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Originally Posted by Anyone
IMO, the market size should be unchangeable and simply a reflection of the number of fans who might support a team in the team's location.
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How would you properly model teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cubs, Cardinals, and Blue Jays then? They all have fan bases that are much greater than their home city's population base. Let's just look at 2 of those in particular. The Jays are reportedly hugely popular across nearly all of Canada, not just Toronto, even more so since the Expos left Montreal I'm sure. And
St. Louis is the 60th populous city in America (of course it depends on the metric you use, but whatever you use it probably used to be much higher as its population has nose-dived in the last few decades), yet I have to imagine the Cardinals are somewhere in the top 10 when it comes to fans. Based on population alone you could argue that a number of popular teams that have been in their respective cities for over a century, like the Reds, Pirates, Cardinals, and Indians, don't deserve to be in the major leagues anymore. Nah, market size needs to be dynamic otherwise you'd never be able to see some things in OOTP like fan bases grow despite population struggles which definitely do happen in real life.