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Originally Posted by chucksabr
Since this Financial issue is related to the Attendance issue, I would guess, I guess I will post this here.
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To be accurate, you need to look at both the gate revenue AND season ticket revenue to get the full picture for teams. So in your example, Bristol had overly high season ticket sales (2000+) so they only had a handful of fans extra each game, that's why they only cleared 82 pounds in gate receipts during the season. But they're at or near the top in season tickets, so those sales are dominating for you.
The next issue deals with actual attendance figures being off from your expected values. I think the problem there is mostly with teams' ticket prices. I've added extra "protection" so that setting your ticket prices too high would have a larger effect on your attendance - ie. if your team's settings currently support a 25$ ticket price, and you set them to 50$, your attendance will drop by more than half. It works great when you have leeway, but since your team's ticket prices are all in the 2-4 cent mark, if a team has an expected ticket price of 2 cents, and they set their ticket price to 3 cents, the game sees that as them trying to gouge their fans by 50%, so it ends up dropping their attendance to nearly half of what is expected. And since we generally round values to the penny, it can really throw things out of whack.
So that I think is likely why your minors attendance has cratered. A few teams have ticket prices set "too high", and it's blowing everything out of proportion. Also, I noticed a lot of teams have market sizes that are non-existant in the minors, and a lot of our attendance calculations are based on the league having an average market size that's, you know, average. Market sizes in-game are always used relative to the league the team is in, so having leagues that deviate from that can cause the numbers to vary.
Otherwise, I do notice in your D3 league that most teams have sold way more season tickets than expected. When did you change your league financial settings? They should be changed at the start of the off-season, either the day after the WS or at the latest when FAs file.
So a few potential recommendations for you:
-In the minor league, I would suggest setting the "fixed ticket price" flag, to have all teams charge the same. You could even do this for the other leagues as well, but the higher the baseline, the less crazy the problem would be (ie. with a baseline of 5 cents, then teams will almost always stay in the 4-6 cent range, and even if they "pick wrong", they should still be close enough to not cause attendance to crater)
-All financial changes and team moves need to be done before free agents file. This will also help ensure that you don't have "last year"'s financials affect this season's season ticket sales.
Such small financial numbers the game will always have a bit of trouble handling, and especially when you add in relegation and other financial changes year to year, we do our best, but you run into troubles.
Let me know if you have other questions or if I missed something while looking at this, but if you do the above before next season, I would expect the results to be closer to what you expect.