Market size changes over time?

[jar2574]

In a historical year, do the market sizes change as they did in real life?

Detroit starts out with "tiny" in 1901. Will it grow as it did in real life. In the 1947 game I played I believe it was at "large."

Alternatively, Brooklyn's is "huge" in 1901, but I'm guessing it should shrink right before the move to L.A., when attendance shrunk in real life.

[ctorg]

Originally Posted by jar2574

In a historical year, do the market sizes change as they did in real life?

Detroit starts out with "tiny" in 1901. Will it grow as it did in real life. In the 1947 game I played I believe it was at "large."

Alternatively, Brooklyn's is "huge" in 1901, but I'm guessing it should shrink right before the move to L.A., when attendance shrunk in real life.

No, it doesn't, but that would be nice. Not everyone really agrees on what market size should be equated with. For instance, you say that market size should shrink for the Dodgers before they leave Brooklyn, but was it really that their market size shrank, or was it fan interest?

[jar2574]

Originally Posted by ctorg

No, it doesn't, but that would be nice. Not everyone really agrees on what market size should be equated with. For instance, you say that market size should shrink for the Dodgers before they leave Brooklyn, but was it really that their market size shrank, or was it fan interest?

Hmmm. That's a bummer.

I guess I'll have to change market size about once a decade or so, to coorespond to what the game would have given it if I had started it in that year.

Cities have grown and some have shrunk, and I'll want the game to reflect that.

I see what you mean about the Dodgers. I guess fan interest could have dried up, but they won so many pennants in the 50s that I figured the decrease in attendance would correlate to a decrease in market size (in game terms) rather than a decrease in fan interest. Fan interest seems connected to winning and retaining popular players (in the game) and the Dodgers did that in the 50s.

Really, since the only purpose of having market size is to determine available money within the league, market size would seem to be a relative factor. Kansas City is small relative to NYC, but would be large in a league full of smaller cities.