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I was talking about my experience so you might not have the same experience. All I am saying is that the PR-Manager has help me merchandise sales.

if i have a 22000 seat stadium and i am in div 2,do i need a pr manager.if yes,wat level should he be

There are only 2 reasons why I would suggest higher than PR 1. The first would be to obtain a specialty which is the same influence at level 2 as it is at 7. The second reason would be as a risky investment to increase merchandising profits.

You are a Div 2 team which I guess would already increase your base merchandising profits by a lot. I am curious about a couple of things if you don't mind sharing. What are your merchandising profits now, and also what kind of impact have you observed since you hired Mantvilas Chovanas during all star week? If you have a lot of merchandising profits then it seems reasonable to me that a high level PR manager could possibly become profitable for you. The PR manager's influence is a mystery though, so it is just as possible that it will lose you a lot of money.

What is known, is that you would expect to see a greater benefit from a PR if you needed to stimulate ticket sales. Although you have open seats, you probably don't need anything to increase ticket sales, since you already have the 2nd best attendance in your league. I don't think it is possible to increase your sales far beyond the league average, or at least I have not seen this in any of the leagues I have inspected. Based on a quick glance at your standings I'm going to assume odds are against your promoting, but if you think you have a chance then I would hold off on making this decision until after playoffs.

Edit: Simplythebest, I think this also applies to your question although your situation is a bit different. Your arena is small, and you are already maxing it out. You don't need a PR manager to fill seats, I think I would focus on expanding arena. This is all just my opinion though of course.

Last edited by bonespawn at 9/5/2010 6:31:47 PM

my merchandise profit is 45k.second there is not much impact since i bought him.

ps:why is against odds for me to promote to div 1.pls explain me.tq

Again, no one can make a great prediction because there is just not enough info available. With that said... If you were to buy a PR 3 with close to 8k starting salary for a decent price, and assuming PR manager influence is calculated as a percentage of base merchandising profits, and assuming that my very small sample is a good representation of the range of increases, and assuming that there is not an increase cap, and assuming there are no other crazy things going on, I think it would be a worthwhile investment that you could profit from in as quickly as your second season.

The obvious problem with making a suggestion like this is the huge lack of data, and this could easily cost you a lot of money as well. One thing is for sure, in almost no way can I estimate this resulting in a profit during your first season. Unless you feel like taking a risk and experimenting for multiple seasons, I really don't recommend buying anything higher than a PR 2 for the specialty. I have no idea what to say about higher level PR managers influence because I haven't ever seen any data on them. The most I have seen are just people saying, "yeah they are nice and make me money" with no specific data to validate that or understand the actual effects.

I only assume that odds are against you promoting this season because according to your league standings you are currently 5th ranked overall. Odds are usually against a lower ranked team in the playoffs. Sorry, I tried to be clear that this was only an assumption based on your standing.

lolz.thanks for ur help.but u are sure right that pr manager help to sell more seats

lolz.thanks for ur help.but u are sure right that pr manager help to sell more seats

1.Merchadise profit may be related to PR lv, but the amount increase per week is too little compare to the salary increase
2. PR incrase attendence, especailly when u won the previous game. Think of it this way, if u keep winning, u attendence will increase a certain amount, the higher lv PR only make the increase goes faster. So if u have, many extra seats and keep winning, it is wise to go a better PR.
3. better PR = better fan survey as manual said
4. better PR allow u charge more, because the demand of ticket seems to increase
5. lv2 PR above have specailty that may be worth a few point in a home game

my recommendation
always buy specality
lv 2 for all people
lv3 only if u are winning and ur stadium is not full
lv4 only if u can raise the ticket prize and charge the people back
lv5+? need a very large stadium(over 300K attendence income) to make it cost effective

Just another thought: If you go with level 2 pr-managers it is a lot cheaper to change from time to time between the crowd involvement and the national appeal specialty which in my opinion is sometimes useful when you have some tough road games, for example...