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Old 08-05-2002, 06:55 PM   #2
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Re: Building Stadiums

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Originally posted by jag2k2
This would force the manager (me) to try and assemble a "value" team instead of a "glutton" team to better balance finance and winning. In essence we the players would have to shop for a winning team at a low payroll with the goal of winning games, keeping fans interested, and working towards a great new stadium.
Sounds like the way Belicheck runs the New England Patriots.

Anyways, I think that most guys (myself included) use their imagination and house rules. For example, I just completed and am playing in New Fenway Park. I assumed 50% public financing of a $350 million stadium project. I popped it in an amortization schedule (T-Value) using a 30 year payback at 5%. I increased the seating capacity to 57,000 and changed the dimensions all around (got rid of green monster). The yearly principal and interest comes to about 10.2 million. I will merely manually deduct this amount from my cash balance at the end of every season.

I got rid of the green monster because I think it did more bad than good. For example, Nomar hit a home run in Texas last night that would have been an off the wall single at Fenway.
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