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Depending on the schedule I wouldn't even use Pr at all at the lower level. 5~10k a week for Nat. appeal etc. seems like a waste. add 5~10k in salary/quality to one of your starters probably helps you more...and/or add anotehr guy to depth chart to manage GS etc.

I use NA/CI at my level cuz 10kish for a boost to the entire team is very much worth it when your budget is 500k~1million a week (depending on the time of year)

At a very low level (where one wins pretty much on autopilot) I'd concur. But if a team plays a lot of tight games (and I seem to have hit a few OT games this season), the additional performance boost from the national appeal may be the difference between a road win and a road loss, and I know you know how overly important that is for attendance. I'd be fine with level 0 PR skills but the benefit of the NA specialty comes with the road wins, and the CI speciasey is more useful to try to squeeze out an important win than for any financial purpose.

well i went from making 87k in games to 250K$ when I upgrade my pr manager . The jesery sales went from 19k$ - 28 Kk$ respectivly. I upgraded my pr mamger last year as well as lower the seat cost now im selling near out all of my seats.

So i cant speak for the higher level manager or issues that be. I But i have seen success with it, my pr manager is making alot of money and so am i . Even with paying 30K a week to them im still pulling in 190K a week if not 150K. If i lower the pr manager as in fire them i would be making 300K a game that week, which is un natural for a small ball club from, my listening. Im also sitting on 2.5 mill and have spent 1.7 mill this season. @ seaosn ago i could afford a 3k player so pr manager and lowering seat cost helped me alot. Im not saying it the answer for him or nayone else but its working for me

So ill take what Im making while it still good lol

Last edited by Mr. Glass at 10/27/2012 1:46:41 PM

Prolly for DIII its right on the borderline for useful/not useful~

wut is the difference between homegame incomes after loss vs. after a win?? If its more than the salary, well than its worth it I suppose.

The other question is does the boost help your team as much/more than adding another player/higher salary player.

The difference is often in the 20-25k range and occasionally more, so in those cases it can be worthwhile (even factoring the 1-2k to purchase the PR guy and the ~5-6k for severance for the prior guy). I look at increasing the salary/skill on my players more as a long-term thing than a game-to-game issue, so this is really my best way to squeeze a little more out of the roster based on competition.

But definitely I agree with the hypothesis that there's no reason to go for higher level PR guys, especially for lower level teams.

I think my 5 PR guy with crowd appeal has been huge
I have struggled in my first go round at Div I (3-15)
but my attendance has hardly wavered at all
and at real big prices (18-55-180-1100)
off a few hundred from the first home game
and I was knocked out of the Cup earlier than last season after making the final.

Promotion bonus, won't be the case next season if your record doesn't improve

won't be in Div I any more
no way I stay and will take my time coming back
team wasn't quite ready
these teams have made a lot of money getting here

He promoted this season, after promoting attandence is always very high but drops a lot after the first season (after promoting I always had more than 100k more income from homegames)