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1998 Yankees · 10-03-2006, 07:30 PM

CardinalsFan, OOTP has always (well, in the year and a half that I've been around) been a bit mum about how financials are calculated. I'm only guessing (and replying to you since I see you've had none) that merchandising is related to team attendance which is in turn related to fan loyalty and interest, and market size. Obviously you will get more merchandising (assuming team stuff is sold only at the stadium) if you have more fans in the seats, so the higher those fan and market numbers, the higher the attendance and therefore the higher merchandising revenue received.

There, I at least bumped the thread again for you. I cannot be sure, but I would almost be willing to bet that no one is going to come up with a formula in response to your post. It's probably too complicated to put into an understandable formula in the first place. There have been calls for explaining the financial model in OOTP, and someone did do a decent job for OOTP5, which I used to some extent with 6.5, but I'm not sure how much of an authority that person was and whether his work would be at all applicable to OOTP2006.

10-03-2006, 07:30 PM	#3
1998 Yankees Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yankee Stadium, back in 1998. Posts: 8,645	CardinalsFan, OOTP has always (well, in the year and a half that I've been around) been a bit mum about how financials are calculated. I'm only guessing (and replying to you since I see you've had none) that merchandising is related to team attendance which is in turn related to fan loyalty and interest, and market size. Obviously you will get more merchandising (assuming team stuff is sold only at the stadium) if you have more fans in the seats, so the higher those fan and market numbers, the higher the attendance and therefore the higher merchandising revenue received. There, I at least bumped the thread again for you. I cannot be sure, but I would almost be willing to bet that no one is going to come up with a formula in response to your post. It's probably too complicated to put into an understandable formula in the first place. There have been calls for explaining the financial model in OOTP, and someone did do a decent job for OOTP5, which I used to some extent with 6.5, but I'm not sure how much of an authority that person was and whether his work would be at all applicable to OOTP2006.