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#84593	09/24/2021 12:24:43 pm	Feb 19th, 2052
amalric7 Joined: 01/20/2016 Posts: 2237 New York Lancers V.4	I would make your ballpark a little bit larger. 24-25k The extra revenue will help your finances and if you play over .500 should be a net positive. That's not strictly true. The best ballpark capacity for LLVI is 22,500. If you check back your schedule from last season you'll see roughly 17 home games (out of 100: 80 league and 20 cup) where you sold more than 22,500 tickets. That's also (roughly) 83 games where you DIDN'T sell that many tickets. Empty seats COST you money, so increasing your capacity when there's little real benefit will only hurt your finances, not help them. Also, your hitters have a lot of bat control, plate discipline and power, but there's not much in pure hitting - which is the most important attribute of all for hitters. I'm surprised you've hit .260 as regularly as you have. To me, you have too many old players. Old players cost money and there's no future in them - if they give you decent returns and you promote it just won't last. Your pitching isn't great - Brouwer, McLean? - and there's no upside there. There is almost no point to playing anyone over age-28 in LLVI, unless they're a stud that you can afford (like Wheeler, who is a 1B/3B type; Range is the most important defensive attribute in the OF). You want young, developing (or newly-developed) players who will continue to improve, and (ideally) a pipeline of replacements behind them - which of course is easier said than done. Sometimes you have to play the hand you're dealt. Updated Friday, September 24 2021 @ 12:27:13 pm PDT

#84602	09/24/2021 3:50:46 pm	Mar 1st, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	Thanks for the feedback it means a lot to me.

#84603	09/24/2021 4:04:02 pm	Mar 1st, 2052
Geech Joined: 01/12/2014 Posts: 545 San Luis Obispo Turtles IV.8	22,500 is pretty good ballpark figure. My quick analysis indicates you started turning a tiny profit with seat block 23,000-23,500 last season. That was basically your break even point. You lost money on blocks of seats above that. Ticket sales can be heavily influenced by team performance, so you can't count on them being the same year after year. So, this type of analysis should be taken with a grain of salt.

#84609	09/24/2021 4:59:26 pm	Mar 2nd, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	I have a question though. Have I been successful? Give me as much detail as you can.

#84610	09/24/2021 5:07:41 pm	Mar 2nd, 2052
Geech Joined: 01/12/2014 Posts: 545 San Luis Obispo Turtles IV.8	You really need to stabilize your finances this season. It's perhaps your most critical goal, since losses like you've had the past two seasons will cost you the team and that would definitely not be successful. Otherwise, this is a long term game of incremental improvement. Like Seca said, your run so far really isn't bad. There's no one measure of success, but I think you should work toward gradually improving your team in a sustainable fashion that allows you to promote to higher leagues.

#84611	09/24/2021 5:19:27 pm	Mar 2nd, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	That makes a lot of sense.

#84626	09/25/2021 2:37:39 pm	Mar 3rd, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	What are my chances of winning my division this season?

#84627	09/25/2021 2:48:11 pm	Mar 3rd, 2052
Jason2327 Joined: 09/02/2014 Posts: 718 Abilene Patriots III.2	Trust me you're doing pretty good. I bounced back and forth between V and VI for quute a few seasons, then stayed in V for 5/6 seasons, then up and down IV and V and now 4 seasons strictly in IV. It's a slow building and learning process

#84628	09/25/2021 3:07:06 pm	Mar 3rd, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	Thanks for the tips and to be honest you are successful in your own right.

#84656	09/27/2021 2:33:49 am	Mar 6th, 2052
realzachjr! Joined: 03/15/2021 Posts: 100 Inactive	I think I am going to rebuild my pitching staff because that is where a lot of the big contracts are and I need to build money up fast so I will be releasing a few pitchers and nobody is being spared.