(S31) PT 2 - Mistakenly Rich?

[xTri]

Whoa, as a professional football player, we are not getting paid enough for potentially getting brain damage 16 games every season. I personally am only paid 4 million a year and I think I should be getting paid 300m a year. So when I checked my bank account this morning in order to buy myself a Bugatti, I saw my salary deposit was 4m more than my usual pay. Hell yea, now I can afford 10 more Bugattis for my family! There is no way on earth would I tell my GM, they can just sell a few more season tickets to die hard fans. Now that I am committed to committing robbery against my own team and I want to ensure I keep my money. I know my team has an accounting team and it's a matter of time until they ask for the money back. I'm gonna have to assemble a team (a la Oceans 11) and infiltrate the office and wipe the transaction from all of their computers. If that works, then I will forever be 4 million dollars richer and then I can support my family with Bugattis. We will have the best cars in the neighbour hood and nobody will be able to match it at all. Thanks Arizona Outlaws!

[Net]

Well, in order to get to the correct word count, the only right answer is to spend it (sorry @RussDrivesTheBus and @ckroyal92) but with 4 mil, you can do a lot. First of all, I go and get a few boxes of Kraft Mac N' Cheese! Easy and I can still spend a lot more money. I also get a nice condo in San Jose, I haven't gotten a chance to buy one yet so that could help out extremely in the future. It has an 80-inch TV along with a PS5 and a PS3 for all the NCAA Games that you can't get on the new consoles. I'm a bit of a gamer so when I get some free time, I'll have to run a stream for the fans. Next, I FINALLY can get a few bus passes in KC just for day browsing, you never know what you will see in this great city. I'll do my best to save a lot of money too, rich people have money now but the wealthy save and save. It's how I'm gonna succeed in this league, and it's just a matter of time. But yes I'm spending that money, but for good reasons.

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[Skindog44]

PT 31-2

So I just signed a new contract with the Austin copperheads and they added an additional $4 million into my contract. well I believe that if I do not either report the mistake or try to give it back that that would be considered stealing from the organization that shows poor integrity. I would definitely tell the organization about the mistake so as to not reap any repercussions for the possible integrity violation. even though this is a professional sport organization I still feel that this is also a company that brings in revenue for a lot of employees and that if a mistake is made and more money is dropped into my bank account and I do not report it would be considered basically the same as stealing. now hypothetically they allow me to keep the money and I'm able to spend that money on something else I would probably buy a boat. and then invest the rest into the stock market. at this point my young career I have probably earned very little money and so being able to buy a boat that I would be able to take to area lakes within Texas maybe lake Houston which isn't too far from Austin I'd be able to enjoy the money and then also invest it for future gains.

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[LB3737]

Written option: You have just signed a contract with your new ISFL team, you check your bank balance and find out there is an extra 4 million in your bank account from that same contract. What do you do? Do you tell your GM, or do you go and spend the money? Why? If you keep the money what do you spend it on?

If I woke up and saw that my contract deposit was double what it was intended to be, words can not describe how entirely ecstatic I would be to be four million dollars richer in my international simulation football league bank account. The decision as to what to do with my newfound wealth would really he a tough one which would weigh on my conscience. Obviously telling my General Managers or someone else who is in an appropriate position of power would be the morally correct thing to do, but everyone knows how corruption can be these days, they would probably take it for themselves, so that is probably not what I would do. Next up on my list of options would be to save this wealth away, keeping it for future equipments and weekly training purchases. However, I do feel that the longer I kept this money in my account the higher the chance would be of me getting caught and punished. No, I think the best option for me to do with this money is the most obvious one. Gamble it, and try and turn it into more money. That is a true winners mentality right there, and I imagine is what Buffett would do.

[Modern_Duke]

What do I do with an extra $4 million? Well, I'm not sure; let's run through some of the options that come to mind:

Altruism: Pay it forward. Donate the extra money to charity. Which one? Doesn't matter, but do it anonymously. It's very important to let people know you donated anonymously. It lets them know you're not conceited and doing it for the right reasons.
Investments: Let my money work for me. Put some of it into high yield dividend stocks with good growth prospects. Then put some into some reliable blue-chip stocks. Maybe set up a bond ladder. Commodities. Real estate. Have to diversify.
Alternative Investments: Alright never mind forget all that boomer finance mumbo jumbo, I'm putting it all into same day expiry meme stock options and riding that to the moon or to the poor house. Or maybe something even more exciting like an NFT race horse (don't ask). Or just go to a casino and put it all on black, that's probably the most efficient way to do this.

But in actuality, I like to think I would be a good team player and give it back to the team. After all, that's money that the team could use to get better and get us that Ultimus.

[Thor]

Ken woke up on the morning after signing his first ISFL with the Orange County Otters to find his contract money had been deposited right away - and it seemed to be in full and then some! He was initially shocked, and immediately made phone calls to his agent, and subsequently his contract lawyer to check into the situation. Both advised Oath that the deposit amount was incorrect and unlikely to remain within his account for long. They advised Oath not to spend this money to ensure that his account did not end up with a negative balance, and he followed their advice to be extra safe. After having these discussions, Ken went to the Otters organisation front office to deliver news of his mispayment. Both Mori and Gragg were very understanding and though they want to pay Ken the big bucks, the damage the value deposited would do to their salary cap made sure that they couldn't allow him to keep the money, understandably so. All in all, Ken - like many of the players of the league is honest and not looking to take advantage of the system, therefore making this thought exercise both demanding and in my eyes pretty uninteresting. Ken has his whole career ahead of him to make money and giving the overpayment back was no issue at all.

[qWest]

Thanks to his extensive work as a media analyst and social media content creator, as well as his extensive roster of sponsors an brand partnerships including the now incredibly successful Naka Brand footwear and clothing division of Asics (see S25's PT #2: Endorsement Money), Tatsu Nakamura has very little reason to care much about an accidental four million dollars added onto his seasonal contract deposit. Nevertheless, Tatsu is nothing if not an opportunist and four million dollars can certainly go a lot further for someone else. Tatsu is torn regarding what to do with the money though. On one hand, he could deposit the money as an anonymous donation to his own charity, the Nakamura World Family Foundation, which he founded alongside his father (a famous retired MLB and NBL player) and the rest of his family to operate an support struggling families and communities across Japan and the US. That money could help build and maintain community centers, homes, and food banks all around the Yokohama, Los Angeles, and Phoenix areas. On the other hand, however, that money could potentially be funneled and laundered through some Yakuza connections that Nakamura has and used to bribe and blackmail the referees and powers that may be in the ISFL that have rigged a number of the early season games against him and the Outlaws. Alternatively, Nakamura could even use it to invest in and take part in cutting edge, new technologies in an attempt to rehabilitate and rejuvenate his body in order to better extend his career.

[Vorshayla]

PickSix is a lot of things, a thief is not one of them.  PickSix would immediately tell his GM about the mistake because secretly he hopes that it will prove to his GM that he has scruples and in turn will be given more clout with the team so that he can become a captain one day.  This of course will have the effect of increasing his value when he's a free agent so he can negotiate a contract worth more than the 4 million he would have been given in error.

PickSix is all about public image, he looks good and he is able to get more money in the long run which is what he's about.  Plus if the team has an extra 4 million lying around that they can afford to just give away willy nilly then for the next contract PickSix is gonna get his.  After all, money makes the world go round.

This action, would also make the fans love PickSix because he would leak it out that the team tried to give him an extra 4 million, but he flat out refused it because he wants to earn every dollar he gets.  Which means the fans will see him as a honest, and every day kind of person which in turn will get them to buy his jersey more, which means more money into PickSix's pocket anyway.  

The only right way to deal with this is to make more money than the 4 million you would have gotten if he had kept it, since now, he's getting massive publicity which in turn generates more income.


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[JPach]

I see the extra money in my account and I would definitely not tell my GM, that is 4 whole weeks of weekly training, not that I need the money. I hate the patriarchy and I find that money in this league is largely meaningless and pedantic. I don't know how much media actually engages people on this platform. I feel like I only read media if I get a tag in the article, in which case I am forced to read it because of my immensely huge ego. I'd love to see how much media people actually read because why are we paying out such large amounts for people to word vomit into a text box. People very rarely get rich off of league jobs, I am one of the few and to say that I was ever 'rich' is a bit of a stretch. I think at the peak of my wealth I was like $120m and the most I ever made in a season/offseason was $40m and I was doing 'alot' so I have never felt that our media payout was the most correct, but it is definitely the best way to get rich quick. So, fuck the tyrannical capitalists that run the state's media. I take this money and spend it on 4 weeks of weekly training and know that there is no shot the bank will ever notice. 

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