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  • aukevin
    War Eagle, Go Braves!
    • Dec 2002
    • 14700

    #496
    Re: Owner Mode Tips

    Originally posted by shugknight
    Ok well I only have 2 million in the bank. What I figured on doing was saving my money for the next home series (I have a 3 team, 10 game homestand coming up) Then when I save up enough for a concession, most likely I'll buy the soda's, I'll buy that then just wait for the 33,000 seating upgrade.

    How about stores? I heard some stores sell well, some just suck..any ideas?
    I haven't gotten much out of the stores. I think they sell around 33% each game, I'm not sure if that is making much game or not. What's the 33K seating price, is that the $10 mil one? Just remember you don't lose money on the road games in the playoffs, so it is easy to get money. I wouldn't worry about stores, maybe get 2 sodas and 2 peanuts and save the rest for your stadium expansion. Hopefully by the World Series (if you make it there) you will have enough for the new stadium seats.

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    • Majingir
      Moderator
      • Apr 2005
      • 47669

      #497
      Re: Owner Mode Tips

      what should i do i forgot to but anything and im already halfway through the season and it took me a while to get here

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      • shugknight
        MVP
        • Oct 2004
        • 4585

        #498
        Re: Owner Mode Tips

        should i buy concessions and stores before or after a homestand?

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        • dkgojackets
          Banned
          • Mar 2005
          • 13816

          #499
          Re: Owner Mode Tips

          Originally posted by shugknight
          should i buy concessions and stores before or after a homestand?
          id do it after since im on normal and thats the only time i seem to have cash, but if you have it on easy with large budgets do it before

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          • EmpireWF
            Rookie
            • Feb 2003
            • 439

            #500
            Re: Owner Mode Tips

            I started up an Owner Mode game the other day with the Blue Jays with opening day rosters. The first things I did were to buy HR Celebrations, Pizza, some Walk up Prizes and some other little tidbit (I forget). Year 1, we did pretty good. We started out very competitive but fell apart just before the trade deadline thanks to injuries (Roy Halladay especially).

            Year 2, we stayed competitive the entire year. At one point during the Summer we were 15+ games over .500. The only problem was that Boston and the Yanks were also doing great. At the end of the year in September, we did terribly. Our pitching turned into something godawful and we missed the playoffs.

            Now just started Year 3 and we're still about $10 Million in the red. Obviously I'm not even close to get my head above water financially. I figure I would've made the playoffs last year and would start to get paid, but thanks to our meltdown, it didn't happen.

            So I take it, I'm pretty much screwed.
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            • TheDooner64
              Rookie
              • May 2005
              • 68

              #501
              Re: Owner Mode Tips

              Originally posted by EmpireWF
              I started up an Owner Mode game the other day with the Blue Jays with opening day rosters. The first things I did were to buy HR Celebrations, Pizza, some Walk up Prizes and some other little tidbit (I forget). Year 1, we did pretty good. We started out very competitive but fell apart just before the trade deadline thanks to injuries (Roy Halladay especially).

              Year 2, we stayed competitive the entire year. At one point during the Summer we were 15+ games over .500. The only problem was that Boston and the Yanks were also doing great. At the end of the year in September, we did terribly. Our pitching turned into something godawful and we missed the playoffs.

              Now just started Year 3 and we're still about $10 Million in the red. Obviously I'm not even close to get my head above water financially. I figure I would've made the playoffs last year and would start to get paid, but thanks to our meltdown, it didn't happen.

              So I take it, I'm pretty much screwed.
              my first 3 OM's sounded just like this haha.....yup screwed is the word

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              • shugknight
                MVP
                • Oct 2004
                • 4585

                #502
                Re: Owner Mode Tips

                Originally posted by EmpireWF
                I started up an Owner Mode game the other day with the Blue Jays with opening day rosters. The first things I did were to buy HR Celebrations, Pizza, some Walk up Prizes and some other little tidbit (I forget). Year 1, we did pretty good. We started out very competitive but fell apart just before the trade deadline thanks to injuries (Roy Halladay especially).

                Year 2, we stayed competitive the entire year. At one point during the Summer we were 15+ games over .500. The only problem was that Boston and the Yanks were also doing great. At the end of the year in September, we did terribly. Our pitching turned into something godawful and we missed the playoffs.

                Now just started Year 3 and we're still about $10 Million in the red. Obviously I'm not even close to get my head above water financially. I figure I would've made the playoffs last year and would start to get paid, but thanks to our meltdown, it didn't happen.

                So I take it, I'm pretty much screwed.

                Don't purchase any of the stadium upgrades till you have fully upgraded your park. They don't do anything for attendance. spend your money on concessions and seating upgrades. This will help you get out of red.

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                • oukurt
                  Rookie
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 11

                  #503
                  Re: Owner Mode Tips

                  I just read all 27 pages of this thread. If you are just arriving and are serious about getting your owner mode on, then read it all. Some good tips from numerous fellow owners here.

                  Just finished the initial road trip of year 1 with the Nats. Loving it.

                  If any of you are wanting some tips on young talent that is easy on your wallet, jot down a few of these guys. PM me if you want a list of all the 4 and 5 star future players (excel format).

                  My boys (fantasy draft average draft round)

                  C Mauer (3), T Greene (24) vs lefties
                  1B Morneau (9), Phelps (18) vs lefties
                  2B Weeks (10), Ginter (22) vs lefties
                  3B Wright (5)
                  SS Derksen (8), J Hernandez (14) vs lefties
                  LF Crawford (7)
                  CF Pierre (4)
                  RF Mo Pena (13)

                  SP Santana (1), Peavy (2), Beckett (5), Bonderman (10), Kazmir (12)

                  My MR and Closers are a bit weak with Izzy closing, Urbina Set up, Crain, Rincon and a couple other prospects as middle relievers.

                  This team is pretty cheap and can really hit. Pitching is a bit young, so there will be the occasional blow up. A team built for the future.

                  Hope this helped someone out. Again feel free to PM me if you have questions regarding your draft or which players to trade for. The other details of owner mode have been well covered in this thread.

                  Great work guys.
                  Last edited by oukurt; 05-30-2005, 02:01 AM.
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                  • Head Coach
                    Banned
                    • May 2005
                    • 601

                    #504
                    Re: Owner Mode Tips

                    Can some of these tips help with dynasty mode as well?

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                    • Husker_OS
                      Champs
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 21459

                      #505
                      Re: Owner Mode Tips

                      How in the world did that CNL guy make $$$ with the Royals sucking as much as they did ? Is he just full of crap or does he know something I don't ? I'm using the White Sox and I unloaded a ton of contract $$$ and I'm deep in the whole b/c of it. My media sponsorship is horrible. I think I'm projected to make 1.9 million(I'm in June).
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                      • doubldragon
                        Rookie
                        • Dec 2004
                        • 41

                        #506
                        Re: Owner Mode Tips

                        Okay, so I started OM just recently with the Nats and simmed the whole year. They sucked pretty bad and I had a busy offseason picking up young, cheap and promising players to build my team. But after simming I have found that I'm $5mil in the hole. That obviously sucks, but I like my current team and decided to try and fight out of the hole. Now the question is (after a couple months into the 2nd year) how do I do that? I'm in the hole so I can't run promotions. I have Ice Cream and Pretzels and Drinks and a Souvenir shop. Now I'm making about $50k/ home game but I'm still slipping further down. The Nats are making a charge now and have moved to 2 games behind first in the NL East. I imagine that will help, but will the money significantly improve post All-Star Break and how would you go about increasing revenue? I've done a good bit of tinkering but can't seem to make that much.

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                        • mike01
                          Banned
                          • Jul 2003
                          • 1180

                          #507
                          Re: Owner Mode Tips

                          Its all about selling out your games during the run for the post-season. Hopefully your team will be in it and you must sell out the games where you are playing a division opponent late in the season. You should rake in at least a million a game when these games come along. Hang in there.

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                          • zanner
                            Pro
                            • Feb 2005
                            • 686

                            #508
                            Re: Owner Mode Tips

                            first off, he started with a large budget so he could basically buy all his promotions and concessions that he needed at the start of the season.

                            Before my ps2 died, I played with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I didn't unload any of the money except Travis Lee and some low salary dude in a trade to Atlanta for Johnny Estrada...

                            I had the medium budget , it may be large - the $5million one.
                            I went through my calender and on at least every home series I had at least 1 promotion. On some 4 game series I would have 2 promotional days and on some series against a Game Impact of 1-4 I may put in 2 promotional days. I set up these days for like the first 2 months of the season. I tried to put the promos on a Mond-Wed day of the series. On friday and Weekends I would put some, but most of time I put promotions on other days because fridays and weekends usually had good attendance without em.

                            I also bought a Soda vendor , and one that sold peanuts and popcorn. Peanuts and Soda are probaly the two biggest sellers definitely out of what you can afford from get go.

                            As far as apparel I got the shop that sold Jackets, T-shirts and sweat shirts and another that sold pennants, baseballs, and cards.

                            With this I played and stayed around first place and my game impacts went up as a result just only after a month. I had enough money I bought Homerun celebrations just for the hell of it before the all star break. After all star break, game impacts really shoot up and you can make almost a million a game. This allowed me to buy the first seating upgrade and scoreboard upgrade before teh playoffs. and I ended the season with like 6 million dollars.

                            Then my playstation 2 broke.
                            But I am just telling you what worked for me. I kept a microsoft excel spreadsheet updated for all my home games - my lower ticket price, upper price, how many i sold of each, the revenue of the ticket sales. Then my soda, pop, pnut prices and jackets and tshirts, etc prices and how much I made each home game on those. The game impact and whether I ran a promotion or not and total revenue. I did this for like the first 2 months until I kinda got the hang of how to adjust for certain games, the prices and such.
                            Last edited by zanner; 06-23-2005, 09:46 AM.

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                            • JLK82
                              Rookie
                              • Mar 2004
                              • 55

                              #509
                              Re: Owner Mode Tips

                              I have to say that the tips in this thread are just awesome. Being a huge mvp fan I was reluctant to start another owner mode but I have now played 5 games and damn what a difference. I am averaging 17,000 fans a game at my stadium with the yankees. This is what I bought in the beginning.

                              1. 4 Concessions
                              2. 2 Stores
                              3. Promotions for the entire month of april for weak teams coming in

                              I can post screenshots of the prices I set for each store and concession. I have 500k in the bank and couldnt be happier.

                              I also set the ticket prices to 30 for lower deck and 15 for upper deck, which i will not change because i have had 5 straight games of 16-18 thousand fans in attendance. Hope this success story so far will give others the chance to make money
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                              • papasmurf
                                Rookie
                                • Oct 2003
                                • 206

                                #510
                                Re: Owner Mode Tips

                                i just started owner mode with the royals, im not simming anything. i just hate not having control of the outcome. yeah it will take me forever but so what, i plan on keeping this game for awhile.

                                im going with the real rosters for the royals for now. i won't do any trades unless offered so by the computer. i figure that won't be until midseason.

                                im not touching a thing until i get to my first homestand. the royals open on the road against detriot and at oakland. i'll buy soda, peanuts and popcorn and do my promotions. i think im going to set ticket prices at 40.00 and 20.00. might bump them up for the i-70 series and against the yankees.

                                im not doing any seating upgrades until after the season. in real life they wouldn't upgrade the seats during the season. i may change my mind about that but im not upgrading seats until im two or three months into the season.

                                i plan on buying two stores one that sells cards and pennants and another that sells t-shirts and jackets'etc.

                                i thought about adding a kid zone because as a parent i know you need to keep those shorties entertained.

                                i'll probably lose my *** because im looking at this from too realistic of a standpoint.

                                the cardinals are my favorite team but i figured it would be more fun to take a team that sucked and see what i could do with them.

                                this is more or less inspired by the royals owner mode thread on here. although i doubt im anywhere as successful as that guy has been. still , it will be fun to try. and the royals are really the only other team i like besides the cardinals and my dad lives 15-20 minutes from the sports complex.

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