Team Budget History

Here the league is keeping track of the yearly team budgets.  To monitor changes and issues year to year.  The plan is to monitor the budgets each season and adjust when needed by boosting to lower teams so they are not too far below the average and top teams.

There are technically no small market teams.  We currently all have equal market sizes (7) and owner spending (7).  This will also be monitored and corrected if changed by the game.

The factors between a high revenue team and low revenue team will be mostly winning.  Gate revenue is effected by winning and popular players.  Gate revenue means $$.  Low revenues will lower your budgets over time and high revenues will increase it.  The commish will monitor these budgets so they do not get out of hand again.  Fan loyalty and fan interest will also play apart.  Fan interest moves based on how well the team plays and the players who play on its team.  The last factor are the merchandising and media revenue.  Merchandising will increase and decrease based on the attendance.  Media revenue is based on market size, fan loyalty, and fan interest.  

So the best way to keep a financially strong team is to win, keep popular players, and keep the fans happy.  If this can be maintained, I believe we all will have a level playing field.


*** 2026 edit - going forward we will follow the 2026 procedure.  After the owner budgets are out.  I will find the average budget and round it up.  All teams will be changed manually to 128,000,000 the beginning of each off season.

The 2026 Max Budget is 128 mil.  The AVG budget at the start of the off season is - 

$127,583,333

All teams over the 128 mil budget will be reduced to 128 mil.  All teams under 128 mil will be bumped up to 128 mil.  There are 3 teams at the average and will stay at 128.

Rank	Team	2026	2026 New	Diff
1	Maine Shipwrights	$140,000,000	$128,000,000	$12,000,000	8.57%
2	Denver Sky Sox	$138,000,000	$128,000,000	$10,000,000	7.25%
3	Mississauga Spartans	$138,000,000	$128,000,000	$10,000,000	7.25%
4	Boston Rebels	$134,000,000	$128,000,000	$6,000,000	4.48%
5	Key West Pelicans	$134,000,000	$128,000,000	$6,000,000	4.48%
6	Charming Sons of Anarchy	$134,000,000	$128,000,000	$6,000,000	4.48%
7	Death Valley Assassins	$134,000,000	$128,000,000	$6,000,000	4.48%
8	Detroit Mustangs	$132,000,000	$128,000,000	$4,000,000	3.03%
9	Montreal Hitmen	$132,000,000	$128,000,000	$4,000,000	3.03%
10	Wisconsin Dells Ducks	$132,000,000	$128,000,000	$4,000,000	3.03%
11	Whitby Battalion	$130,000,000	$128,000,000	$2,000,000	1.54%
12	North Shore Honu	$128,000,000	$128,000,000	$0	0.00%
13	Hartford Harpoons	$128,000,000	$128,000,000	$0	0.00%
14	Las Vegas Blackjacks	$128,000,000	$128,000,000	$0	0.00%
15	Savannah Sand Gnats	$126,000,000	$128,000,000	($2,000,000)	-1.59%
16	Cleveland Barons	$126,000,000	$128,000,000	($2,000,000)	-1.59%
17	New York Knights	$124,000,000	$128,000,000	($4,000,000)	-3.23%
18	Chicago Thunder	$122,000,000	$128,000,000	($6,000,000)	-4.92%
19	Portland Rage	$122,000,000	$128,000,000	($6,000,000)	-4.92%
20	Asheville Smokies	$120,000,000	$128,000,000	($8,000,000)	-6.67%
21	South Florida Skeeters	$120,000,000	$128,000,000	($8,000,000)	-6.67%
22	Missoula Xplorers	$116,000,000	$128,000,000	($12,000,000)	-10.34%
23	Tacoma Titans	$112,000,000	$128,000,000	($16,000,000)	-14.29%
24	Thunder Bay Bombers	$112,000,000	$128,000,000	($16,000,000)	-14.29%

The 2027 budgets are out.  As per league discussions - we are not editing them and will let them ride after last season reset.