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fan interests controls the attendance along with ticket price.
it may not have been 'only' the signings. recent history would be part of why it occurred too.
e.g. go edit all those players to be "nobodies" and keep fan interest the same and you'll get the same projection of ticket sales.
signing just 3-5 guys could bump it up 10 points or more, so that is a big deal going from ~60 to ~70 fan interest. you can recreate any context with comissioner mode on and compare. it is clockwork even though a multitude of combinations possible.
the predictions are usually spot on if you don't change prices throughout year or fan interest isn't skyrocketing/plumetting, of course. the other thing that can make them wonky is if you charge a significantly different price for season ticket sales. i notice if i mark these up high enough where you only selll 1/5-1/4th of capacity, the initial predictions for walk-up gate revenue are extremely low. it will underestimate by ~20M dollars and slowly fix its estimate by ~june or so.
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