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115562.2 in reply to 115562.1
Date: 10/15/2009 1:07:55 PM
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I agree that the tournament winnings probably need a look (or at least confirmation that they are regularly reassessed), and you've laid out the issues well.

When weighing the costs and benefits, one aspect you didn't mention that can be a large factor in whether to stay in the cup (and definitely is for me) or not is enthusiasm... you can't TIE a scrimmage, of course.

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115562.3 in reply to 115562.1
Date: 10/15/2009 2:26:29 PM
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for me a higher cup income will just blow the prices faster to the top, and 50k ain't that bad especially for the small teams.

Ok for div one teams, that won't make that high output, to the weekly benefit but i think teams in the first league actually becomes to much which is part of the problem with the tm. A team out of div II-IV will get 33%-50% more benefit that weeks through a cup win, so i believe this is intressant for them.

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115562.4 in reply to 115562.1
Date: 10/15/2009 2:34:37 PM
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Don't forget that you only get extra merch. revenue for league leaders. Cup games don't matter. So that's again another incentive to play your best players in league games.

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115562.7 in reply to 115562.5
Date: 10/15/2009 7:29:56 PM
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Except that merchandising revenue also depends upon happy fans, and tournament success is one of the factors in making your fans happy.


Not sure what your point is since league success is also a factor in the fan survey?

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115562.9 in reply to 115562.7
Date: 10/16/2009 3:11:10 AM
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if you loose a cup game you can not correct this fault ;)

And you get pretty decent survey for the cup, for league you could even with one hard lose get a "normal" rating.

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115562.10 in reply to 115562.9
Date: 10/16/2009 8:48:07 AM
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if you loose a cup game you can not correct this fault ;)



You have to also wait a long time to correct a loss in a TV game or a game against a rival... And a full season to correct how you did last season. In my experience, you have to go pretty deep in the cup to get a good cup rating. By then, the season is half over anyways. And it gets reset again by the end of the season.

In short, the cup game is only 1 element in a pretty long fan survey. Also, the new merch changes did not change the fan survey. All they did was make league games more important.

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115562.11 in reply to 115562.10
Date: 10/16/2009 9:12:04 AM
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here you are right, that it is tuff at least for us to get a good cup rating, but till now i have an 3-3.5 ball rating there if i flew out i would have 1 Ball - and normally your rooster should be enough for two games if you had a rival, a tv and a hard cup game the decision is really hard but with view on merchandise in the other weeks i would go for the cup.

And maybe the cup is a bit more in favour for the small teams, because for them the 50k are a big extra income, you get up the survey faster etc.

For the premier league of a country where you earn over 200k a week, the benefit are small but in my eyes this is failure and not the cup income.