MP League Conversion Notes

[Ben E Lou]

Some info I posted at the CCFL that people in leagues that are converting might want to know:

• Fan Loyalty is also equalized as of the end of 2037. (or whatever year your league was in) There's therefore a small change in loyalty when I hit End Season based on the 2037 performance. All teams are 77 at the end-season.
• The teams that did best financially in 2037 get the top picks in the staff draft. This matters more than you might think because...
• Some staff members have attributes that will make them suited for completely different roles post-conversion. For example, in FOF2K7, my HC has outstanding ratings in the five things that matter for HC in FOF2K7 (motivation, discipline, off/def playcalling, injury avoidance). Of those, only motivation and discipline matter for the HC in FOF7. And he's *terrible* in the other attributes, so player development, young talent, and scouting ability convert as you might expect: he sucks in all of them. There's virtually no chance that he'll be ATL's head coach next year, and he probably won't be anyone's HC. He looks like he could be a solid coordinator or assistant coach. Anyway, the point of that is that I would expect MASS changes in staff in the first staff draft, so even with the equalization, the teams that had strong finances pre-conversion still get a significant "win" for their pre-conversion financial success because of drafting higher. Addendum to this: in both the CCFL and IHOF's initial staff drafts, more than half of the league's teams hired new Head Coaches.
• I strongly recommend that EVERYONE should start by hitting "recommend" on ticket prices post-conversion for that first offseason, and then tweak from there. To check this I found a team that increased significantly in population and average income in the equalization and quick-simmed through the first preseason. KC pre-conversion was 1.26M population and $10,000 average income. Post-conversion they are 2.02M population and $29,900 average income. If the financial engine were similar to that of FOF2K7, one would expect that leaving ticket prices as they were would bring a massive increase in attendance since the income level is three times as high and the population increased by more than 60% as well. However, if ticket prices are left static, KC's attendance drops from 44K to under 15K, and no one sits in any luxury boxes. You have all been warned.

Here's a visual of my aforementioned HC's conversion: