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Originally Posted by nebradska
As has been pointed out numerous times before, Market Size doesn't directly mean "size of the city the team is based in." As an example in real life, the Yankees would have an Astronomical market, while the Mets would not, despite playing less than a 20 minute drive (not accounting for traffic) away from each other.
Likewise, in your case, with 11(!) teams based in one city, they're not all going to have the same market share. There are a number of things that could account for the disparities, primarily the team's popularity and marketability among the nations of your league.
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I guess the real life definition depends on whether market size is defined as the population in your designated area, which represents your potential; or the amount of interest your team generates in terms of attendance and other related metrics, which is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. I can see both sides of it.
I do, however, struggle with the idea that while the Yankees market is astronomical (which I agree with), the Mets market would be anything less than the next level down (which I think is "very big"). That would make some sense. But it wouldn't make any sense, to me anyway, for the Mets market to be "non-existent", which is what three of the clubs in one of the biggest cities in the world show as their market sizes.
I understand that I can change market size manually to suit my ends, and I also understand that the game does not rely on population alone to make the Market size determination, and I'm OK with both of those. I'm just saying, applying a market sizes of "non-existent" to teams in London, England, a city of 6 million even in 1900, just doesn't pass the smell test for me.
What this all comes down to is me just wanting to know whether anyone knows for sure how OOTP determines this, and there doesn't seem to be much consensus on it.