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Originally Posted by olivertheorem
Realistically speaking, serving as Team President/Owner, rather than GM, wouldn't leave the player with a whole lot to do. Most of OOTP is built around things the manager and GM do, so Markus would have to add a ton of stuff (AND have it work) to reasonably implement another role(s) like that. Just my 2 cents.
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I don't even know what you could add. Apart from the George Steinbrenners and Mark Cubans, owners are generally bankrolls that come attached to a personality (some good, some bad, most "meh"). ... Owners are almost necessary evils in the sports franchise world.
The GM job is where it's at. The GM makes the vast majority of the player personnel, coaching and administrative decisions and hires that make a sim like this worth playing. And the field manager makes most of the rest.
The career path of GM to team president is reasonable. (But again, what does the president do, really? Mostly boring financial-side stuff from a gaming point of view.) ... And I believe that Billy Beane is now a minority owner of the A's. But I suspect Beane would tell you the ownership stake is just the reward for all he's done as a GM; the pay that came for his work. I doubt it changed his day-to-day job much, if any.