Question on Budgets

[servo75]

I am liking the new recruiting/budget system but there are some parts that are confusing me:

1. On the Staff page it says $15.00M total budget. I've so far spent $13.2M on staff and $0.05M on recruiting costs so that's $13.25 in total spending. But the budget for staff salaries says $14.00, I'm not sure where that number came from.
2. I got an email saying "the budget didn't quite cover our facilities needs and so facilities took a hit." Facilities are still A rated with estimated $1.75 for scouting+facilities. What does the email mean? Does this have something to do with the $1M budget difference above?
3. At the bottom of the staff page it says I can adjust the academics budget mix during staff signing but I'm in staff signing and can't see where to do that. And how does Academics fit into the budget mix? Is THAT the leftover $1M from staff budget? Where do I set academics budget and does that come out of scouting too like in the old version?

[brooks_piggott]

I need to remove the academics messaging. It's rolled into "facilities" now. If you have a really high facilities rating, like an A, you almost have to spend the full 5 million on facilities or the rating will drop.

The budget of 15 mil is probably your overall team budget, and the 14 mil is the maximum for coaches before saving at least 1 million for recruiting and 0 for facilities. That's the "budget", your actual spend will change as you progress through the season with recruiting spend and with coach salaries. The coach salaries should lock after the coach signing periods, but there may be stages in between seasons where the budget reflects the previous season.