what an odd All-Star game, at least for the Big 8: The elected starters only played 14 minutes each, and the bench dominated the scoring with their 34 minutes of playing. i have no idea how to account for this...
That kind of sounds like one of the coaching options, CPDC or LCD, when the bench is better than the starters but nothing really indicates that kind of consistent skill gap that I can see.
off topic, but i just noticed my merchandising...
There may be something to unpack here. It takes a few weeks at the start of the season but I typically end up around 105-110k/wk. That sounds like a really big gap, but I'm spending 10-15k/wk on a lvl 4 PR guy and another 5k on a lvl 1 merchandise store, so let's say clearing @90k/wk after expenses. That's still possibly 33% more than your total.
My
pure speculation for the discrepancy in not necessarily order of importance:
Total team payroll
Percentage of payroll to USA players
Percentage of payroll to homegrown starters in league games
Percentage of payroll to homegrown players that play in league games
Lvl 1 Merch store (-5k + 10k? = 5k?)
Lvl 4 Pr guy
edit: also the stadium maybe IIRC boosts merch
A while back I saw a comment to the effect of "the PR guy doesn't really matter until you get to the NBBA.", but I've never looked for the data to back it up. It could be conventional wisdom for guys that are dominating their way to the top league, and still not be true for teams in other circumstances. I want to say that there was a season where I swapped low level PR guys frequently, maybe even multiple times a week, for their specialties, and that my anecdotal impression was that the lower level guys can't build or maintain season ticket holders even during a really successful season. I don't think people care about season ticket holders, and maybe they're right. I consider level 4 to be the most cost-efficient option, so if I am wasting 10k per week, I'm at least doing it efficiently.
Last edited by Harold Miner at 3/3/2022 8:39:40 PM