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darkcloud4579 · 10-12-2009, 03:46 PM

You have to use the drop down to find the metropolitan area you're looking for in terms of population and TV market size. It's really not a particular super great tool for people looking for small communities, in that, it was really designed for people operating MLB-like leagues trying to get fairly realistic market data for the years. The TV market data is only real world, I couldn't go back and do it for the past, because well...it'd have been a lot. So, instead, the only thing that alters backwards is the population stuff.

But yeah, the only information/cities in the tool are metropolitan areas, so you usually have to search for the MSA that city is within in order to get a good gauge of what to do. Another idea is to perhaps use a percentage, so if a particular area is a 10, then make it a 5 to simulate the smaller area you've chosen.

Hope that helps a little bit.

10-12-2009, 03:46 PM	#6 (permalink)
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5,248 Blog Entries: 29 Thanks: 73 Thanked 66x in 37 posts	You have to use the drop down to find the metropolitan area you're looking for in terms of population and TV market size. It's really not a particular super great tool for people looking for small communities, in that, it was really designed for people operating MLB-like leagues trying to get fairly realistic market data for the years. The TV market data is only real world, I couldn't go back and do it for the past, because well...it'd have been a lot. So, instead, the only thing that alters backwards is the population stuff. But yeah, the only information/cities in the tool are metropolitan areas, so you usually have to search for the MSA that city is within in order to get a good gauge of what to do. Another idea is to perhaps use a percentage, so if a particular area is a 10, then make it a 5 to simulate the smaller area you've chosen. Hope that helps a little bit.