Football Mogul Preview: "GM Mode"

8/16/2019

The most annoying part of Football Mogul is when you go to draft a player and you don't have enough cash to sign him. You often have to trade away picks for cash, just to limp through all 7 rounds of the draft. In addition to being annoying, the cash requirements aren't a realistic portrayal of today's NFL.

Football Mogul 20 eliminates these constraints, letting you focus entirely on football operations and staying under the salary cap. If you have a draft pick, the game ensures you always have enough money to sign him.

If you liked the old way of doing things, you can go into the Options Dialog and change from "General Manager Mode" back to "Owner Mode" (see below).

Game Modes

General Manager Mode: The default game mode, putting you in the role of General Manager, controlling football operations while the "owner" manages all revenues and ensures you have the funds to build a team. In this mode, the only limit on your personnel budget is the league salary cap.

Owner Mode: Gives control over the financial operations of your franchise, requiring you to set ticket prices and manage expenditures in order to maintain positive cash flow. In Owner Mode, you are required to maintain a positive level of cash in order to draft players, sign free agents and extend contracts.

	General Manager Mode	Owner Mode
Expenses	All teams have identical Medical Staff and Scouting Staff quality.	Medical Staff and Scouting Staff quality are determined by settings in the Expenses Dialog on the Budget Menu.
Ticket Prices	Ticket prices are set automatically to maximize revenue.	Ticket prices are set in the Tickets Dialog on the Budget Menu.
Draft Picks	Teams always have enough cash to sign draft picks.	Teams must have enough cash on hand to sign each draft pick.
Signing Bonuses	Teams always have enough cash to pay signing bonuses. (However, pro-rated signing bonuses are counted toward each team's Salary Cap status.)	Teams must have enough cash on hand to pay signing bonuses at the time players are signed.
Trades	Trades offers don't include cash.	Teams can add cash to trade offers. Team may trade players or draft picks for cash (and are often required to in order to have enough cash to sign draft picks).

18 Comments

Ted D

8/19/2019 10:49:32 am

Thanks for making this change - I never understood how I could have my finances pretty much in line, be $15M under the cap and lose $20-$30M dollars and not have cash to sign draft picks.
As stated above, just not how the NFL works. Trying to balance ticket costs, concessions, etc. is not what we really want to be doing anyway now is it? Thanks again!

Ed Hardiman

8/19/2019 03:40:06 pm

Are you ever going to make a baseball or football sports mogul compatible for ipad’s?

Jay

8/19/2019 05:54:51 pm

Are you going to have Football Mogul to output cards for tabletop games like APBA Football?

Carroll

8/19/2019 10:52:27 pm

Are you going to ever host leagues, or at least make so people can host leagues on your site? Maybe you could charge a small entry fee and give away prizes (like free copies of your (future) games.

8/19/2019 10:58:25 pm

Have you ever thought of upgrading the in game playing field. You could have the home team's name (and in the team's colors) in each end zone and the home team's helmet at midfield. You could also have both team's names (and in team colors) in both end zones (with your company logo at midfield) for the Super Bowl. I would bet all the people who play the game would like that.

Peter

8/21/2019 05:13:30 am

I am new to Football Mogul although have been aware of it for some time having signed up for the newsletter a long time ago so am always keeping up to date with how things are going. Financial and time constraints have prevented me from buying previously but I am keen to pick up the new version soon if I can find the money.

My question.. can you switch between these two modes between seasons or once you select one are you stuck with that unless you start again. Thanks.

Clay Dreslough link

8/21/2019 08:47:09 pm

Great question!

There's a dropdown box in the League Editor that lets you choose between "General Manager" and "GM Mode", so you can change at any time.

8/23/2019 06:36:31 pm

Many thanks for that swift response. That was what I was hoping was going to be implemented in the game.

Vern

8/21/2019 06:44:30 am

The new seasons and GM mode is awesome!

One cool update in a future edition may be to have a Super Bowl mode that allows us to play the actual Super Bowls only and take control of the team we want for that specific game. I think that would make the game complete!

Great work on all the improvements!

8/21/2019 03:37:46 pm

Are you talking about replaying the historical Super Bowls? The reason I ask is because the game has always allowed you to play the Super Bowls from the season you just completed, at least every version of the game I have had does, and I've been playing for well over a decade. There are 2 ways to play the Super Bowls for the season you just completed: 1 Get your team to the Super Bowl: 2 Go into the league editor and make yourself the owner for 1 of the teams playing in the Super Bowl for the season you just completed. Having an option for replaying the Historical Super Bowls (if that's what you're talking about) would be very cool.

Vern Firestone

8/21/2019 04:38:55 pm

Hi Carroll,

Yes, having an option to play the historical super bowls is what I meant, and possibly even having some "famous" games like the Ice Bowl and NFL championship games would be fun to have I think.

Vern

Clay link

8/21/2019 08:43:14 pm

There is also a new "Super Bowl" checkbox in the League Editor. This will automatically be turned off for the 1966 season (and later). But you can check it for the 1960-1965 seasons if you'd like to player a Super Bowl between the AFL and NFL before the real-life first Super Bowl .

(This checkbox won't do anything before 1960 when the AFL didn't exist. There will however always be an NFL title game in the 1950s between the NFL division winners.)

Scott

8/21/2019 04:43:59 pm

You have to lower the ages of the draft picks. 22,23, and 24 arent the ages of seniors or undergrads.

At most a kid should be 22.

8/22/2019 04:02:24 pm

Some of them might have been if they served in the military before going to college.

Troy

10/2/2019 03:16:41 am

A lot of draftees actually are 23, 24. More likely lower picks that redshirt/transfer/play as long as they can to boost their draft value if they're not on an NFL draft board.

cdcool@att.net

9/28/2019 11:52:16 am

Can you Watch games without it pausing on every play now?

10/2/2019 03:15:30 am

Awesome change. I'd always just give myself a ton of cash so I never had to go through this problem, and removed the salary cap, but now I can actually just manage the cap and not all of the other moderately annoying stuff

Shane Murray

2/23/2020 12:56:23 am

Does the newest version reflect player moves in each players profile? It's not a huge thing I guess but I like being able to see where players go via free agency and trade. Another thing I like that baseball mogul has is the news feed you can click on to see player movement and retirements and such. Has that been incorporated into the new version? Thanks!

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