Today's a big day for me again - the new federation season starts tonight in GW4 at 8PM GMT. It's always an anxious time, but this season should be easier as we don't have any new users - in the past we've had people still joining the gameworld at 8PM, and we desperately want to get them into a fed so we can get them some money and official competitions. After 8PM, of course, they start getting assigned to other gameworlds.
This time, all the noobs went to GW6 and GW7 anyway, so we've just had people swapping federation to contend with. Tonight will be a case of checking, double checking and triple checking all the league and cup assignments. Imagine leaving someone out of a league by accident... Once all the leagues and cups are set, there's the nervous wait for the fed money to get paid out. My DFA will be one of the top two for income this season, which is great.
Once the payout is complete, I can start assigning the money to competitions. Half of the money automatically goes to daily payments divided equally among all teams, usually about £20k per day. The rest is used for competitions; my Premiership will have a pot of around £13M, hopefully, with the winners taking close to £1M of that.
I always try to make sure that the weakest sides still get at least £250k - having a narrow spread in the money makes sure that the league remains competitive, and that we don't get 1 or 2 uber-teams running away with things, as you see in real life, and in FML when this isn't the case...
The teams will get a lump sum tonight - whatever the guaranteed minimum amount is (i.e. usually what you'd get for coming bottom), with a further payout at the end of the season dependent on final position.
While it's an exciting time for everyone else, it's a nailbiter for the mods. Don't mess up, don't mess up, don't...
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