Originally posted by ScreamingWeasel
Call me slow, but it's beginning to dawn on me that just possibly your
skill at the game as an owner, a GM, a game planner, a leader.
Your football knowledge and the management of your team counts for waaaay
less than the number of nachos you can sell.
Welcome to the real world.
Actually, it's somewhat cyclical (Chicken and Egg type stuff). Having a bigger stadium allows you to fit more people. If your team sucks though, the people won't come. Having a good team brings in more BITS (butts in the seats). More BITS = more $ = better team makeup (hopefully) + stadium upgrades = More BITS...
If you spend all of your money on players, then you *might* have the best team in the league *this year*. Unfortunately, you'll have to play higher salaries next year and you won't be able to support them with your tiny stadium (hypothetically speaking). If you spend all of your money on stadium upgrades this year, your team won't be worth crap and nobody will come to your gigantic "coliseum of garbage". That leaves you with no money to sign new players for next season. It's definitely a give and take proposition.
The best teams usually have a good businessperson as the owner and people knowledgeable about football as GMs/Coordinators (occasionally, all of htese guys can be rolled into one, but it usually causes problems on one side or the other somewhere down the line). The businessperson understands that giving max salary + max bonus to a top level guy for a one year contract has the opportunity to increase the team level this year, but is a short term solution and could cripple the team in other areas. A good businessperson would prefer to spend the money adding on to their customer base by increase the # of seats and bringing in an up and coming star for less than the level 48 "moneydrain". Of course, if you can afford the level 48 "moneydrain", then obviously you bring them in if you have the chance.
I hope I didn't give away any "super secret" GLB information there.
