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CBL-Commish · 06-23-2006, 09:14 AM

The thing I've been wondering about is what's the most realistic way to divide up markets?

If you do like you're suggesting and make each of the boroughs a city, won't you be making teams in the smaller boroughs essentially Kansas Citys or Milwaukees? Staten Island has 450,000 people. The game doesn't know that there are 9,000,000 within a 20-mile radius, right? So a team based in Staten Island would have the same market as Austin, Texas. A team listed as being in New York would have a market similar to... I don't know... Detroit, or Minneapolis.

Wouldn't it be better to go the other way? Edit the database so that all the cities in your league reflect metropolitan area populations. That way you can make the team names Brooklyn, or Queens, or New York, but you can assign the city of New York to all of them. The game would then divide up the market based on however it does that (Success? Fan loyalty? A combination of things?).

The tough part would be doing some kind of proportioning for extended market areas like Baltimore-Washington or San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland. Like give each city a population of 2/3 the total for the area... or something like that. People in Fairfax won't be driving to Baltimore a lot, and people in Towson won't head down to RFK that often, but folks in Columbia, Bowie, or Laurel might go either way.

06-23-2006, 09:14 AM	#3
CBL-Commish All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,999	The thing I've been wondering about is what's the most realistic way to divide up markets? If you do like you're suggesting and make each of the boroughs a city, won't you be making teams in the smaller boroughs essentially Kansas Citys or Milwaukees? Staten Island has 450,000 people. The game doesn't know that there are 9,000,000 within a 20-mile radius, right? So a team based in Staten Island would have the same market as Austin, Texas. A team listed as being in New York would have a market similar to... I don't know... Detroit, or Minneapolis. Wouldn't it be better to go the other way? Edit the database so that all the cities in your league reflect metropolitan area populations. That way you can make the team names Brooklyn, or Queens, or New York, but you can assign the city of New York to all of them. The game would then divide up the market based on however it does that (Success? Fan loyalty? A combination of things?). The tough part would be doing some kind of proportioning for extended market areas like Baltimore-Washington or San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland. Like give each city a population of 2/3 the total for the area... or something like that. People in Fairfax won't be driving to Baltimore a lot, and people in Towson won't head down to RFK that often, but folks in Columbia, Bowie, or Laurel might go either way. __________________ For the best in O's news: Orioles' Hangout.com Last edited by CBL-Commish; 06-23-2006 at 09:18 AM.