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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
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.
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.
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No, the economic fan base of the Yankees and Dodgers is quite different from the Angels and Mets. My observations over the decades is that Yankee and Dodger fans have a much higher median level of wealth than the Mets/Angels fans. And, if anything, Met and Angel fans have more loyalty than Yankee and Dodger fans because they HAVE TO in order to exist at all. Interest, for me, is the front-runner syndrome and the better teams gain that type of fan quite easily. I do not think OOTP models this behavior accurately at all. The casual fan switches teams with ease, particularly in NY and LA where there are far more of them.