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Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip
All well and good, except teams from the same market--Yankees/Mets, Dodgers/Angels--do not have the 'same' market size in reality.
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They do, from an economic perspective. That one of the clubs is not able to capitalize on the market as well as the other is a reflection of the operation of that club, and perhaps fan interest and/or fan loyalty.
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Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip
So I think there is much more to a market than simple population and income. Market size is created by a team's marketing campaign, both positively and negatively. You can also get a feel for this in some cities by comparing franchises in the different sports.
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I would assign those factors to fan interest and fan loyalty rather than market size. Leaving market size as a purely economic rating makes it easier, from a realism perspective, to placing clubs in cities, and ranking cities as potential homes for clubs of whatever classification level.