Salary Cap & Squad Balance in FM20

[mattmccready]

Does anyone implement a salary cap in FM20?

I’ve done it previously when it was easy with just Key, First Team, Squad/Backups, Youth...

But now we have star and important as well how do you split them up?

And how many Star, Important and first team players are recommended??

[FrazT]

Given how sensitive the players are to their playing time, it is sensible to promise them a status below what they ask for, so I try to have no stars, no more that about 4/5 regular starters and lots of squad players.  My only salary cap are the limits imposed by the board

[Tiger666]

I have self-imposed caps yes.

I only ever allow appearance fee, goal/clean sheet bonus and unused sub. Nothing else, ever.

 

 

Edited February 3, 2020 by Tiger666

[mattmccready]

3 minutes ago, Tiger666 said:

I have self-imposed caps yes.

I only ever allow appearance fee, goal/clean sheet bonus and unused sub. Nothing else, ever.

 

 

How do you divide up the areas to get the maximum wage?

[Tiger666]

6 minutes ago, mattmccready said:

How do you divide up the areas to get the maximum wage?

How do you mean? Appearance Fee is a fifth of basic wage. Goal/Clean Sheet is half of Appearance Fee, Unused Sub is half of Goal/Clean Sheet bonus. If that's what you mean.

Edited February 3, 2020 by Tiger666

[craigcwwe]

I never allow an appearance fee or unused sub fee. Also don't allow international cap bonus. 

Goal bonus and/or clean sheet bonus is fine. 

[Snorks]

4 hours ago, mattmccready said:

Does anyone implement a salary cap in FM20?

I’ve done it previously when it was easy with just Key, First Team, Squad/Backups, Youth...

But now we have star and important as well how do you split them up?

And how many Star, Important and first team players are recommended??

I used to keep a 30%/30%/30%/10% split fairly rigidly under the old squad status system, but still haven;t worked out one under the new one.

@Tiger666 thanks for sharing that, I might have a tinker and find something that works for me based on your figures.

I don;t have an issue with appearance fees, and other bonuses as I use them to bring the basic salary down. So with a Star Player/Regular Starter I look at the basic + appearance as his 'weekly wage'.

My old system was pretty simple - total of Key Player wages = no more than 30% of total wage budget. (No more than four Key Players) Total First Teamers another 30%, Backup/Rotation =30% and the rest, the youth and developing players shared the remainder (10%)

Am finding fm20 harder to balance a wage structure in.

[mattmccready]

6 hours ago, Snorks said:

I used to keep a 30%/30%/30%/10% split fairly rigidly under the old squad status system, but still haven;t worked out one under the new one.

@Tiger666 thanks for sharing that, I might have a tinker and find something that works for me based on your figures.

I don;t have an issue with appearance fees, and other bonuses as I use them to bring the basic salary down. So with a Star Player/Regular Starter I look at the basic + appearance as his 'weekly wage'.

My old system was pretty simple - total of Key Player wages = no more than 30% of total wage budget. (No more than four Key Players) Total First Teamers another 30%, Backup/Rotation =30% and the rest, the youth and developing players shared the remainder (10%)

Am finding fm20 harder to balance a wage structure in.

This is exactly what I used to do, the 30, 30, 30, 10 split. 
And then based the wages on 4 key players, 8 first team etc.....

[Ross Ingersoll]

this season just going by this in salary section in the finances tab, last version I did the 30,30,30 thing