New League Wide Financial Report

[Andrew]

http://ootp.oldredboat.com/news/html...al_report.html

Very cool. I'm going to be doing some work over the next couple weeks with financials. It's become clear that the way the game calculates merchandising revenue is flat out broken. Every team makes money and most make huge amounts of money, rendering the financial aspects useless.

Also, market size and fan loyalty seem to go up over time, but never go back down.

I think the best solution to this is to manually control market size, fan loyalty and merchandising revenue but I still have to work out the details.

[mahoney2]

No one shows upto our home games yet we're 5th in Media Rev. and 4th in merchandising. I think Pawtucket is going to start blacking out home games.

[Andrew]

Anyone have any ideas on how to calculate these values?

I was thinking of the following:

- market size fluctuates based on winning percentage over the previous 3 years. Consistently good teams will have their market size increase while consistently bad teams will have their market size shrink. Middle of the road teams will remain the same. Also, it would only be allowed to change once every 3 years.

- fan loyalty based on some combination of winning percentage and fan interest. It would also change every 3 years.

- merchandising revenue based on some combination of attendance, current year's winning percentage and market size. This would be calculated dynamically as the season progressed.