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Post by CSCommish on Mar 13, 2015 8:27:13 GMT -5
The current minimum/maximums are as follows:
- Fan Loyalty: Minimum setting of "Poor"
- Fan Interest: Minimum rating of "25"
- Local TV Deal: Minimum of $10M and a maximum of $15M
- National TV Deal: Minimum of $10M and a maximum of $25M
- Merchandising Revenue: Minimum of $5M and a maximum of $15M
I am considering setting a maximum Fan Interest rating of "90" at each Opening Day; I see no reason why teams should benefit from a perpetually high 90+ rating; after all, even rabid fans are not as rabid just as the season begins. Teams who use the game promotions to get up there should continue to do so to try to get to 100 fan rating by the end of the season. Only a few teams would be lowered to 90, and I think that it makes sense.
Furthermore, I am considering increasing the National TV deal minimum from $10M to $15M and decreasing the Merchandising maximum from $15M to $10M. This would essentially increase most of the lower-earning teams' bottom lines by up to 5M per season and bring down the high-earning merchandising teams to a slightly lower cap. The Yankees and Dodgers would be decreased by about $2.7M and the White Sox and Giants would be decreased by less than $1M. Hardly much really.
This should decrease the range between the potential extreme lower-earning and higher-earning teams by $10M, thereby promoting even better parity.
If there are no major complaints, I am considering putting these into effect this season prior to Opening Day.
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Post by CSCommish on Mar 13, 2015 8:54:57 GMT -5
I have also added a line item in the construction cost of expanding stadium seating:
Expanding up to 35,000 seats: $500 per seat.
This will lower construction cost quite a bit and is being put in place to hopefully entice / encourage expansions of small stadiums. I would like to see the Angels, Twins, Senators and Reds to take a hard look at considering these stadium seating expansions soon.
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Post by soonerfantu on Mar 13, 2015 8:56:55 GMT -5
Can we do this in stages? Or leave the max fan interest at something like 95? I'm okay with the ceiling on the revenue deals, but hitting the fan interest is going to be another dip to my team, one that will be harder to project. And fan interest is also the one things we can really control, with the promotions and not tanking.
For whatever reason, I've found the fan interest isn't growing much anyways. I've been at 91-92 for several seasons in a row now.
In short, I have no issues with the revenue stuff, but would rather not adjust the fan interest, or leave the cap at 95, OR wait a season. But it's not the end of the world.
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Post by CSCommish on Mar 13, 2015 9:08:04 GMT -5
Can we do this in stages? Or leave the max fan interest at something like 95? I'm okay with the ceiling on the revenue deals, but hitting the fan interest is going to be another dip to my team, one that will be harder to manage. For whatever reason, I've found the fan interest isn't growing much anyways. I've been at 91-92 for several seasons in a row now. In short, I have no issues with the revenue stuff, but would rather not adjust the fan interest, or leave the cap at 95, OR wait a season. But it's not the end of the world. If I had set the max to 95, yours wouldn't change lol. You probably need to just spend more money on promotions to get it higher; I've been "stuck" at 93 myself for a few seasons. I'll take it into consideration though. |
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Post by CSCommish on Mar 13, 2015 9:10:44 GMT -5
It seems like you understand my point, but the 90 is not a hard cap, it's a soft cap set only at Opening Day, it can fluctuate up to 100 during the course of the season.
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Post by soonerfantu on Mar 13, 2015 9:15:26 GMT -5
It seems like you understand my point, but the 90 is not a hard cap, it's a soft cap set only at Opening Day, it can fluctuate up to 100 during the course of the season. I gotcha, I don't see it as a major problem yet. My preference would be to wait until we have more teams getting to that 95-100 range, and then implementing something like you are discussing. But I'm not going to raise a stink about it. I think your way will keep teams from ever approaching 100 though, as I haven't seen fan interest raise more than a few points during any given season. Just my take. |
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Post by CSCommish on Mar 13, 2015 9:21:07 GMT -5
Sounds good sir.
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Post by Sha-Le Unique on Mar 13, 2015 17:16:58 GMT -5
Takes longer to gain fan interest after a certain point either in upper 80s or low 90s
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Post by Sha-Le Unique on Mar 13, 2015 17:17:39 GMT -5
In LBB, I'd be at 89 fan interest, do a promotion for a certain game, win the game and the fan interest didn't move, which was odd. But I guess that's just how it is.
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Post by bigmark on Apr 24, 2015 12:34:41 GMT -5
Can we rethink the 90 max fi this off season ...honestly a silly addition. I work tons of promoations to get there where i had it before it was put down til 90. i did promotions all season just to get back up to 94...and now this off season itll be put back down to 90.... it seems like a waste of time and money to even run promotions then.
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Post by soonerfantu on Apr 24, 2015 12:38:38 GMT -5
Can we rethink the 90 max fi this off season ...honestly a silly addition. I work tons of promoations to get there where i had it before it was put down til 90. i did promotions all season just to get back up to 94...and now this off season itll be put back down to 90.... it seems like a waste of time and money to even run promotions then. I kind of agree with this. And I don't think there is a big difference between 97 or so (where a lot of teams stall out at) and 90. So while I understand why Chris did this, not sure it has much of an affect on the bottom line. Maybe set 95 as the ceiling? Or no ceiling at all. Either way, I suppose. |
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Post by bigmark on Apr 24, 2015 12:59:45 GMT -5
exactly. I just wont run any promotions next season because its pointless I probably spent more money running then then gained in the extra attendance for the year just to be put back down to 90 this off season. ...once a team starts losing...that fan interest goes down a lot easier than it ever goes up
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Post by Sha-Le Unique on Apr 24, 2015 13:42:53 GMT -5
Can we rethink the 90 max fi this off season ...honestly a silly addition. I work tons of promoations to get there where i had it before it was put down til 90. i did promotions all season just to get back up to 94...and now this off season itll be put back down to 90.... it seems like a waste of time and money to even run promotions then. I kind of agree with this. And I don't think there is a big difference between 97 or so (where a lot of teams stall out at) and 90. So while I understand why Chris did this, not sure it has much of an affect on the bottom line. Maybe set 95 as the ceiling? Or no ceiling at all. Either way, I suppose. I agree with Jeremy. 95 is more reasonable than 90 for a start of season ceiling |
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Post by bigmark on Apr 25, 2015 10:54:11 GMT -5
I see my team is back down to 90..... we are just going to ignore a possible discussion on this?
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Post by CSCommish on Apr 25, 2015 11:44:55 GMT -5
I see my team is back down to 90..... we are just going to ignore a possible discussion on this? Make a poll! |
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Post by Darryl on Apr 25, 2015 12:00:20 GMT -5
I see my team is back down to 90..... we are just going to ignore a possible discussion on this? Make a poll! There ya go chief. |
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Post by bigmark on Apr 25, 2015 12:37:06 GMT -5
I'll make the poll but I can pretty much gaurantee itll be 50/50..... even tho its a silly rule that only affects the teams that are currently competing for playoffs. as with most sim leagues the teams not competing or lower will for against anything to bring down the teams competing just for the sake that they are not.
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Post by Sha-Le Unique on Apr 25, 2015 12:40:35 GMT -5
I'll make the poll but I can pretty much gaurantee itll be 50/50..... even tho its a silly rule that only affects the teams that are currently competing for playoffs. as with most sim leagues the teams not competing or lower will for against anything to bring down the teams competing just for the sake that they are not. Your brother already made the poll lol |
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Post by bigmark on Apr 25, 2015 12:42:10 GMT -5
damn it...i jsut made mine too haha
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Post by CSCommish on Apr 25, 2015 12:44:47 GMT -5
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Post by soonerfantu on Apr 25, 2015 14:37:32 GMT -5
For making a poll? I'ma go make lotsa polls then.  |
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