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The "Economy" section of the "Game Manual" is your friend.

From the forum:

"If you go into debt, you will be charged a 5% penalty each week until you are positive again at the time of a economic update. If your account is below -$500,000 at the time of a weekly economic update, you are given two weeks to bring your account back above -$500,000. Failure to reach that mark will result in all of your players being put on the transfer list automatically with a starting price of $0. If, after your players are sold, you are still not above -$500,000, you will be fired as the manager at the next economic update. Debt and bankruptcy are the first items calculated in the economic update each week. "Available cash after bids" does not count as money for the purposes of computing bankruptcy or the 5% interest penalty on a negative balance. Players must sell prior to the weekly economic update for these credits to pull you out of bankruptcy."

--> It looks like you can be in the red for a few weeks before anything too drastic happens; am I reading this right?

"Overextension tax is applied to all teams that spend much more than they earn, on a weekly basis. The training exemption is the difference between the current overall salaries and the combined overall salaries of all players when they were acquired. Overextension Tax is not applied on the first and last economy update after the start of the season for all teams and for the first 4 weeks for new teams. "

--> Does anyone know what the overextension tax rate is, or have more information about this training exemption? Maybe there is another thread for this or something, or someone could explain by using an example?

Wow, this is perfect and really well laid out. Thank you. That's crazy to think about how much you save if you are over-extending but have the overextension in player salaries that you trained yourself.

In your instance, lets say you're overextended with your current team but are not paying the tax because of what you described. Lets say you add another player with a $30k salary. In what order does the cost basis get calculated? Like lets say you purchased all of your starters for $4k each (20k total for 5 players) and then you add this 6th player for 30k; do you pay the overextension tax now that you have that player on top of your already existing salaries or do you avoid it because your cost basis for your starters is only calculated at $20k total?

This rinse/repeat scenario that you outlined, do a lot of teams do this? How long do you cellar dwell? Also, for trainers, is the expense for an exceptional or world renowned coach worth the benefit?

You're clearly very knowledgeable about all of this so I hope its ok to be picking your brain.

To reframe my question around the overextension tax exemption; if $200k+ of your total player salaries are tax exempt and lets say that the additional of the 6th player brings your total salary to $230k, would your taxable player salary be more like $50k/week ($20k initial purchasing price for 5 starters + $30k for new player)? I guess I'm trying to ask if you can avoid the overextension tax by having a majority of your player salaries tied to players that you yourself trained up?

Good to know about the downfalls of tanking. helpful to know about the Gym levels/etc. Do you use any other arena upgrades like the Media Network or merchandise store or anything?

Whether you're knowledgeable or not, you've clearly done some things right to be in the position you're in now and I appreciate you sharing your experience with us.

I was worried about being able to sell Gas at $125K *before* he decided to drop THREE levels in jump shot today...

dang that sucks