Potential Issue with Fan Interest Bump when signing FAs

Matteo · 06-20-2005, 01:27 AM

Here is the deal: I always test financials in my online league, and have a formula how much revenue I want the league to make and how much the variance should be. I do this by bumping fan interest at the start of the season. I set up a test league and cpu sim until opening day. Then I manually alter the fan interest and sim to see how much revenue the league is making.

However, when I clicked on the "edit" button and then fan interest, for those teams that had big FA signings the Fan Interest that showed (eg. 54) went to 52 after I hit the edit button. And this 52 was the fan interest before Free Agency.

My question is, something has to give. Which one does the cpu takes? Or is this on purpose so the AI knows how much he should "drop" the fan interest once that player is traded?

HolyCow98 · 06-20-2005, 01:46 AM

Just a guess....but I bet OOTP still knows what the teams true fan base is... than it uses the popularity scores of newly acquired talent to modify....which seems to be where the +1 to fan interest come from (generally along with a email for the teams PR director).

It probably works the same in reverse if you trade a popular player except the modifier becomes a -1.

So basically, OOTP still works the same as it did before in terms of fan interest and it going up and down based on on-the field performance and whether you are contending or not...to come up with a base fan interest (in your case 52)...but it has an extra step to include bonuses for popular players being added to the team..

My question is...in you case...it displayed 54...you clicked the edit button on...and it then displayed 52. When you edited it...did it add the +2 back on...or did/would you need to do that yourself.

Matteo · 06-20-2005, 10:03 PM

when I edited it, it would stay.

So 54 was 52 when I hit edit, and when I edited it to 60 it stayed 60 after I hit edit again.

makes sense?

Matteo · 07-02-2005, 01:05 PM

On the generated reports, if you go to the team roster html it shows the bumped fan interested, whereby the financial report shows the old fan interest!

06-20-2005, 01:27 AM	#1
Matteo Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 473	Potential Issue with Fan Interest Bump when signing FAs Here is the deal: I always test financials in my online league, and have a formula how much revenue I want the league to make and how much the variance should be. I do this by bumping fan interest at the start of the season. I set up a test league and cpu sim until opening day. Then I manually alter the fan interest and sim to see how much revenue the league is making. However, when I clicked on the "edit" button and then fan interest, for those teams that had big FA signings the Fan Interest that showed (eg. 54) went to 52 after I hit the edit button. And this 52 was the fan interest before Free Agency. My question is, something has to give. Which one does the cpu takes? Or is this on purpose so the AI knows how much he should "drop" the fan interest once that player is traded? __________________ ESPN The Show live chat during 2004 ALCS: Julie (Boston): Do you think Jeter does the fist pump everytime he disappoints a woman in bed? Or does he save it for when he's with A-Rod? Bill Simmons: Whoops - I didn't mean to post that. Really, I didn't.

06-20-2005, 01:46 AM	#2
HolyCow98 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Douglasville, GA Posts: 2,735	Just a guess....but I bet OOTP still knows what the teams true fan base is... than it uses the popularity scores of newly acquired talent to modify....which seems to be where the +1 to fan interest come from (generally along with a email for the teams PR director). It probably works the same in reverse if you trade a popular player except the modifier becomes a -1. So basically, OOTP still works the same as it did before in terms of fan interest and it going up and down based on on-the field performance and whether you are contending or not...to come up with a base fan interest (in your case 52)...but it has an extra step to include bonuses for popular players being added to the team.. My question is...in you case...it displayed 54...you clicked the edit button on...and it then displayed 52. When you edited it...did it add the +2 back on...or did/would you need to do that yourself. __________________ NPBL Enjoying its 60th season Georgia GM

06-20-2005, 10:03 PM	#3
Matteo Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 473	when I edited it, it would stay. So 54 was 52 when I hit edit, and when I edited it to 60 it stayed 60 after I hit edit again. makes sense? __________________ ESPN The Show live chat during 2004 ALCS: Julie (Boston): Do you think Jeter does the fist pump everytime he disappoints a woman in bed? Or does he save it for when he's with A-Rod? Bill Simmons: Whoops - I didn't mean to post that. Really, I didn't.

07-02-2005, 01:05 PM	#4
Matteo Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Posts: 473	On the generated reports, if you go to the team roster html it shows the bumped fan interested, whereby the financial report shows the old fan interest! __________________ ESPN The Show live chat during 2004 ALCS: Julie (Boston): Do you think Jeter does the fist pump everytime he disappoints a woman in bed? Or does he save it for when he's with A-Rod? Bill Simmons: Whoops - I didn't mean to post that. Really, I didn't.