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hmmmmm..........that what I was thinking. At least have all of my starters local then have the backups be foreign......

I think the best way to approach this is just treat the extra merchandise income like a reduction in salary when searching for new players. So if you are trying to decide between a native and non-native on the transfer list, for a USA D4 team I would deduct around 2k from the native player's salary and then compare them like normal.

The only difference is that other managers won't consider this deduction in salary when you sell the player (or more precisely the amount they will consider this deduction is small and proportional to country size).

It helps some - I've consistently had merchandise at around 125-150% of the league average with an American-focused roster (and now that my Canadian player is gone, it's an all-American club). On the other hand, a lot of that is also that there are several players who play regularly for me who have been on my roster for seasons.

While there is a financial benefit, where it might really be useful is teaching patience in TL dealings. If you can make yourself wait for only American players you're less likely to make a bad impulse buy on a guy who's not nearly as good. Set high standards for secondary skills and try to focus on solely Americans and you'll rarely end up buying someone and immediately regretting it.

Ok, so from the experience that i have it goes something like this:

- own nationality NT player (the weeks that he actually plays) bring around 15k in merchandise per player
- other nationality NT players are at around 10k
- own nationality non-NT players bring a few thousands of dollars depending on the players salary
- other nationality non-NT players bring little in terms of merchandise, again depending on the players salaries.

Most of this is in a way a bonus over the regular merchandise that for the most part depends on the players salaries.

Worth noting:

- Winning improves the merchandise quite a bit in my experience
- Low salary players (backups) make very little difference
- Drafted players bring even more merchandise but i cannot give any specifics since unfortunately my own drafted players are among my scrubs not my key players
- The amounts may slightly differ due to both team's and players success during the week

Btw i am at usually at least 50% over the league average in merchandise and i have at least 80% of own nationality players.

So overall, i would recommend to have players from your own nationality as your key players, if possible. But it's not worth significantly overpaying for them. I guess for large BB nations, where there are plenty of player suitable for your team it's a lot easier to make an own nationality team. For smaller BB nations it's a bit more difficult due to the lack of appropriate talent on the transfer market.

Last edited by Xsago at 8/26/2012 7:43:11 AM

You are partially right i was just stating my experience. I assumed that most NT players have similar salaries. I realized that it works as a percentage as well, a while ago, but the percentages are definitely not that high. According to your percentagesm my 130k NT players for example should bring 25-30k in merchandise bonuses each, but they dont. The percentages, as i see them, are more like 10% for own nationality players and around 7% for foreign nationality NT players. Can't comment on home grown players (drafted) since i've never had a drafted NT player so far. Also i am not sure the same hold for the U21 team, but it might. The bonuses are definitely much lower but so are the players salaries. I've had quite a few U21 players in the past, but the gain was not noticable. They were all lower salaried players though, so if the 10% is correct the gain would be something like 1-3k, which is close to the regular weekly change, that happens due to various success related reasons, anyway.

Well, i think nt players should bring more bonus than own drafted non nt players. My 2 starters are own draftess and i think they earn me around 25% of their salary in merchandize. I am always having atleast 75% higher merchandize than my league average. I have had more than twice bigger last season when i was tanking lol cause i had like 3 to 5 own draftess starting:)

Last edited by Gajus Julijus Cezaris at 8/27/2012 8:03:37 AM