There is a guide in the forums to answer a lot of general questions. You can find it here
(https://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...) I'll try to answer the ones you've asked, but the forum guide is probably a more reliable source. My info is from my experience, as well as reading posts, and from talking to other people as well, so might not be 100% reliable.
Home Grown PlayerI believe it says somewhere in the manual that your fans want to see locally produced talent do well. That means drafting or signing young players from your country and training them for the NT will have a bigger impact on jersey sales than signing a player.
Also signing a foreign player and developing them to their NT standard will have a positive effect, but not as much as if they were from your teams country.
Game time and performance will have an effect on jersey sales as well, but for example, I have seen that 3 of the top 6 jersey sales for my team are guys I inherited/drafted and trained myself. And they are consistently there unlike others - its usually like 3 of the top 5.
Overextension Tax and Training ExemptionThere is very little on overextension tax in the manual and I haven't seen a formula on it (as I haven't run into it yet because I've been concentrating on developing income pipelines, in particular the stadium, so I never have to think of it other than setting ticket prices), but here is my take on the rules and discussions I've had with a few others. If your running at a loss you might have more info about the exact formula on your economy page - look at 'Overextension Tax*' on the 'Baseline Weekly Economy' section of the page.
From the “The Economy” guide:
The training exemption is the difference between the current overall salaries and the combined overall salaries of all players when they were acquired.Basically, when you acquire the player is basically when you draft or sign them. The difference in salary mainly happens due to training them (or you have bought a player at the end of a season, and he was trained by the previous coach and doesn’t pop his salary until the off-season when salary is recalculated).
I’m going to ignore training exemption for a basic explanation of over-extension tax. Over-extension tax is basically a deterrent to running your team at a loss. It is an extra tax. If your average expenses are more than your average revenue you are considered to be over-extended and you will be
taxed 50% of the amount you are over extended by (I've heard people say this but never seen it myself so can't confirm 100%). If your 100k over you pay 50k extra in tax.
The training exemption is a way to offset this. If the difference between the salary of the players you have trained is 150k for example your exemption is used to offset your overextension and you pay 0 in tax, and you still have 50k of exemption left over so you can accommodate 50k extra in expenses without revenue increase without incurring overextension tax.
Its far more cost effective to train young players as younger players train quicker and this will have a bigger effect on the exemption. Remember you can draft a player for like 5k salary or less and train them up to like 250k. In that case an exemption on just one player is 245k. You can train multiple players easily so if you have saved enough money, you can conceivably run at a big loss for the period of time you have planned for before being charged overextension tax, (which is the deterrent to you running your team at a loss in the first place). You may also finish training a few players and be training more so theoretically you could run at a massive loss without incurring over-extension tax.
StaffAs regards staff, yes some are more important (trainer), some are needed for certain periods (youth trainer). No point in having a youth trainer if you aren't training someone who's 18/19
Last edited by Rockets at 09/30/2023 07:03:48