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Originally Posted by kidd_05_u2
Every example you posted suggests to me that fan interest is working well, lol.
You expect fan interest to spike permanently every time you sign a rental?
You think fan interest shouldn't decline when a superstar leaves your team, only because he asked for more money than you wanted to give him?
If fan interest interest worked the way you seem to want to, every team would reach maximum fan interest at some point.
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Tweaked would be the better phrase than "broken". As a long-time fan of one of the few teams that has never won a World Series, I can assure you fans of my team view a star leaving in two ways. 1) if the team is well below average payroll, they see the team as a cheapskate and the fans lose interest; 2) if the team has a high payroll and can't re-sign him, and it's because that player demands way above his market value, the fan interest doesn't hardly drop at all. In our league, we are required to make money or we can't function as a team and have to sell off our players just to break even. Owners aren't involved, so there's no outside cash flow other than profit-sharing.
Likewise, when a star player on the last year of their contract is added for a playoff run, fans KNOW the plan is not to re-sign that player. We've witnessed in our league an increase in fan interest of 2-3 with the addition of a superstar at the deadline, and then a drop of 8 points when he leaves in the offseason. That doesn't legitimately happen. Losing the 2-3 points I can see, but nothing more.