Madden 16 Thesis

This project was not as easy as I had originally thought it would be. I was interested in this project because I thought that it would be fun, easy, and a chance at learning more about a topic that I am thoroughly interested in. I was hoping that this project could show me, more in depth, what it is like to own a professional sports franchise. To find the answers to my questions I used the game Madden 16 and the Senior Vice President of the Columbus Blue Jackets front office to understand what goes into owning a sports franchise and to create a scenario where I am the owner of a sports franchise.

I started off by researching the costs of owning a franchise at school. Then at home I started the franchise mode on Madden 16 to simulate what it is like to own a sports franchise. After that I interviewed the Senior Vice President of the Columbus Blue Jackets front office, to get further insight on what goes on inside a sports franchise and also what other jobs there are in a sports franchise. Finally I gathered up all of my data and put it into a google slide. The challenges that I ran into while I was doing this project were the fact that I didn’t have many human resources that I could gather data from and the validity of madden, because after all it …show more content…
It impacted the way that I viewed sports franchises greatly. My project in my eyes was a success not because of how my virtual team did, but because of how my point of view changed. At first it was just two teams going up and down a court, field, or rink trying to score on each other to win, now it is so much more complex and detailed than before. At first I only expected to playing madden in my basement. I never thought that my project would include an interview with Greg Kirstein the Senior Vice President of the Blue Jackets front office. Also I didn’t expect my team to make it to the playoffs the first year under my leadership and make it past the first round of the