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Originally Posted by r0nster
I have suggested something along your lines as well a few years back. Many stadiums do get financial backing from parking and consessions. Parking money is an obvious part but the concessions is done in part by negotiating terms to allow a vender to come into stadium and sell their product.
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These are the sorts of things that the game already handles, albeit abstractly. Income from parking and concessions is directly correlated with attendance, so that income stream can be or is already factored into the ticket price. Even if the team contracts those services to a third party for a set price, that price typically is based on attendance. So, for example, if you want to raise the price of parking, just raise the ticket price.
If you're willing to accept that level of abstraction, then the game already handles about 80% of what a team earns and spends every year. About the only major items not covered are things like leases, taxes, interest, wages for off-the-field employees, insurance, legal costs, utilities, and non-sports revenues (like renting out the stadium for concerts). Those items, however, can also be factored into either the income or expenditure sides of the ledger. That may not be satisfactory to some people, who want to negotiate every contract down to the hot dog vendor who makes minimum wage plus tips. When compared with negotiating the contract of the star first baseman who makes $35 million per year, though, I think most people are content with a certain amount of abstraction.