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What is the relationship between real life and this game?. Real life is real life and this game is this game. The real life argument is not good to me because there are a lot of aspects of the game that are totally irreal. This game is at a certain extend a way to put your real problems away. That´s how I see it. Playability is the main thing I search in this game. And all the changes in the game need to be balanced to maintain playability.

I think you have misunderstood something. The term "diminishing returns" means that the last seats are less valuable than the first. But this doesn't mean it is a bad investment. In some seasons even though it would be alot, they would benefit from there large arenas.

"Diminishing returns" in this context means that if you have a 20,000 seat arena, and you build 5,000 seats, and your opponent in the same division has a 10,000 seat arena and builds 5,000 seats, while your costs will be identical he is going to see a better return for his money because he can sell 15,000 seats, but you'll have difficulty selling 25,000. You may still get some return, but it won't be as efficient a transaction.

In any case, as you concede, owners who built large arenas have already received the benefit for which they paid. If they spent money to put 2,000 extra seats on a stadium when they knew they were only likely to sell 1,000, the bargain they made was to receive the return for 1,000 sold seats at the cost of building 2,000. That's exactly what they got. Why should they receive anything more?

The point about that we have to foresee what changes the BBs might add to the game engine is bad. It is a game this has its limitations. One might say that it was possible to foresee these changes and how the BBs dealt with them, then you should have built more seats in your arena and then sold them.

I agree that this is a little tenuous, but my basic point is that you can't count on the situation remaining completely static. Everyone knew there was a point at which building more seats was a waste of money because no matter how good your team was, you couldn't sell all the seats. The cutoff point will just be a little bit lower from now on than everyone assumed it was. The owners who have already built lots of seats, and are now preparing to sell them, are actually in the position you describe, only without having had to plan for anything.

But even if this change was totally unforeseeable, you still haven't addressed the fact that the owners who built seats have already received the revenue they expected to from them -- and if they haven't, my proposal would return the cost of the seats. You also haven't addressed the fact that the new TV contracts may very well replace any revenue lost through arena downsizing.

Last edited by crimedevil at 6/17/2009 9:35:33 PM

i get a replacement for it, in this case i want people with smaller arena to have an smaller tv contract ;)

With my arena i could manage even a demotion without selling to much of my stars, because i make nearly the same money as a top DIV II team then a medium Div. I team - if i demote now the extra marketing could be pretty low and maybe i have to half my team budget.

Owners with lower division teams will have smaller TV contracts, so have no fear, you mega-teams will continue to maintain your advantage. And again, the value of the TV contract isn't known to anyone at this point, so you don't know whether demotion would be more painful to you as a result of the new rule. It might be that demotion would scare away more fans than you think, and you being demoted to a lower division could easily increase the value of the TV contract there (assuming you're bringing all your star players).

The replacement i get is the money i get back if a reenginier my stadium, and this a poor one ;) But i don't like to get extra punishment through that, i like the change becuase it could be allowing to hold nt players in normal roosters but if you ask me as a club coach - this change is very bad for me and i wouldn't go back for it for just the price i was building the arena.

But you don't know that -- you're only speculating that the TV contract won't cover the lost revenue. Nor have you explained why reducing the size of your arena is bad for you, assuming the lost revenue makes it back to you in the form of a TV contract -- because as I've noted, you've already recouped revenue from building your seats. That's revenue that other teams which chose to buy players instead never earned. You got to use that revenue to buy and maintain a better team. So how are you in a worse position than they are by virtue of this change?

What is the relationship between real life and this game?. Real life is real life and this game is this game. The real life argument is not good to me because there are a lot of aspects of the game that are totally irreal. This game is at a certain extend a way to put your real problems away. That´s how I see it. Playability is the main thing I search in this game. And all the changes in the game need to be balanced to maintain playability.

BuzzerBeater is a basketball simulation, and simulations are modeled on the real world. But in any event, forget the real world. If I'm a team in USA Division IV, and I look and see that no other team in my division is selling more than 6,000 seats, how is it not a bad economic decision to build a 10,000 seat arena? I can't sell that many seats; I don't know for certain that I'm going to promote; and I could likely get a better return if I spent the money on players or staff. Why should I get bailed out for screwing up?

Keep in mind, too, that I'm not proposing that no money be returned. I just don't see why owners who have already gotten their money back in the form of ticket revenue should get a free pass on the costs of the seats they were benefiting from the whole time. So if you recently built seats, and haven't had a chance to earn your money back, you haven't gotten the bargain you paid for and you should receive your money back. Otherwise, no dice.

Last edited by crimedevil at 6/17/2009 9:30:26 PM

i get a replacement for it, in this case i want people with smaller arena to have an smaller tv contract ;)

With my arena i could manage even a demotion without selling to much of my stars, because i make nearly the same money as a top DIV II team then a medium Div. I team - if i demote now the extra marketing could be pretty low and maybe i have to half my team budget.

Owners with lower division teams will have smaller TV contracts, so have no fear, you mega-teams will continue to maintain your advantage. And again, the value of the TV contract isn't known to anyone at this point, so you don't know whether demotion would be more painful to you as a result of the new rule. It might be that demotion would scare away more fans than you think, and you being demoted to a lower division could easily increase the value of the TV contract there (assuming you're bringing all your star players).

the think it what i don't like with the system, is that our second leagues are unbalanced. Our II.1 is very strong, last year their was a cup finalist in it, and he demotes in the same season. This league is very deep in quality, especially in comparision to the other second leagues who have weaker teams at the end.

I don't think that my team will afffect the tv contract so much that it is equal how the other 15 teams look, i am pretty sure the other 15 teams would be 15 times more important then mine - and marketing sn't everything. So if i see at the end of the season, oh my got i will relegate, and normally this is a good point to rebuild the rooster. But in the II.1 i will have quite more income, so i can't do anything because i have no idea if i got nearly the same money, or less then actual.

The replacement i get is the money i get back if a reenginier my stadium, and this a poor one ;) But i don't like to get extra punishment through that, i like the change becuase it could be allowing to hold nt players in normal roosters but if you ask me as a club coach - this change is very bad for me and i wouldn't go back for it for just the price i was building the arena.

But you don't know that -- you're only speculating that the TV contract won't cover the lost revenue. Nor have you explained why reducing the size of your arena is bad for you, assuming the lost revenue makes it back to you in the form of a TV contract -- because as I've noted, you've already recouped revenue from building your seats. That's revenue that other teams which chose to buy players instead never earned. You got to use that revenue to buy and maintain a better team. So how are you in a worse position than they are by virtue of this change?

quite easy, because i am loosing an advance, which i get in sacrifying a bit succes without making me the hoped profit so that i am even with the money back guarantee, i will be in the same sitution then before.

I am not really scary to pay my bill in div. I, and if i got the problem i wasn't the only one - but i don't like to lost my advantage, and getting said that i earn an extra punishment for that. Even when i get punished for it already two times, through this change.

What is the relationship between real life and this game?. Real life is real life and this game is this game. The real life argument is not good to me because there are a lot of aspects of the game that are totally irreal. This game is at a certain extend a way to put your real problems away. That´s how I see it. Playability is the main thing I search in this game. And all the changes in the game need to be balanced to maintain playability.

BuzzerBeater is a basketball simulation, and simulations are modeled on the real world. But in any event, forget the real world. If I'm a team in USA Division IV, and I look and see that no other team in my division is selling more than 6,000 seats, how is it not a bad economic decision to build a 10,000 seat arena? I can't sell that many seats; I don't know for certain that I'm going to promote; and I could likely get a better return if I spent the money on players or staff. Why should I get bailed out for screwing up?

Keep in mind, too, that I'm not proposing that no money be returned. I just don't see why owners who have already gotten their money back in the form of ticket revenue should get a free pass on the costs of the seats they were benefiting from the whole time. So if you recently built seats, and haven't had a chance to earn your money back, you haven't gotten the bargain you paid for and you should receive your money back. Otherwise, no dice.

so you recommend, to forget about buying young talented players and training, because training is unrealistic and in future the draft would be complete players from the beginning?

Even that you could raise your arena, without building a totally new one, is unrealisitc, hey and wait you could decide much of the tactic and you are the manager - in my eyes nearly all important points aren't a simulation they are a game without paperwork etc.

If I'm a team in USA Division IV, and I look and see that no other team in my division is selling more than 6,000 seats, how is it not a bad economic decision to build a 10,000 seat arena? I can't sell that many seats; I don't know for certain that I'm going to promote; and I could likely get a better return if I spent the money on players or staff. Why should I get bailed out for screwing up?

you CAN sell that many seats, actually
I had a 10k arena when i was playing in IV, and it was everything but a bad economic decision

he is thinking that ticket prices must be constant ;)

he is thinking that ticket prices must be constant ;)

No, I'm not.

The point is made, so I'm not going to belabor it further. No one has responded to the point that the teams who built lots of seats have already seen reasonable returns and don't need to get money back for the change to be "fair." What the actual soft caps for seat sizes are in the divisions is irrelevant.

why you counting like that?

And it is going about the biggest arena if i understand the BB right, and then the time to react is huge and you don't return about the other disadvantages too.

Building a 20k arena wasn't a fault in div I, the return are really good, but i suppose that the changes won't get then to resize their arena - so you are off the point with the income.

Building a 20k arena wasn't a fault in div I, the return are really good, but i suppose that the changes won't get then to resize their arena - so you are off the point with the income.

You suppose, but you really have no idea. Wait and see what happens. Like I said, none of your posts explains why, having already earned money from the seats you built, you should get a full return of their value regardless of how much you earned.