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I think that even in bigger countries it is very difficult to find the perfect draftee to be from your own country. I think that is mainly the drafts that will increase the number of domestic players. This also means that if you want to stay competitive you can't make much of a profit in merchandise from having "country" players. I see no big problem with this. It is a tradeoff between having a slightly worse player but more attractive for your fans or a better player that sell few jerseys.

In real world it actually works pretty much like this in at least soccer. An English player sells more jerseys and especially attracts more people to the matches than a comparable abroad player. This is for sure a fact.

Ive gone from $107k to $85k.

This week my Lithuanian got called up. I added a prominent French guard to my roster. Have some guys featuring on the leaderboard. Win all games and lost 20%.

Now thats considerably more than 20k. So anyone want to have a stab at explaining that?

Awesome, having a terrible PR man finally shows in the merchandising (lower unstable numbers). Happy I didn't fire my lvl 5 yet.

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 9/22/2009 6:33:28 AM

In real world it actually works pretty much like this in at least soccer. An English player sells more jerseys and especially attracts more people to the matches than a comparable abroad player. This is for sure a fact.

I'm not sure about that. Maybe that first class domestic player sells more T-shirts than first class foreign player. But can’t be true that average domestic player sells more T-shirts than first class foreign player. But that is way how BB counts merchandise revenue.

on the other hand, at least in Finland in RL, there are no jerseys sold whatsoever..:) So maybe we should just be satisfied with any merchandise income.:)

I added a prominent French guard to my roster.

I'm guessing this had a part in it - not the whole thing, a part.

BB-mans made clear - adapt to this. No sense that you have best team all the world, no sense that you win double more time, no sense that your players win all statistics in all seasons, no sense how long your players are in your team, your fans don´t like you and your players and they buy jerseys of 20k sheep from 14. team because he is domestic. You must buy domestic player only. No Japanes players on your level? It is your problem that you are not from Spain ...

Thank you for your story, I know that I am not most disadvantaged now. :-)

Or that you're not interested in the explanations provided and just wish to complain.

Many things in this thread hasn't been explained enough, so I understand his frustration. And even if I have got immediate advantage by new merchandise, I don't agree the way it's calculated now. It seems that factors, which are involved in formula, are not well balanced.

Last edited by rwystyrk at 9/22/2009 10:39:40 AM

Obviously many things hasnt been explained, but i also have a lot of complains about merchandise and im waiting some weeks to see how is increasing or going down just to have more information before complaining a lot.

Surely, more time will give us more data. But I don't believe that teams which are now at $130k goes down to $100k and team at 90k goes up to $120k without any changes in roster. But we will see.

I think that we are pretty much in agreement. My major points are towards bik's constant willingness to not understand why there must be balancing factors so that there are no Chelsea, Manchester United and so on in BB. And what I mean then is simply that some teams would be able to continously buy the best players on the market and still be the richest clubs. It is of course such mechanism BB tries to stop.

I have no real opinion about if the merchandise issue is working or not in a clever and correct way. So to repeat myself is it mainly to argue against bik's attitude where he very much indicates that big should be bigger because big has managed to create a very advantegeous environment for generating money thanks to huge successes in league, BB and so on. Allowing that would mean that best coach got no chance whatsoever to beat bik even if they are a much better manager. I should also make it clear that I am not indicating that bik is not a great manager. I can't judge on that based on what I know but I see no reason to doubt that he does not deserve his successes.