As the game is now, i think it doesnt take strength of opponent (country rank) in to consideration on the fan survey which affects your attendence.
What makes people play around with the cup games is knowing that the main punishment for losing in the cup is the loss of cup revenue. You beat a bot by 20, the fans survey just sees win.
What would be nice is if an upset of a team ranked 3/4 spots ahead of you caused a spike in revenue.
It would also be nice if the fan survey reflected WHO you lost to and not only that you had a disappointing cup run.
The cup draw is random. Beating 6 5th division opponents is not as difficult as playing a top 5 team in your country to a 5 point loss.
When an underdog barely loses to a strong team, that should actually spike revenue in my opinion.
I think if the game were to reward close losses and punish blow outs,
1) you would have fewer teams tanking.
(you should not be making big money JUST because you are in the first division. if your point differential is worst in the league, you shouldnt make still be making 500k a game. Take that incentive out of the game with tanking teams getting big money and you would have teams fighting for the MONEY)
2) you would have underdog teams considering the CT more often.
(just because you feel you cant win, you should still have incentive to challenge. In too many leagues, the game is a mere formality. If i know playing the top team to within 10 point is considered more than a 50 point loss, im going to try. If they are the same, I like many others are thinking about training.)
When i play a team in the cup that says "managed my a computer player", it treats that win the same as a win over a top 5 team in the country.
The revenues for games should me smoother. on a gradual ascent, a gradual decent or more or less even. If you have a good team, revenues for he game should be more so determine by the home team, not the visitor. I could see slight decrease based on opponent, but if you are averaging 480k per game, on a weak game after a bad lost, you should at worst see 440/450.
On the other hand, if you just had a historic win or an upset, why shouldnt your revenue spike upwards for on game? If i beat the number 1 team in the country, why shouldnt my next home game set a record?
I see what Kitakyushu is trying to say.
We should be able to predict these gate receipts within 25k + or -. when its more than that, that make it hard to "manage" a team.
Somebody let me a hold a no. 2 pencil cause they testin' me.