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Originally posted by SSG Troyer
I like the idea of fixed national TV revenue and non-payroll based starting market sizes. Heck, I went through my league at the beginning and set my market sizes to a roughly 20-60-20 ratio, only to have the game totally destroy the balance after a decade. 50 years into it now, and there is one (1) Tiny market and 18 HUGE markets in a 36 team league. Near-fixed market size is needed badly, IMHO.
I believe revenue-sharing and luxury taxes should only be implemented as an option, as Scott says. I hate these things, too, and would not like to see them forced on me.
The player-card-readable Fan Favorite idea is much more elegant than mine. Kudos, and I hope something like that can be implemented.
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I don't really understand why the word 'market' is in place. Markets don't change quickly or because a team wins or loses.
'Fan Favorites' don't really effect ticket sales. 1996 when the Yankees had Tino Martinez instead of Don Mattingly I don't see where that changed ticket sales. Also, Safeco looks pretty full without Griffy and A-Rod in town. There are places where a player leaving happens at the same time that ticket sales fall , but it is normallly a situation like Cleveland's - where they are already on the downslide and losing one player just turns the fans off more. If people still thought the team was going to compete in the AL Central, they wouldn't stay away - now it's even more painfully obvious that they won't. Teams pretty much sell tickets based on their recent win/loss percentage and the prospects of their win/loss percentage in the future. Yes there have been a few players who transend this. Gretzky was always a draw, same as Jordan, and some might come out to see Bonds in some places, but those players are few and far behind, and I'm talking about ticket sales on the road anyway - which wouldn't really effect what we are talking about here.
Teams that were good in the mid 90's like Cleveland and Baltimore have seen smaller crowds in their beautiful stadiums because the teams are not as good and are boring. Even Fenway has softer ticket sales when the Red Sox are down - think around about 1991. The only team that seems to be able to not have a W/L record impact on ticket sales is the Cubs. Wrigley is just different then everywhere else.
I don't know how the ticket sales part of OOTP works, but to model real life, you would have a season ticket base - you'd collect that money up front. Then, you'd sell tickets through the season based on how the team was playing. I remember a night when the Hartford Whalers had walk up ticket sales in the single digits on a weeknight against Tampa. Also, to truly model revenues, actual game attendance would matter - as people that buy tickets and stay home don't park their cars or buy 7$ beers.