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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
The selling of a club is certainly a long-standing part of real-life baseball. It would be relatively easy for a news article in OOTP to mention a sale price—based on Forbes' long-running annual club valuation reports, the price to purchase a club is roughly 2½ times its revenue. Factor in some variation (2–3 times the revenue) and it's done (other than the writing of such club sale articles, of course).
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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
How does someone who's dead sell their team? Like real life, when people die their holdings go to their estate. During probate, decisions are made as to what will happen with the assets. In most cases, debts/claims against the estate are settled and then the balance goes to whomever it was left to in the will, usually the family, so I don't see a problem with that other than they could use the word "Estate" instead of "Son" or "Family". A follow-up as to what happens to the team would be nice for sure.
On a side note, Teams do get sold in OOTP.
The only part that I'd be concerned with would be how much time and work would have to be put into follow ons about the Estate settlement, etc. I don't know but would it be worth the time and effort?
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Thanks for the responses guys. i think i didn't make a thorough enough comment on what i was observing.
i've started a dynasty. And to provide some background i created 7 eight-team leagues that are in an association. These were meant to be a precursor to true professional leagues. After simming from 2175 - 2206, i merged two of the leagues to form a professional league. While doing research for the teams i wanted to write about, i've noticed that all of the teams have passed from the original owner to i'll say a male relative. What i am observing is at some point OOTP decides that the an owner can no longer keep the team. (i am assuming death, i didn't save the news in my almanacs.) And it is changing the owner ship to another person with the same last name; if not a Jr.
i don't want to turn this into a business sim. And this is not a "make or break" feature. i just think it is odd that in the 28 teams i've checked so far, if the team changed ownership, it stayed in the family.
Again, i'm not asking for a lot of detail. Just that sometimes when OOTP decides to change ownership, it goes to a different family. That wouldn't even need a new article. Instead of (paraphrasing) "John Doe is no longer the owner, John Doe Jr. is the new owner." make it "John Doe is no longer the owner, John Smith is the new owner."