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Originally Posted by Nino33
I feel the same way...
Things like "The GM gets more opportunities to negotiate TV or internet contracts, merchandising offers, side fence advertising etc" & "The GM could fix the price of games and food and drinks or merchandising articles during game days" make no sense to me.....these are not things that I think a GM (or any person related to the actual hockey playing really) would spend any time on at all
Has anyone ever heard of a GM negotiating TV contracts? Or determining the price of food and drink? It's certainly not something I've ever heard of a NA GM doing
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The idea is that lots of the new functionalities should be optional. Of course, in the foreground should be also farther the core of the game, negotiating player contracts, creating the lines, making trades and so on. Crosby, Malkin, McDavid, Stamkos, Ovechkin, Matthews and Co are the reason why we all are fallen in love with the game. I think that makes the identity of the game and of course also of FHM. But to manage a franchise is basically so much more. However, in real life the GM acts more like a CEO, means he makes the baselines, but rarely details. For the details there are many assistants for contractual or communicational matters like Assistant General Manager, Director of Media Services or Website Coordinator and so on. As I said everybody should be able to choose which aspect of the game everyone wants to deepen. As already now there is only GM or GM + Trainer. Maybe it is possible in the future that there are more modes like GM + taking over of several assistants to control a few more details. Maybe there is also a commissioner only mode in the future, so that you are exclusively concentrated to growing the game in general, further development of the league such as a more active control of the expansion process and so on. It is just as conceivable that at the beginning some functionalities can also be turned off like the possibility which leagues should simulate and which not. In my opinion the business side is a main factor in professional sports. You can like that or not, often the sport also suffers or fans will be disappointed (relocation) but it is also fascinating what is all done around the actual event to increase the interest and finally the revenues. Even junior or college hockey is becoming more and more a good source of income for lots of people. I imagine that an aspect like relocation shouldn’t as easy as take a button in the commissioner mode. It could be rather the result of mismanaging, shrinking of the fan base and so on. That means these aspects could be more a subject to certain (controllable) influences. Also the specifications by the owner are influenced by its character or his deep pockets. Some spend a lot of money to make childhood dreams come true, others see it more like a normal business and just want to make a lot of (more) money. Of course there are many shades in between. All this has a big influence on the final product. To take control of the GM position means to me that you have to develop a fine sense to unite all the (different) interests of the fans, the owner, the staff, the community, the player around with the given or self-generated resources, so that in the end the best possible result comes out. For this the GM should look for fellow contestants, means to hire assistants with promising skills. Next to the financial aspects like merchandising or TV contracts there are many more aspect which do not always have to be purely financial, promoting young talents, new types of analysis or camps and summer training for example.