AI won't pay over the odds for players so when users were on equal footing with them, AI would never get the good players as users had too much cap room to throw about.

The issue now seems to be that users have no money to play with so have to let good players go. Whereas the AI never needs to let good players go and they get the good players in FA too. And whilst some AI will still do bad, it does mean that teams like the Broncos are now always going to be good. They don't have to let their excellent players go (unless they demand due to play time) and they also develop way better than users due to how good they are. I'd imagine we'll start seeing more AI teams like that as time goes on too.