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Old 07-19-2008, 07:17 PM   #1
Neags23
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Ticket Prices in Baseball Cathedrals vs. Small Town Parks

This is my idea for my current universe:

It's 1908 and the U.S. is rabid with baseball fans. The country has baseball fever.

I've got 12 cities, 6 in the north, 6 in the south. The 6 northern cities all have huge markets and have baseball colliseums. Gigantic stadiums that seat around 100k people. But the southern cities are very poor and have to build smaller stadiums, around 15k-20k, though they have no problem selling those out. The behemoth cities are in a different league and the north and south only play during the World Series, so the competition remains decent in both leagues, even if the southern league can't afford the higher priced players.

But here's the issue I'm running into. I set attendance to average about 80k around the league. This obviously makes the southern league sellout every game. Which is fine. However, I want them to realize that they sellout every game and raise their ticket prices. The average ticket price is $7, so even though the southern cities have fans packed into their stadiums every night, they have the same ticket price as the northern cities who average 10k to 20k empty seats every night (though they do sometimes sellout their 100k seat stadiums).

Is there a way to force the southern city teams to raise their ticket price to try to maximize their revenue? I tried setting their ticket prices for them in commish mode, but it just reverts back to what they want it to be. I could act as the GM for a team, set it and then sim that one game, but that seems more than tedious.

Suggestions?
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