Ken Gilbert owns the Knoxville Warriors, a minor league baseball team in Tennessee. He wishes to move the Warriors
south, to either Mobile (Alabama) or Jackson (Mississippi). The
table below gives the factors that Gilbert thinks are important,
their weights, and the scores for Mobile and Jackson.
FACTOR WEIGHT MOBILE JACKSON
Incentive .4 80 60
Player satisfaction .3 20 50
Sports interest .2 40 90
Size of city .1 70 30
a) Which site should he select?
b) Jackson just raised its incentive package, and the new score is
75. Why doesn’t this impact your decision in part (a)?