it would be great to add some kind of financial power to the game.
Could influence staff budget in all leagues (with player salary cap and those without) and player budgets per team in non-salary cap leagues.
How it could work:
a) add a financial power at city level (small market teams could have smaller budgets)
b) add owners as ‘staff’ to the game with financial power as rating
big market clubs with huge financial power owners should be able to spend more money for players and staff.
small market clubs with an good investor are still able to compete.
small market clubs with average owner must battle harder
we could add an average staff and player budget on league level.
average player budget at 5 Mio and in a big market with a very good owner could give you a budget of 7.5 Mio/year (+ x% for market and + x% for owner).
small market with average owner could be at 4 or 4.5, small market with bad owner at 3
successfull teams could get a small plus on their next seasons budget (in real life they will make more money from sponsors), teams that perform bad over last two seasons (out of playoffs, way below their season objective) could get a small minus for their next season budget.
Owner changes could give an additional level to the game, making former bad teams more competitive and shake up league structure a bit.