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what I'm about to tell is based on instinct only!!! be warned. ;)
(well it's a little based on the rules as well)

PR man: I don't think he will influence a lot on merchandising, in the rules it says that people want to buy winnig team's stuff. Merchandisisng probably is depending on the league and your wins, and MAYBE a little on PR, but I doubt it.

What I thing PR does is this: influence your fan base. this means you will sell more luxury boxes and courtside seats, these are the more steady numbers, and are in my opinion strongly influenced by the PR man, and a littel by your wins.
The other seats and bleachers are for the people who will come if you win, so the PR man will only be of little influence on them.

So in order to see the effect or the PR man, I think you should look at luxury boxes and courtside seats (given that you don't chance the ticket prizes!!!)
That's what I think, it could be horribly wrong though...
I do bleieve that if you want to build up a steady growing fanbase, you should have some degree of PR man, so it is more a long term investment. If you are only interested in short term, you might as well hire a level 1.
I truly can't tell if the long term plan will be more profitable though.

I can strengthen some of your theories a bit regarding revenues.
Last week I fired my 9 PR-Man as an experiment. I've started monitoring this value few weeks before, and noticed it keeps going up with my winning streak. last week (before the firing) it got to 35K$ in merchandise revenues, I've replaced him with a 1 PR-Man, and this week it got to 38K$.
This strengthens the hypothesis that merchandise revenue only depends on winning, since the growth was at the same rate as it was last week with the 9 PR-Man.

I can also say that the best way to notice the PR-Man influence on ticket sale would be to lose some games in a row, but none of us wants that :)

b.t.w. on my last two games losing streak the revenues went down to 20K, which was the reason I hired the 9 PR-Man. I believe I could achieve the same revues I get now with the 5 i've had back then.

Edited by yanivsag (12/24/2007 10:11:13 AM CET)

Last edited by yanivsag at 12/24/2007 10:11:13 AM

exactly what I think, however, in the long run, the more expensive seats do bring much more money/seat, so it is important to get them filled, therefor it might still be a good thing to have a high PR man.
We just don't know much about it at this time.
I hired myself a level 6 prety early after I started playing, I think I will stick around that level for a while.
Maybe later when more is known about the influence, I might change to either a higher, or a lower level... For now it's a good average. I guess I can't do much wrong with it.

I just finished translating the rules about the PR man section.
As it seems the PR man has influence on fans (so also on fanshop income), on attendance, and on ticketprices.

We already agreed that for fanshop and lower cost seats wins would weigh much heavier thatn the PR man, but the rules state he does influence it somehow.

as for the attendance we also came up with some ideas.

The new part here is that you probably can ask more money for your tickets if you have a higher level PR man. This is an important detail I didn't want to keep from you guys.
;)